Article: Two kinds of knowledge: religious and scientific faiths.(THEOLOGY 101)(Column)

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Both religion and science begin with a kind of faith; the scientist's belief in an orderly universe is like religious trust. Einstein made this clear: "I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.... The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious sentiment." This relates to the "intuition" Einstein credits with being a formative influence on his development of the relativity theories. So: science must assume order but cannot explain where it came from. If a scientist tries, he becomes a ...

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