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Excerpted from the PREFACE: Our world, rich with thought and progress, has accorded mankind a sacred existence full of amazement and wonder.
From the beginning of recorded time man’s universe has evolved as an ever-changing microcosm of the great eternal
unknown – constantly proliferating with new discoveries that question, alter, mold, and define man’s sense of
knowledge and being. As man unearths the mysteries of life we continue to get closer to understanding its meaning, its
structure, and our place in it – giving us the opportunity to live life more purposefully.
For centuries, questions concerned with the significance of man’s existence and the nature of our reality have been
examined by the three fields of Theology, Philosophy, and Science – Theology and Philosophy asking the question “why,”
Science asking the question “how.” Although their approaches are dissimilar, all three areas of study campaign against
skepticism in the search for answers and inform each other: Theology serving as the devout study of spirituality, morality,
and divine thought as it relates to our lives; Philosophy serving as the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge,
reality, and existence, through investigations based on reason and logic; and the study of Science pursuing knowledge
through empirical evidence of perceptible phenomenon in the universe which is systematically measurable and proven by
observation and experimentation. Philosophical theories give way to theological concepts which in turn stimulate
scientific discourse. All three disciplines are intertwined in their respective attempts to understand the reality of
human existence. They are not antagonistic; they are complementary. As Albert Einstein wrote, “Science without religion
is lame, religion without science is blind” (Science and Religion).
