faith, religious knowledge—which fails the test of falsifiability—can be of no service to science. If economics generates …The knowledge (if any) afforded by Religion comes by the practice of faith, hope, and charity. It is direct …, experiential knowledge of God. The knowledge (if any) afforded by Science comes by the method of ‘conjectures and refutations …

criticism. Faith and knowledge are, as it seems, incommensurable, so that a reasonable critique of religion is impossible. Thus …, he consents to an arbitrary restriction of the use of reason, as proposed also by Joseph Ratzinger. …