RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Religion and Society ~ 402 ~ complexity is not inherent in the law itself, but in the limitations of the human intellect. Fortunately I am supported in this by modern science, which makes it clear that there is a great deal more to the universe than can come under our direct observation, and that what is not knowable is much greater and more significant than that which is actually known. American Professor Fred Berthold very simply, but very profoundly sums up the philosophy of logical positivism: “The important is unknowable, and the knowable is unimportant.” In the nineteenth century, it was supposed that man was heading towards absolute reality, although at that time it was actually even further from his grasp than it is today. But, at least it was felt that man was sure to discover it one fine day. Now the scientists of the twentieth century tell us, under the banner of positivism or operationalism, that such a supposition was entirely wrong, as science can not tell us about ultimate reality or ultimate good. Sir James Jeans in his book, The Mysterious Universe, makes the point that “our earth is so infinitesimal in comparison with the whole universe, we, the only thinking beings so far as we know, in the whole of