The Theolgian's fallacy.

One of the errors that theologians make is in believing that they can arrive at truth by logical analysis of the Bible and other ancient texts. For example, "exegetical preaching" is commended. The problem is that the universe is not logical. The idea that one could arrive at truth through logical thought experiments went away with the dark ages. That is the whole purpose, and power of the scientific method, to find out why the universe doesn't act the way our logic says it should.

There are two conclusions:
1. Theologins will never arrive at the truth unless they subject their ideas to real world testing, and rather than dismissing science, they should embrace it, use it, and encorporate it's findings into their theology.
2. Religious people may feel threatened as scientists start to study and test spirituality. They shouldn't. Truth is truth no matter where it is found, and error is still error, no matter how long we have believed it to be true. We may discover things that treaten our world view, but isn't that what we should expect? After all, we always say that God is beyond human understanding.

Of course the scientist's fallacy is that, just because he can see it, taste it, hear it, and he knows how it works and what is going to happen, that God is somehow not involved.