tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14247942.post112214684909270423..comments2023-08-10T05:32:21.163-04:00Comments on An Examined Life: CorrigendumVitae Scrutatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12808120163472036743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14247942.post-1122297768865210702005-07-25T09:22:00.000-04:002005-07-25T09:22:00.000-04:00Scott:You're right, of course; you didn't write th...Scott:<BR/><BR/>You're right, of course; you didn't write that Cardinal Schönborn doesn't know what he's talking about. But my inexactitude did serve its purpose of drawing you out on this topic. By the time I read your original post, it was too old to comment on.<BR/><BR/>I'm not yet sure what to think of Fr. Oakes's <A HREF="http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0104/correspondence-oakes.html" REL="nofollow">point</A> -- or rather, Msgr. Knox's point -- about distinguishing design and order or teleology. But then, I don't read "design" and think "irreducible complexity at the cellular level." If the Cardinal does think that, then maybe (though I don't know enough to say for sure on my own authority) he doesn't know what he's talking about.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14850575419673561383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14247942.post-1122167352677778272005-07-23T21:09:00.000-04:002005-07-23T21:09:00.000-04:00Hi MarionThanks for the compliment! I'm a little r...Hi Marion<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the compliment! I'm a little relieved to find that somebody besides me actually reads the thing.<BR/><BR/>I think that I agree with you about empiricism. I think that in the various sciences it is the perspective of choice, but that science can never give us the full picture since not everything in the universe is empirically testable.<BR/><BR/>If you're familiar at all with the jargon of the philosophy of science, I think that the attitude I find most congenial is one of "anti-realism", a view that holds that scientific theories are interpretations of reality rather than exhaustively complete representations of reality. Nothing that ignores the theological can claim to be exhaustively complete, in my view.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for reading!Vitae Scrutatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12808120163472036743noreply@blogger.com