self means to be liberated from the conditions determining a thing’s
existence. And that which is unconditional cannot appear within the
search for conditions per definitionem. But God is the Unconditional
per definitionem. When I said that the progress of science has driven
the rumors away from the Unconditional, it is not because science
has produced some argument against this rumor. The reason is
instead a psychological one: scientific progress has dazzled us. It
exerts a fascination. It creates the impression that science will
ultimately end up explaining everything, even though this notion is
as absurd as it would be for a person watching a film to expect the
film ultimately to illuminate itself so that the projector would
become superfluous.
No, the alternatives are never: “either we explain the world
through science or we believe in God,” but only: “either we dismiss
any understanding of the world,” i.e., we surrender reason, “or we
believe in God.”
Robert Spaemann. Rationality and Faith in God.
