James,
These are an interesting set of questions. I am coming from a rather different view than most who have answered.
1.No for a variety of reasons. The scientific method is usually addressing questions that apply to the physical universe. The danger is that since we are limiting ourselves to only the physical universe, our questions never address the possibilities outside of this reference frame. The theologian many times makes the same mistake and ignores the questions of the physical universe laying outside his realm of the spiritual. Now in actuallity the scientific method is assuming that knowledge is knowable and predictable. The conservative theologian also approaches his quest for knowledge with the same precepts. Ultimately the two will eventually be asking the same questions. I also personally believe that God limits and has limited man's discovery of knowledge, this is the only thing that has prevented us from destroying ourselves and I do not mean to imply that we shouldn't ask the questions, it's just that the answers might not be found, not that they don't exist.
2. Yes. We are finite creatures living in a physical universe. Any questions outside our realm of existence are scientifically unanswerable but philosophically and theologically potentially answerable.
3. Yes
These are an interesting set of questions. I am coming from a rather different view than most who have answered.
1.No for a variety of reasons. The scientific method is usually addressing questions that apply to the physical universe. The danger is that since we are limiting ourselves to only the physical universe, our questions never address the possibilities outside of this reference frame. The theologian many times makes the same mistake and ignores the questions of the physical universe laying outside his realm of the spiritual. Now in actuallity the scientific method is assuming that knowledge is knowable and predictable. The conservative theologian also approaches his quest for knowledge with the same precepts. Ultimately the two will eventually be asking the same questions. I also personally believe that God limits and has limited man's discovery of knowledge, this is the only thing that has prevented us from destroying ourselves and I do not mean to imply that we shouldn't ask the questions, it's just that the answers might not be found, not that they don't exist.
2. Yes. We are finite creatures living in a physical universe. Any questions outside our realm of existence are scientifically unanswerable but philosophically and theologically potentially answerable.
3. Yes
