(August 25, 2012 at 3:26 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I might be wrong, but it seems to me that the only (and I guess interconnected) ways to properly understand reality are experience, science and reason (I'm not sure if experience and science should be considered one or separate). Do you agree? Am I missing something? Am I being too simplistic?
My theist buddy keeps telling me I'm arrogant for thinking that all there is to knowing truth is experience, science, and reason. I asked him, what other way is there for coming to the truth of a matter? He said "divine revelation." But I explained to him that you have to use experience, science and reason to make sure the person giving the revelation is trustworthy and that what he says is actually true. So it just comes back to experience, science and reason.
I would mostly agree, and I am a Christian… though I would perhaps consider "science" to be more like experimentation using reason rather than the consensus of modern scientists. I would also point out that scientists are experts on commenting on science, and not metaphysics, which is more the domain of philosophy and which is another thing entirely.
"the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate" (1 Cor. 1:19)
