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Science has these two main target points: insight and know-how. Insight tries to understand. | Science has these two main target points: insight and know-how. Insight tries to understand. | ||
Know-How tries to find methods to use and employ the knowledge. | Know-How tries to find methods to use and employ the knowledge. | ||
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Where do we see spiritual questions in this framework? How to deal with faith, with ethics | Where do we see spiritual questions in this framework? How to deal with faith, with ethics | ||
and with the reality of God? Let us think deeper ... | and with the reality of God? Let us think deeper ... | ||
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What is the cause of it? Is it impossible that the spiritual world and the physical world as | What is the cause of it? Is it impossible that the spiritual world and the physical world as | ||
we know it interact? No, I do not say that. But I say that we have difficulties of proving | we know it interact? No, I do not say that. But I say that we have difficulties of proving | ||
- | the concept in the same way as we prove scientific concepts. What can be the reason? | + | the concept in the same way as we prove other scientific concepts. What can be the reason? |
To some extent this seems to be the effect of living beings. If you would not be able to observe, | To some extent this seems to be the effect of living beings. If you would not be able to observe, | ||
touch or hear some being, you would only be able to investigate it if it causes effects | touch or hear some being, you would only be able to investigate it if it causes effects | ||
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+ | Even if God is able to do what he wants, if he is the Lord, the most influential power of | ||
+ | the universe, if he hides himself, you will not be able to find him. You will not be able | ||
+ | to detect him. All your observations will go vain. He can play the cat-and-mouse game with us, | ||
+ | but we have no chance of ever catching him. | ||
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+ | Does that mean we should give up, as many scientists have given up today? No, we should not give | ||
+ | up. We should play the game in a reasonable way. The only reasonable step here is to address God in a | ||
+ | proper way, to get him to answer us. And he has promised to be open to that. When we come to him | ||
+ | in an appropriate way. It is a personal way. It is a way which starts to realize who he is and | ||
+ | what he is. His holiness and his justice are a constitutive part of this process. There is much | ||
+ | to learn and to explore here, for scientists, and everyone else as well. | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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