Science, belief and faith

thought, instead of recovering fundamentalists. The Catholic Christian thought has become old-fashioned, archaic, antediluvian nay. It is to discourage you from being a believer! The real problem today is simply that there is now a dizzying chasm between science and religion. Yesterday, I told you that scientific rationalism opposed to religion as a certainty to another certainty, and I told you I was finally comfortable (if not comforting). Now what characterizes scientific rationality for nearly a century is that its certainties have lived, so the relationship between reason and theology has considerably changed. On one side there is “the collapse of certainties,” to borrow the title of the work of Prigogine, but the other continued certainties become completely obsolete. How, at an age when science talks about the reversibility of time that makes us going beyond the idea of a time represented as an arrow even speak not only as we have seen, Creation and Apocalypse, but hello again, of eschatology (end of times) of “future life,” etc.? Eschatology as the “future life,” that which has no meaning, at least in their present form by the Catholic Church. So it is not dare to think that science today, unlike yesterday leads to the true faith of certainty which is excluded (or should be excluded) that is why we can never move from religion to faith.

One day, a brave lady told me: “I have lost faith the day somebody told me that Santa Claus, was the parents.” And I said, “Well, you did not lose much,” and I tried to show that any belief as superstition were obstacles to faith. Again, be careful with words: the verb believes, in French, may refer to both faiths (plural) to faith (singular.) Even ambiguity when someone says

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