Presuppositionalist Science

"Without that passionate faith in the ultimate rationality of the world, science would falter, stagnate, and die - as has happened before. Thus science is sustained in its search for an understanding of what it sees by faith in what is unseen. ... The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?"


Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks, p. 71