The Unknowable
Tonight I had an interesting conversation on the nature of knowledge. I was conversing with a physicist, a very brilliant one at that, and I was trying to explain the uncertain nature of anything historical. I believe that reality does exist. People really live and they really do things. I also believe, however, that reality in the writing of history is a ideal that historians try to approach but never fully achieve. History is not quantifiable and is always open to interpretation. My physicist friend responded that even science is generally based on inductive reasoning. They can produce the math that justifies why something physical has always worked in the past, but they can never guarantee that physical phenomenon will occur the same in the future. So is there any such thing as Truth? Yes. Can I define it? Not yet. It brings me much peace to know that in all of the unknowable nature of the universe there is a God that we can know and who will manifest himself to us through our thoughts and feelings. In a world so unknowable this is life eternal: to know the only true God and His son Jesus Christ.
posted by Joel @ 11:50 PM
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