Gathering knowledge from diverse perspectives and sources enriches our minds and hearts, gives us more complex tools to understand our modern and increasingly global societies, and provides us with more robust and healthier abilities respond to challenges.
How do we know what is real? How do we know what is true?
How do we balance the differing worldviews and approaches to knowing that shape each of our worlds and the larger world that we share together?
One of the core issues of this set of episodes of Being Human Together is how we understand the world scientifically, philosophically, socially, and religiously.
In this episode we will lay out three ways we know things, or three methods of epistemology — arguments from authority, the scientific method of inductive reasoning, and knowledge passed to us relationally or socially.
Next, we’ll consider some historical examples of the tension between scientific and religious ways of knowing, including a more complex view of Galileo than you may have heard.
Finally, I will tell you a personal story about balancing religion and biological evolution.
Our goal is to give you more perspective on the inevitable struggle we must all engage in to piece together meaning from multiple approaches and forms of knowledge. Because in the end, none of them is complete alone.
