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Purpose
We are now at a crossroads, Scientific Materialism has lost its foundations and is now drifting on the high seas. Yet we have been told, that western science was built upon this rock. What will be the support of science in this tossing sea of postmodern relativism? Are any of the competitors of materialism worth re-examining? Or are we destined to be deluged with pseudo-science, parapsychology, New Age animism and sophistry? What can we rescue from the shipwreck, and what can we glean from Scripture that will provide a solid base for 21st century science?
Real scientists, though only the famous ones have been able to say so publically, have been grappling with this question since QM was invented in 1930. Everyone asks “How do we know what we know?” Epistemology is key. Rather than sorting through the arcania of QM interpretations, let us work the other direction, from a distinctly Christian perspective.
This question might be restated, “What is Truth?” We must abandon the false security of “scientific objectivity” and grapple with the world in the same manner as Augustine. We must humble ourselves and our search for knowledge accepting that we are part of some greater purpose, some greater cause. The great scientists of the past all managed this feat, but our best exemplar remains Augustine.