Liberar la verdad científica

Abstract

The grammar proper to the description of facts does not satisfy the language of positive science, just because facts happen not to be neuter but significant, naturally armed with sense, with a meaning, a meaning that is written in the characteristic and universal language of that world, which is a symbolic language. What appears in close-up, the  appearances, attainable or accessible to the human way of knowing or getting to know the facts, is in turn a sign of a profoundly mysterious reality. Human biology, in showing that each human being is not submerged in the natural processes of physiology, leaves knowledge open to mystery.

There is no “biological property” to explain the free, intellectual and loving opening of human beings towards other beings. But biology does splendidly describe the biological assumptions of the gift of personal freedom. Indeed, there are prototypically human - therefore universal - experiences that, because they are empirically verifiable facts, provide us with the certainty that the world, life, and each one of the existing human beings make sense. The luminosity of nature, by which it becomes accesible to our knowledge, is a natural revelation of its Maker(*), that was besides told to all and for all with the primitive revelation, adding in that way to human rationality a support in the reliance of who is narrating what He has done. And that will only take an expression shape in the Judeo-Christian revelation. For this reason, scientific knowledge makes part of a wider human rationality. And, in opening itself to the other forms of knowledge, it can go towards these points of confluence of human thought of all ages, permitting us to look at reality in a clear and honest way.