I heard a commencement speech recently at a liberal arts college which was one of the best lectures I have heard. He addressed the importance of a liberal education as the necessary foundation for further scientific study; and though his emphasis was on the philosophical field of ethics (If Aristotle's axiom is accepted that, man being by nature political, political science is the most fundamental study, then scientific progress must stem from the principles of the societal good and the ethical ties and obligations to one another and to the society as a whole) and not metaphysics, many of the same principles apply. If one does not understand from a philosophical (or theological?) point of view the framework in which empirical science can function, then it ceases to be useful. Whenever a system is used to attempt to overthrow its foundational assumptions, trouble's a-brewin'.

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Paul Korte
OPC
Flint, MI

They who perceive in themselves discoveries of the divine goodness, so full and absolutely perfect, and who make them the subject of earnest meditation, will never embrace new doctrines, by which the very grace they feel so powerfully in themselves is thrown into the shade. --John Calvin

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