When I was a student I revered the sciences, and mocked religion and I felt rather grand doing that. Now that I take a closer look at the matter, I am surprised to find how many dignitaries of the Church take seriously the superficial arguments I and my friends once used, and how ready they are to reduce their faith accordingly. In this they treat the sciences as if they, to, formed a Church, only a Church of earlier times and with a more, primitive philosophy when one still believed in absolutely certain results. A look at the history of the sciences, however, shows a very different picture.
P. Feyerbend, Farewell to Reason, Verso, 1987, p. 264
(edit: added author name)
#1 by Jun on November 21, 2010 – 12:14 am
That’s a rather confusingly worded quote. Where are the cliffe notes?
#2 by Geoff on November 21, 2010 – 12:28 am
Jun,
The book is “Farewell to Reason” by Paul Feyerbend, published by Verso.
I dont see how it is confusing. In essence he says that there is a problem with Christianity, in that some reduce it to the level of some superficial arguments leveled by science, whom themselves make science a form of religion.
This happened also in the early church, in regards to philosophy, and now we are struggling to remove pagan philosophical constructs from our belief system.
#3 by Confused on November 21, 2010 – 5:15 pm
It’s confusing because it’s unattributed.
#4 by Geoff on November 21, 2010 – 6:27 pm
ahh,,, my bad
I accidentally edited the author’s name out of what I had written prior to it (Deleted the statement..)