We can split the atom, fly to the moon, scan the eye and sat-nav our way around the world. We can create, design, develop and build. We have an amazing amount of know-how. By why? What is the use of know-how if we don’t have any know-why?
Peter Lewis wrote ‘our data banks are loaded with technical know-how, while our century has become bankrupt of know-why. Even as we solve the problems, we remain our greatest problem. We can control colossal forces but we cannot control ourselves….. Having locked God out of a scientifically determined universe, we now find ourselves lost in a spiritually empty universe: one with no higher purpose and in which life has no ultimate meaning.’
In a time of credit crunch and bank collapses, we need more than know-how.
The know-why is approximately 2000 years old.
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