On 3/16/2013 3:13 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
"For we must remember that the materialist philosophy (whether true or not)
is
certainly much more limiting than any religion. In one sense, of course, all
intelligent ideas are narrow. They cannot be broader than themselves. A
Christian is
only restricted in the same sense that an atheist is restricted. He cannot
think
Christianity false and continue to be a Christian; the atheist cannot think
atheism
false and continue to be an atheist.
But, as it happens, there is a very special sense in which materialism has
more
restrictions than spiritualism… The Christian is quite free to believe that
there is
a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the
universe,
but the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the
slightest
speck of spiritualism or miracle. The Christian admits that the universe is
manifold
and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. But the
materialist’s world is quite simple and solid… The materialist is sure that
history
has been simply and solely a chain of causation…"
Like most philosophers Chesterton did keep up on the science of his time and so writes as
though Lagrange was the last word.
Brent
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