Hi Linda,
" I prefer to define truth as "what actually happened". "
What "actually happens" when a mother loves a baby? Hormones? Does she see her child as a collection of cells, a bunch of atoms banging about?
Instead, she says "Oh you are so beautiful!" The child is all the world to her. She is not being "actual" about it. Leave actuality to Dr Mengler. She invests that baby with mythic significance way beyond her power to demonstrate or justify, and by so doing is closer to the truth of the child than science can ever be.
"Man cannot live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." Note that bread is also a 'word of God', but insufficient to sustain human life. Science is all about bread. It's about this world of stuff. Science is a word from God because all truth is God's word. But the bread of science is not enough because there's more to the world than can ever meet the eye.
