On page 39 of The Dawkins Delusion Alister McGrath quotes Peter Medawar as saying, in The Limits of Science:
That there is indeed a limit upon science is made very likely by the existence of questions that science cannot answer, and that no conceivable advance of science would empower it to answer…I have in mind such questions as:
How did everything begin?
What are we all here for?
What is the point of living?Doctrinaire positivism – now something of a period piece – dismissed all such questions as nonquestions or pseudo-questions…
So far so familiar. But what I really want to know is – who or what can answer the last two questions? (The first seems in principle … Read the rest