PHILOSOPHY;
SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE: INADEQUACY OF

Philosophy tries to find out the reason for things and to get at the riddle of existence. And they try it by searching—philosophers try it by searching into their own heads. There really isn’t too much in our heads, and since philosophers are compelled to stay within the confines of their own craniums, the result is, of course, disappointing. They never get at the real reason for existence because they’re hunting around in their little dark skulls with a flashlight and they don’t find very much. So philosophy has never been able to give us the real answer to life’s questions. Science, in our day, has taken over and displaced philosophy—and theology, for that matter—and science is reason’s search for knowledge in nature. Philosophy searches for knowledge in the philosophers’ own heads and science searches in nature. And knowledge there is obtained by observation and experiment. But neither can the scientist understand life. The key is in God. And hence, the godly man is the true sage. The man who knows God knows the Fountain and Source of everything; he has the key that unlocks everything.

Proverbs 1:7; 1 Timothy 2:1–8; 2 Timothy 3:1–7

Success and the Christian, 115.