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When people do not understand the limits of science, a new
cult arises
By Y. Stuart Nam
May 23, 2011
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1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven
2
Ibid.
3
See generally, Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, Bantam Books, 2010.
4
Ibid.
5
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html
6
Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, HarperCollins, 2007, see the addendum titled “P.S.”
7
Ibid at p. 13 of the addendum titled “P.S.”
8
http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/jp2heavn.htm
9
Ibid.
10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force
11
See my book review at http://www.scribd.com/doc/37980802/Stephen-Hawking-s-The-Grand-Design-A-Book-Review or
at my blog (http://stuartnam.com/2010/09/23/stephen-hawkings-the-grand-design-grand-science-or-reckless-prophecy/)
12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science (italics are mine).
13
See generally, Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Routledge, 2007
14
Ibid.
15
Ibid.
16
See the note 4.
17
Henry H. Bauer, Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method, University of Illinois Press, 1992, at p. 10.
18
I use ‘pragmatic’ in the sense conceptualized by the general tradition of the American philosophical pragmatism.
19
See generally, Edward Grant, The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages, Cambridge University Press,
1996.
20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_religious_views
21
Ibid.
22
See generally as a supporting reference, Michael Allen Gilespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity, the University of
Chicago Press, 2008; the idea, largely my own, would need a book form to explicate.
23
Both Buddha and the Confucius refused to engage into purely speculative or metaphysical thinking which they thought
had no bearing on real human life.
24
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
25
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a Kindle version, see the author’s preface.
26
Mary Midgley, Science as Salvation, Routledge, first published 1992, a Kindle edition 2002, at p. 12 of 239.
27
See Heisenberg at p. 32.