THE GENOCIDE OF TRUTH: Twenty Roots of a Modern Blood Libel
by Daniel Clarke-Serret
CHAPTER 3: Religion
Dead journalists or dead journalism?
Science is concerned with the physical. Religion is concerned with the metaphysical.
Science is concerned with evidence. Religion is concerned with doctrine.
Science understands our limitations. Religion encourages God-like certainty.
Religion, or at least narrative faith, have their place. The author believes in God. The author believes in the slow, steady journey towards a better world which we will never quite reach. Perhaps you agree with these statements. Or perhaps you strongly disagree. This isn't the book to test those assertions. Rather it is to make common cause around the following claim: if we are to prove what “is” in the world of the physical, we need to use the scientific method.
