Thursday, January 22, 2009
And Here I Thought We Already Had It Defined
What do you do when you don't like something? Well, in this day and age, you redefine it! You do so in a systematic, scholarly fashion, and suddenly the accumulated knowledge of eons fades away into nothingness.We have seen this time and again. What was once perversion has now been studied and found merely to be "different."
Well now, according to this MSNBC story, we are going to take that paradigm, apply it on a "meta" level and do away with anything not "scientifically proven.
I am, by formal education, a scientist. I am a person that deals in facts, figures, and data-based conclusions. And yet, I have discovered, in ways more painful than I ever dreamed possible that there is more. I have discovered the mystical in Christianity. As I said in a email a while back, such fits me like a dress fits a dog. But the truth is undeniable and unverifiable - in other words, "wisdom."
The world will be in a terrible state if scientists define wisdom.
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Well now, according to this MSNBC story, we are going to take that paradigm, apply it on a "meta" level and do away with anything not "scientifically proven.
"And many old people are wise, as most of them will tell you, but sometimes they can’t remember your name, so how smart is that?Note there is not a theologian, pastor, or other religious figure in the bunch. Interesting isn't it. I mean after all, we have operated with a fairly simple definition for a few millennia now:
It’s paradoxes like these that lie at the heart of a new $2 million research project called Defining Wisdom. Based at the University of Chicago, the four-year initiative, supported by the Templeton Foundation, has enlisted 23 scholars ranging from historians to economists to psychologists to computer scientists to examine the idea of wisdom, with the aim of cultivating it and better understanding its nature.
Job 28:28 - "And to man He said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'"Once we "officially" define wisdom apart from faith, the boundaries between good and evil will equally officially disappear.
I am, by formal education, a scientist. I am a person that deals in facts, figures, and data-based conclusions. And yet, I have discovered, in ways more painful than I ever dreamed possible that there is more. I have discovered the mystical in Christianity. As I said in a email a while back, such fits me like a dress fits a dog. But the truth is undeniable and unverifiable - in other words, "wisdom."
The world will be in a terrible state if scientists define wisdom.
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