In this and the next lecture I hope to suggest alternative strategies and routes to the one suggested thus far. I hope that we can come to a recognition that at stake is possibly the entire tradition on which western science has been created. First, however, I wish to address a number of preparatory ideas. But we need to ask if process theologians are critical enough of the epistemological and ontological assumptions of modern science. This is arrogant if not absurd.
Science is done with intent.
Theology should contest the meanings that surround the facts of science. Try to unpack this along the lines just discussed. Nucleosynthesis is a beautiful description of the production of the heavy elements - needed for the production of complex, organic molecules and essential to life. Our way of thinking about the universe is shaped, even distorted by the philosophical lenses that we look through. Next, he chose mathematics, as a source or propositions whose truth was beyond doubting.