New Science Discovery

Wonderful discovery.  Whenever we can advance our knowledge it is good.  Interesting that the newest discoveries can change long held truth to a newer and sometimes completely different truth. In human history we allowed for God as the “rational/faith” response to the unknown.  That is still a good idea.  Not in order to stop investigation but to act as the bridge between what we have discovered and what we have not yet discovered.  The idea of God is an idea of rationality against irrationality.  The idea of God points to purpose and order in the presence of what seems chaotic and beyond reason.  I especially like the idea that the more we know the more we know that we do not know.  And in reading Donald Rumsfeld’s book, I like his idea about “…not knowing what we do not know.”  Sounds counterinuitive, but if we cannot even conceive of something, then we cannot name it, and if we cannot put a “thing” into some symbolic form, (like language) then we do not know what “it” “is” that we do not know.  All of this is premised on the idea that there even is an “it” which “is”.  All of this can meaningfully be attributed to the workings of the God whom we know and whom we know that we do not know.  And Yes, this is not goobly gook talk.  It is philosophical and even theological reflection on the wonderful new discovery of our scientists.  Hooray.  I love it.