... "truths"? When Flew's falsifiability challenge to theism, made in 1955, is directed towards science itself, we find that scientism so rigs the methodology and criteria for truth that the meaning of falsifiability itself is reduced. The sterilization of symbolism in science results in a meager envisioning of reality that materializes whatever contemporary physics says is nonmaterial. Tillich said that if,a religious symbol does ... value(s) into a vapid kind of tolerance. Religion needs science to help avoid fanaticism and dogmatism and a consuming nostalgia for a sacred past. Religion h...

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