Preparing for the Miraculous

eing human and the copernican principle 125between matter and everything else. The reason seems tobe the physiological restrictions of the evolutionary humanbeing, who can only measure things perceived by the senses.The phenomena of life are obvious but for the most partindefinable, and this goes still more for the phenomena ofthe mind and the spirit. The result will be that living beingsare studied as complex compounds of material elements,and that the mind will be declared a function of a materialbrain. Any time scientific materialists tackle matters of thespirit with the concepts and instruments of their science,they venture beyond their ken and produce for the mostpart nonsense.4. Science can only work with the “primary” qualities ofthings: extension, motion, and mass. “Secondary” qualities, likecolour, scent or taste, are effects of the primary qualities.This principle illustrates clearly how the scientific method– by which is mostly understood the method of physics– reduces the world to a kind of abstract rendition of itsreal appearance, a black-and-white version of the fantasticdiversity it really shows. Here again a reduction is made towhat is measurable and quantifiable, in other words usablein the composition of mathematical formulae.5. The language of science is mathematics, based on measurement.According to this principle what cannot be measuredcannot be known exactly. However, each measurement isthe application of a theoretical mindset, as is the registrationof each fact. Consequently, the way Reality is seen byscientific materialism is the outcome of a complex prejudiceoriginated within the framework of a scientific theory – atemporarily accepted consensus now called “paradigm.”Where once (around the year 1900) the science of physicswas assumed to be complete, without anything basicallynew to be expected, the growing awareness of the relative