I Also Think We Need To Maintain

I Also Think We Need To Maintain Distinctions - The Doctrine Of Creation Is Different From A Scientific Cosmology, And We Should Resist The Temptation, Which Sometimes Scientists Give In To, To Try To Assimilate The Concepts Of Theology To The Concepts Of Science.

The Test Of A Theory Is Its Ability To Cope With All The Relevant Phenomena, Not Its A Priori 'reasonableness'. The Latter Would Have Proved A Poor Guide In The Development Of Science, Which Often Makes Progress By Its Encounter With The Totally Unexpected And Initially Extremely Puzzling.

Bottom Up Thinkers Try To Start From Experience And Move From Experience To Understanding. They Don't Start With Certain General Principles They Think Beforehand Are Likely To Be True; They Just Hope To Find Out What Reality Is Like.

Quantum Theory Also Tells Us That The World Is Not Simply Objective; Somehow It's Something More Subtle Than That. In Some Sense It Is Veiled From Us, But It Has A Structure That We Can Understand.

If The Experience Of Science Teaches Anything, It's That The World Is Very Strange And Surprising. The Many Revolutions In Science Have Certainly Shown That.