Just saw this 2-minute video on EWTN.
It explains the limits of the scientific method and
the boundaries of non-metaphysical knowledge.
Dead Knowledge
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock people out of heaven... You brood of vipers and serpents, you blind leaders, you strain gnats out and swallow camels."
"...[T]he scribes, they know every single letter of Scripture, so to speak; they are the exegetes, Bible specialists, who can tell you right off which prophet said what and where. But it is all dead knowledge. They only dissect and analyze the Scriptures and no longer find life in them. Thus, the danger of any and every specialized exegesis is made visible in this figure of speech. People know everything, but Scripture is treated like a laboratory specimen, like a skeleton, that can be used for developing all kinds of things. However much people may know in detail, in this way they have strayed a long way from the message of Scripture. When simple people listen, on the other hand, they often understand the real message better than those whose extensive learning has become blind and deaf to the heart of the matter."
Joseph Ratzinger, God and the World, San Francisco: Ignatius, 2000, 239.
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