11. The moving line between philosophy, theology and science
Just
seen a talk, at @HayFestival, by the incredibly informing and entertaining
Marcus du Sautoy, presenting his ‘What we cannot know’ book (a must read, BTW). Listening to him,
I cannot fail to realise the connection between the idea of God and our lack of
knowledge in certain areas, only to hear from Marcus that the British
Theologian, Herbert McCabe, already stated, centuries ago, that ‘To assert the
existence of God is to claim that there is an unanswered question about the
Universe’. After reminding us of the perhaps unjustly infamous known/unknown
classification by Donald Rumsfeld, another jewel was unearthed, Roger Penrose’s
‘The Emperor’s New Mind’. It is fascinating to see how the problems which were
traditionally believed to belong in the realm of philosophy and theology are
now coming within the reach of science, as humankind slowly evolves towards
God-like traits (more on this claim later)
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