ABSTRACT
The modern predicament is that man seems to be faced with an unbridgeable gulf between science and religion or it might be better to say between knowledge and faith. This is a permanent human predicament as well as a modern one, but at the present time it is particularly cruel. Scientific discoveries cannot be said to contradict the doctrines of theology except when theologians are rash enough to make pseudo-scientific assertions about events in the world of nature. Within science itself the problems of religion like those of morality and art simply do not arise: they are merely irrelevant. A critical philosophy cannot afford to leave out what is properly ignored by science: it must take into account, not only the world as known to the scientist, but also the scientist as claiming to know the world. Nor is there any reason why it should confine itself to scientists and neglect all other forms of human experience.
