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Religion and Scientific Method (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
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Religion and Scientific Method (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1977)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 10
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I With the immense success of modem science it has generally become
accepted that the only way to acquire knowledge is by the use of
the method uniformly practiced by working scientists. Consequently,
the credibility of the claims of religion, which seem to be based
on belief in revelation, tradition, authority and the like, have
been considerably shaken. In the face of the serious threat
provided by the ascendancy of modem scientific method ology,
religious thinkers have adopted various defensive attitudes. Some
have retreated into an extreme position where Theism is completely
safe from any attack on it by the use of empirical methods of
inquiry, maintaining that contrary to appearances, religion makes
no factual claims whatsoever. To be religious, they say, is to
subscribe to a certain value system; it is to adopt a set of
practices and a given attitude to the meaning and purpose of life
without making any assertions about this or that empirical feature
of the universe. Others wishing to remain more faithful to what
religion traditionally meant throughout the ages, agree that Theism
does make factual claims but that these are so radically different
from the kind of claims made by science that it is only right that
they should be established by a separate method on its own. In
matters of faith reliance on widely entrenched tradition and sacred
authority is not objectionable according to some."
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