He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.... Psalm 2:4
"As its somewhat virtue-signaling name implies, the thinkers of the
Enlightenment wished to distance themselves from anything that smacked
of religious “superstition.” This led to the determination to declare a
unilateral declaration of independence from the metaphysical sphere in
favor of purely “scientific” modes of explanation.
Yet in the face of
the last century of scientific discoveries we have come to realize that
hubristic expectations stemming from the Enlightenment dream of
encompassing the whole of reality in some grand material theory of
everything have been forced into a reluctant retreat." Neil Thomas, 6 Oct 2022