The Scales of finity in Infinity.

 

And this merely as informed by the eye and the imagination's stratification of its measurements, one after another compared by relation. Howbeit atheist science, whether identified with relativism or no, will sometimes admit the presence of purpose for the sake of argument in the little objects of the human scale, saying therein is it originated and only validated (as though there were never Foundation for a structure) but wipes it clean as a stain from the massive and particulate scales of the elemental objects, so as to effectively defeat all reason and all justification of reason in the name of this same extreme of curiosity. There needs no human personification of the universe (although such a thing is nearer than material objectification) to attribute Purpose, only the attribution of being which is, namely, the essence of existence, not one thing as denominated less alive or intelligent or rational than another, such as a human being to a lump of coal, but one thing as a part manifestation of the completed Unity which, so utterly transcending the capacity of human reason, transcends all human standards and comparatives. Hence the justness and rationality of theism, hence the injustice of confounding theism with superstition and so defaming it on that account. What is it to err in intellectual enterprise, be it scientific, literary, or otherwise? To defeat itself. Self-consumption as the snake Uroboros, that seems to think it is digesting some great nutritious truth as it eats at itself, for the man who crosses the length of the globe terminates at his point of departure. Better far the mind should be dilated with imagination, though reinforced with logic, than that it should be cannibalised with disfavour. There seems to be an almost morbid love to deflect all light and warmth from the human experience through modern atheism, with knowledge of ingredients, foregoing the purpose of their recipe. Science may harden this doctrine as part of a philosophical alloy, but these philosophers themselves pretend to dispense with philosophy, as though they do not think or communicate except in symbols and numerals. They do not speak for science only with science, for themselves.

 

  

   The Planck length describes the limit of existence in human terms and intelligence only. In truth, nine tenths of all study is nine tenths a study in human psychology, for we see chiefly with, not through, the eye. In such a way has the ant no inclination for picturing the worlds smaller than its sight can perceive. The remaining tenth is the tenth we muster in the study of the divine psychology of God, the cohering element of the well tempered and balanced philosophy.

 

 

'A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.' CHESTERTON.

   

   But again, finitude in any context, energy, matter, space, or time, is an assumption only suffered due to its usefulness in the particular ways of human life, and all these are only conceptualised measurements. Yet in all measurement the result is predetermined by the method. That is why in different ages of the earth's history it has been as plausible to believe in the opposites of each other: i. the earth is flat. ii. the earth is a globe. iii. the sun goes round the earth. iv. the earth goes round the sun. v. there are gods. vi. there are none. vii. it is the best of times. viii. it is the worst of times. ix. everything changes. x. nothing changes.

   Of course many might contend that this is the history of correction, but I am not so sanguine. Even the verification of experiments, even the complementation of amassed observations, combined with the democratic principle of verification, are in themselves predetermined methods. A man is most deluded when most convinced he is not. Of course this little thought will not butter any parsnips in a very rigorous economy, and usefulness in such an environment will continue to sway all tides, but that does not mean it is any more fundamentally truthful or accurate than the most fantastic seeming metaphysic. Evidence is only another word for confidence.

'They cared passionately about the truth, but their sense of evidence was different from ours.' KENNETH CLARK. 

'Yea, if a man jumps up on earth he will fall back down, that is scientific truth.' 

'No, it is scientific certainty. But you plumb the depths of any one of those concepts you have summoned in your sentence, "man", "up", "on", or "earth", and you will find you fall out of one concept into another forever. Like diving down to the depth of a sea and falling out of its bottom into another sky, then diving into another sea and dropping out of that one too, for eternity. It is everything or nothing.'