Pope’s Foot-Wash a Final Straw for Traditionalist Catholics

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95. The nature of what we refer to as "proof", upon which all rational empiricism, that is, what

our culture refers to as "Knowledge", is based, does not allow 100% absolute statements of "facts" like "there is no God." One would have to test every definition of "God" in every situation in every variation of relationships with all other situations in the entire multi-verse (and that doesn't even include what we DON'T know about the physical universe) before you'd be able to rationally say "there is no God."

What I'm trying to say is that the fundamental logic and philosophy of science itself, including one of it's main tools, descriptive statistics, do not allow those kinds of flat, non-qualified, statements. All statements of knowledge are relative to the specific rational processes that produce them and anything more than that is more inferential in nature and, hence, LESS probable, especially the further it is extrapolated out into more and more remote circumstances and into the un-known.

All good scientists know this.

Have you ever read some of the things that Albert Einstein said about the relationship between science and spiritual understandings?