Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas, thought by many to be the dominant scholar of his generation. Berlin showed that human convictions can be broken down into three categories: (1) Those that can be established by empirical observation; (2) Those that can be established by logical deduction; (3) These that cannot be proved in either of these ways. And it is a simple fact that “beliefs that give human life reason direction, and purpose. . . cannot be proved by reason or science.” For example, we cannot prove that the statements of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are true, nor that oppression is evil, nor that rape is wrong. We may assert these things, we may hold them passionately, alone or in the company of others, and we may live by them, but they cannot be proven by logic or science. The same is true of or biblical religion. (Quoted from: messianicjudaism.me/agenda/2012/05/15/lessons-from-alister-mcgrath-spiritual-surgeon-3-dealing-with-the-new-atheism/)
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