God and Science

"Science only ever depends on the data of reality. Now, no one can prejudge what the actual data of reality are, nor what these data will be in the future. Theories must be based on these data, and can therefore legitimately formulate both positive and negative hypotheses regarding the object under consideration, as well as analogous hypotheses relating to its ultimate nature. Nothing justifies a prohibition or an abstention in this matter. Nothing, except an ideological bias, a dogmatic position which have no place in science or scientific research. It is therefore perfectly legitimate and perfectly possible, depending on the available data, to formulate positive or negative theories relating, for example, to the existence of God, to a manifestation of divine order, to Marian apparitions or to a supposed revelation, while remaining within the scientific field. This is what neither religious totalitarians, nor the proponents of French-style secularism, nor researchers who refrain from theorizing out of fear or conformity, understand or want to admit.
All find themselves in a paradoxical alliance of circumstance to prohibit or deprive God as an object susceptible to knowledge from the scientific quest. Nor is it a question of leaving Him to free consideration by entities in the sole light of observable reality."
( G. Getrey, Fundamental anthropology, p. 72)

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