At 12:51 18-4-99 -0700, jonbenn wrote:
>Rationalism is certainly a faith. As Chesterton noted, it takes an act of
>faith to believe the world is comprehensible. Absolute belief in man's
>rationalism is also idolatry, it really is only another expression of self
>worship.
......
>A topic I'd like to explore more deeply is how ideas about God are really
>the basis of our philosophy, which is really the basis of our science. The
>realtionship between Christianity and modern science is of special interest
>to me.

        This is quite in line with the philosophy of a famous Dutch philosopher
Herman Dooyeweerd ("A New Critique of Theoretical Thought", 1997. Lewiston,
The Edwin Mellen Press) - are you familiar with it? It may help to look at
http://www.basden.demon.co.uk/Dooy which gives summaries of some of his
main ideas.

Arie


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