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Muggeridge praises Pascal for "his sublime defense of faith as the one sure guide to reality"

Long excerpt from Malcolm Muggeridge's book A Third Testament, with intro discussion questions

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0:00 Muggeridge writes of “the cul-de-sac into which science must inevitably lead” us. How could science lead us into a dead end?
0:37 How does the quote from Richard Nixon show “the idiot conceit of technologically advanced nations”?
0:44 Muggeridge writes that Pascal denounced “the vainglorious pretensions of science.” How could modern science be both vainglorious [boasting or prideful] and pretentious [demanding unjustified honor]?
1:02 Muggeridge contrasts Pascal’s “beautiful scepticism” with “the sentimentality and credulity of scientific humanism.” How could a scientific humanist worldview be both sentimental [appealing to shallow, oversimplified emotions], and credulous [gullible, or believing too readily]?
1:24 Muggeridge praises Pascal for foretelling the downfall of modern science. How is Pascal’s idea of man incompatible with the modern scientific study of man? According to Muggeridge and Pascal, why can’t we understand ourselves using only science?
1:43 Muggeridge quote, "Some ten centuries after Augustine..."

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Music:
Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis (intro & outro)
Into Oblivion, by Darren Curtis (quote)

Thumbnail Image: Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) studying the cycloid, engraved on the tablet he is holding in his left hand; the scattered papers at his feet are his Pensées, the open book his Lettres provinciales. Exhibited at the Salon of 1785; the plaster model was exhibited at the Salon of 1781. By Augustin Pajou - Siren-Com (2005), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...