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The Church offers an unspoken faith that is greater than the faith in God:
The Unspoken Faith
“Omnipotence” and “omniscience” are doctrines that demand a belief that is more profound than the belief in God. They demand that the world be seen as a domain of independent objects that identify themselves. This is the unspoken faith of the Church, a faith that is greater than the faith in God. It is also the unspoken faith of Science. It has a name.
The shared, primal faith of Church and Science grounds all their practices and pronouncements on God, existence, belief, doctrine, and theory. In philosophy this doctrine is called transcendental realism, and was a term originally coined by Kant. Another word for transcendental realism - the idea that objects are independent and have their own identity (such as, light of 640nm really is red), is animism.
Arguments between Church and Science are only squabbles over what objects are in the world. Yet their fundamental beliefs about the way the world is built, the grand animism of transcendental realism, is unshaken, and everywhere goes unchallenged.
The Church would rather alter its conception of God than jettison its belief in grand animism, the belief in independent, identity-bearing objects. It is this unspoken faith that needs to be challenged. Only then can the Church jettison its problematic relationships with Science.
The Unspoken Faith
“Omnipotence” and “omniscience” are doctrines that demand a belief that is more profound than the belief in God. They demand that the world be seen as a domain of independent objects that identify themselves. This is the unspoken faith of the Church, a faith that is greater than the faith in God. It is also the unspoken faith of Science. It has a name.
The shared, primal faith of Church and Science grounds all their practices and pronouncements on God, existence, belief, doctrine, and theory. In philosophy this doctrine is called transcendental realism, and was a term originally coined by Kant. Another word for transcendental realism - the idea that objects are independent and have their own identity (such as, light of 640nm really is red), is animism.
Arguments between Church and Science are only squabbles over what objects are in the world. Yet their fundamental beliefs about the way the world is built, the grand animism of transcendental realism, is unshaken, and everywhere goes unchallenged.
The Church would rather alter its conception of God than jettison its belief in grand animism, the belief in independent, identity-bearing objects. It is this unspoken faith that needs to be challenged. Only then can the Church jettison its problematic relationships with Science.