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The rationality of faith : Comments
By Peter Sellick, published 16/1/2008Our focus can no longer be on the survival of the Church, but on how the Church, weak as it is, can work towards the survival of society.
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-- It is also true that contemporary scientific and other academic disciplines adopt traditions. The idea of a good thesis is challenge propositions, while hopefully not stepping altogether outside of the discipline. Herein, was it Dirac (?) who had to express an radical aletnative idea as a footnote to a text across eighteen versions of the text, before he felt he could rightfully place the idea in body of the text? That is, he felt right all along, but was aware of the protocols of advancing a disciple, slowly.
Contrarily, in undergraduate, masters and PhD studies in the past, I have been burnt crossing a borrowed, proven contruct from one discipline to another: Typically, the behavioural sciences or cultural-anthropology into business studies. Here, one can demonstrate that a construct in known, [tentatively] proved and [tentatively] accepted by another legitimate body of academia; yet, the other discipline -in focus- does not listen. Relatedly, sinologist, Joseph Needham, calculated it can take two hundred years to fuse disciplines.
In the above vein, I find that current adherentst Newtonian classical mechanical style science, resist say quantum mechanics; where things are a bit fuzzy