Jake Bishop

Jan 12, 2001

Swineburne

Chapter 2

Swineburne assumes that the only way a person can affirm the truths is by “scientific proof”.  But because human senses are flawed, our observations can be inaccurate; because our minds are not perfect, we do not know all truths at all times.  Therefore, even the things proven by science require a certain amount of faith, or belief that our uncertain senses and mind produce valid results.

Science is a process, a discipline of our mind and senses, but requires a certain degree of faith.  Some Theists believe that science alone cannot relate the existence of God, because it is flawed, and is not all-encompassing of the truths of the universe, and anything that may exist beyond our existence.

If Swineburne is limiting his proof of God to science, then the strength of his arguments may be shown to be faulty, because laws and theories are not capable of explaining or encompassing the concepts of the infinite difference between our understanding of the “real” things in our world, and the nature of God.

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