Truth and mystery

Consider the difference between Christianity and science in their attitudes to truth. Christianity says there is an absolute Truth, but we cannot wholly know it, only see through a glass darkly. Science is right behind Truth, but says it can be known through the scientific method. The trouble with that claim is that, lacking a completed science, what we really have are highly predictive theories, which will nevertheless be overturned or at least replaced by the next paradigm shift. That means that science gives itself a sense of confidence that it cannot live up to. Just as the Wars of Religion in Europe came out of a retreat from the Christian doctrine of mystery, the horrors of the Twentieth century are precisely the horrors of absolute certainty as permitted by rationalism: in racial science and Marxist economics. Clever people may not be able to reconcile their rationalism with Christianity any more, but they need to find a sense of humility akin to the Christian notion of mystery in their approach to Truth. Otherwise dogma and inhuman horror will haunt us while reason is wide awake. For my money, the savage logic of Peter Singer being the main example right now.