I said I would read your Search for Knowledge and comment on it. I read it, and followed the link to The Rational Path Leads to God, and found the key point, highlighted above. This I think is the fork in the road at which we take different paths.
I believe being rational is something the human mind does. I believe it’s a form of hubris to believe the Absolute is rational. It’s like asking the Absolute to play by human rules. We are a product of the Absolute. It’s like children asking their parents to play by their child-rules. How can children understand, at their age, what the adult rules are?
I’m not saying the Absolute has its own rationality. I’m saying rationality is a tool humans use to manage their place in the world. It’s what we do, it has value, and we can’t escape the way we see things. But rationality is not a transcendent thing—not necessarily, anyway.
Wikipedia, quoting the London Telegraph, describes Michael Dummett (1925-2011) as “among the most significant British philosophers of the last century.” Having read many British philosophers, I agree. It’s worth reading the Wikipedia article on him. He was a devout Catholic. He explored the limitations of logic, drawing on the work of other logicians. I read his Logical Basis of Metaphysics which in its 300+ pages discusses the “holes” in logic.
He concludes the book with: “It is a persistent illusion that, from the premise that God knows everything, it can be deduced that he knows whether any given proposition is true or false—that is, that he either knows that it is true or knows that it is false, and that his omniscience therefore entails that the proposition *is* either true or false. On the contrary, its being either true or false is required as a further premise in order to deduce from his omniscience that he knows, in the sense stated, whether it is true or false.”
Dummett, a Catholic, is suggesting that if you asked God if the principle of sufficient reason was true, God would just shrug in response, as if to say true and false is a human thing, not a God thing.
