Teaching and Learning III

Oh, that I could make them known and tell them! but they are more than I can count....

 - From Psalm 40

Here is the greatest wisdom in the universe, and it's the single thing that sets the faith community apart from the scientific community (there really should be no division between them): 

The Faith Community realizes that it does not know everything. And it is this awareness that drives it forward, toward progress: real progress, true progress, social justice, equity, peace, and goodwill.

But Science, in every age, seems to believe it knows it all. 

How can we but conclude, that Science today understands less than 1% of the Universe's knowledge? Even the Internet today only contains a sliver of what essentially is an infinite store of wonder and mystery.

Science forges ahead and creates its innovations. It rushes its technologies out there so fast, that in 2018 the average twelve year old has already viewed anything imaginable: the beautiful, the sad, the horrible, the vulgar. It's all out there for our youngsters. 

But Faith says "We don't know it all. Let's be careful." And urges caution. Faith seeks the balance of what we know with what we don't know. Faith honors the wisdom of the ages . . . it is a push-back against the impulsiveness of each new generation. And yet Faith is open to all new possibilities, while Science seems in a hurry to find some dead-end in human progress. "There. That's all there is."

In the Church Calendar, today is a "full circle" day. It is the Annunciation - the day that the Angel appeared to Mary and promised she would bear a son later that year. Easter ends . . . and the waiting period, for the coming Messiah, begins.

Extreme Science met Extreme Faith on the day that Christ was conceived. The ultimate question of Faith and Science is, "Why?" 

It should come as no surprise to Science, that whatever force launched everything in the first place, could launch everything again, but this time more naturally. The Son of God had to be just like us . . . He had to born like us and have all the same senses. He had to be mortal.

The idea of God intersecting the eternal plane with our mortal realm is astounding, and caused the Psalmist to exclaim what should be heard in every classroom in the world: "It's so wonderful I could never totally explain it!"

God leaves breadcrumbs for Science, through the Faith community. 

The Why, as well as the How, and When, and Where . . . all of those basic human questions, begin here. 

And it's Science.