THE NEED OF REVELATION
In
spite of the fact that we live in the most enlightened age of man’s history, man
has not been able to attain to any absolute knowledge. Man cannot be sure that
his knowledge today will not be modified or overthrown by the findings of tomorrow.
Science is in a constant state of flux. A popular layman’s book on philosophy
states: “Our sense experience and historical information are always changing.
We cannot tell whether any of our sense information is necessarily true ....
In order to be absolutely certain we would have to be able to show that it is impossible
that it could be false.”1 One can
view an object rotating thousands of times a minute in the light of a
stroboscope and his senses will tell him it is standing still. Objects change
color when viewed in light of varying wavelengths. Psychologists have devised
many optical illusions. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle which
operates in the field of quantum mechanics has been transferred by philosophers
into other fields of knowledge. Knowledge gained through our senses appears to
be relative. There may be absolute knowledge; there may be a God, but the
sceptic and agnostic say we cannot know for certain.
1 Richard H. Popkin and Avrum Stroll, Philosophy
Made Simple (New York: Made Simple Books, Inc., 1956), p. 188.
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