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That is precisely correct.


Science is a narrow field of inquiry. It is concerned only with material phenomena. God is not a material phenomenon. Therefore, science is insufficient to detect Him.


Metaphysics and philosophy are necessary.




What they demonstrate is less like reason (in the classical sense that governs man's interfacing with the universe) and more like self-recognition and problem-solving skills. Obviously they are greater than what are possessed by, say, ants, but nothing like the reason which man alone possesses.




The philosophy I expound here follows precisely the sort of deductive reasoning found in mathematics. You proceed with an unprovable but self-evidently true axiom (e.g., "for every two points in space, there is exactly one straight line connecting them") and reasons forward from there. If A is true, and B follows logically from A, then B must be true as well; and so on till we arrive at Z. If there is a flaw in the logic somewhere, then it can be demonstrated and thus the argument invalidated.


That it is not evidential does not make it deficient. This is simply not an evidential field of inquiry.


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