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If the primary commandment behind all others is, "Thou shalt be a truth-seeker" (because without that, no moral or spiritual task can succeed), then epistemology is a necessary study for all of us because we need to know how to find the truth.
Epistemology (e-pis-te-mo-lo-gy -- yes, sorry, six syllables long), is the study of "how we know what we know", or at least what we think we know. It is a fairly abstract subject, but it need not be as esoteric as sometimes made out to be. Most of it is common sense. (Read more...)
The Epistemology Library is logically tied to the Science Library (see also definition of 'science') because science (from the Latin 'scio' = 'I know', is about how to find out the truth about a given area (physics, chemistry, history, logic, mathematics, theology, etc.). Science (as understood and practiced in Western culture) is an intellectual and moral discipline for finding the truth.
For Evolution/Creation issues, see
Science and Intelligent Design Libraries
See also
Apologetics Library,
"Truth is the strategy" section
** The Authority
of the Bible in a Sophisticated Age -- On the Meaning of 'Faith' -
the Biblical answer to the Epistemological problem. For a first glimpse of a
definition of 'faith' and a version of "infallibility" which
can stand up with credibility, see especially
Part A, "The Faithful Bible" and Part .
Or see Chapter I,
"The Way, the Truth, & the Life -- How do We Know?" in
Homosexuality: Good & Right
in the Eyes of God? Sample pages and study guide available.
** What is "Science"??? -- E. Fox
** What is Truth? - the definition of 'truth'
** Putting Truth ahead of God -- E. Fox
** What is Faith? - the definition of 'faith'
** How Do We Know the Truth About God?
** Infallibility & Intellectual Integrity... E. Fox
** A Brief History of Religion vs. Science -- on the Science Page E. Fox
** Spiritual Warfare in our Pseudo-Scientific Culture - A Day with the Clergy in Episcopal Diocese of Quincy --
** Critique of the Bush 2004 re-election -- and a look ahead -- E. Fox
The Wisdom of Crowds - a rather extraordinary discovery on wisdom, very much favoring home-schooling.
Anthony Flew, world-class philosophical atheist, becomes deist -- an interview with Gary Habermas.
Doublethink & the Church (& the West...) -- The Revs. Paul Zahl and W. B. Two superb articles on the necessary foundations of truth for any coherent civilization.
Kurt Goedel was a brilliant mathematician who is alleged to
prove that mathematics is incomplete, that, for example, it cannot be proved
that 2 + 2 = 4. Mathematicians have generally accepted that conclusion --
which cuts the bottom right out from under the certainty of most of what we call
science. But science goes on anyhow because it appears to work so well.
Go here to read
Goedel's mathematical version of the Ontological Argument for God. Be
ready for some heavy stuff. You will be led to further links for
completing parts of the article.
This has serious implications for
science as a whole and its relation to theology, etc. For more on science
and theology, visit Personality,
Empiricism, & God (PEG) as it takes shape on the Road to Emmaus.
PEG will be dealing with this uncertainty in coming chapters.
Is Revelation Propositional? Does God reveal Himself in words or in actions and events only...? by Canon D.B. Knox, B.A., B.D., M.Th., D.Phil. Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney, Australia. Test your wits on this one. Does Knox have a good argument, or would you side with The Authority of the Bible in a Scientific Age?
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