by Garrison Gibson

Created on: March 02, 2007   Last Updated: May 11, 2007

Can the pot prove the existence of the potter, or the mud prove the existence of the Earth?

Science means 'knowledge'-can knowledge recognize or 'prove' God to it's own satisfaction if it encounters Him face to face? Certainly the Jewish establishment of Jesus' time had difficulty with that, as did so many others.

If knowledge or subjective epistemology existential apprehends the appearance of God is it then proved? If one is comfortable in a nice laboratory or enfeofed as a wealthy Governor of a province or state what is truth, what is the meaning of truth then as one is so comfortable and truth isn't necessary-just all the wine,women and song, political power and prestige are perhaps relevant.

If one encounters God on a space mission to another Galaxy how is it proved? How can one recognize or prove God differently from a powerful alien. When God resurrects you would it then seem proved, or would the scientist posit the possibility that a powerful scientist had done the resurrection? What 'proof' other than faith could serve to demonstrate that any other is just the most powerful super-human being encountered thus far? Some paradigms could never be satisfied perhaps to demonstrate the absolute nature of another. If Jesus Christ returned and rolled up the Universe, wouldn't some still believe that some extra Universal scientists or good natured poetic aliens of power and created the cosmos for fun or profit and were masquerading as God? Some may then come to believe that God is just the most powerful being they will ever encounter and one with incredible creative power over the Universe. That is another reason why people have faith in the humble, pure spiritual life and works of Jesus Christ-the tour de force of baddest dude in the Universe proof wasn't necessary for Him.

Logically science cannot prove the existence of God. Logic tests propositions for validity and of course deductive reasoning can be proved while inductive reasoning can only yield conditional results. God is non-contingent being.

In logic concepts and ideas as well as words that are representational of things for-themselves are classified and associated as members of valid sets. Particulars cannot be combined to prove a Universal, and God is the ultimate universal.

The late Carl Sagan wasn't such a formalist about what science is that he over-stated the case for the absolute power of the discipline of knowledge known as science. Scientific validity could be proved to be true or not following some simple steps evidence, hypothesis and testing of empirical data. None of that is of course applicable to spirituality that has it's own criteria for belief...faith. Faith can be given by the Holy Spirit and developed with trust and personal inquiry into the evidence of Jesus Christ given in the Bible and other historical sources.

Science at it's most fundamental etymology simply means 'knowledge'. The sources and validity of knowledge have innumerable possibilities of course within the human experience of the cosmos and uncertainty is an implicitly aspect of the nature of mid in-itself. Uncertainty allows room for change in not only knowledge but in the world of physics as well. The sole absolutely certain element of anything perhaps is just God with hi absolute categories of omniscience and omnipotence.

Uncertainty in quantum mechanics and quantum cosmology provides the hypothetical scalar field of all universal expression room to let plurality emerge from monism, for space and time to expand without so much as a necessary order of assembly subject solely to statistical probabilities of thermodynamics.

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