Friday, August 3, 2007

Why is it when light shines in a dark world it is still dark? Part II

A panoramic picture seemingly of all aspects of society and its degradation is but fractured scenes of pixels and many empty spaces. Those empty spaces of reality do not seem to be there. The panoramic scene seems a consistent whole. That is the deception of reality, especially of the reality called realism.(from Part I)

Einstein’s theory of relativity is often used as subsurface content of modern realism. It is believed that the relativity of time in space is applicable to beliefs and values. Further counseled by methodological empiricism, modern realism sees relevance in an epistemology of an evolving and morphing understanding of truth. As the paradigm of modern realism developed, a metaphysic consistent with naturalism led to an embrace of Darwinian evolution. This dogma gives realism a cosmological explanation of the totality of the universe. As physics advanced as a discipline, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the entire field of quantum mechanics reinforced realism’s phenomenology. What you can observe and measure is the only reality. In one sense a unified theory did develop. It even encompassed morality and theology. A relativity of morality was worked out in the twentieth century as well as the many forms of what some call scientific theology, or theology based of the unified theory of realism. One of its well-known theologians was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

See also Part III.

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