Theological commitment in modern cosmology and the demarcation between the natural and human sciences in the knowledge of the universe

As we argued previously (Nesteruk [2008 (b)]), the theological commitment in the dialogue between science and Christianity means not only a dispassionate critique of a scientific secular mode of thinking, but calling into question the ethical value of the secular science with its pretence for objectivity and neutrality, with its claim for the truth of being, as if it were devoid of any religious connotations, faith assumptions, and possibility of transcendence. The theological commitment calls into question some gnostic ambitions of modern science and its desire for power to solve problems of this and other worlds.1 The scientific secular mind...