Cesare Baronio told Galileo, “The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.” Most people are not aware of this distinction, including a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Had he known this, he would not have tried to compare the two as vigorously as he does.

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But it is quite another thing to compare science and religion. Science is a description of nature. Religion is a prescription for the supernature.

“The other thing people don’t realize about science which differentiates it from religion is that, the most exciting thing about being a scientist is not knowing and being wrong. Because that means there is a lot left to learn.”

What Lawrence Krauss has yet to understand, despite the fact that Baronio stated these words over 400 years ago, is that his discipline is an extended observation of the physical world. It is an unfolding of the knowledge, a growing body of knowledge of how things work. It is not a body of knowledge about how things ought to work.

Since Krauss is so excited about not knowing and being wrong, here are some things that are included in that ignorance and error.

One of the most exciting things about being a scientist is not knowing if baby torture is wrong. What scientific experiment has he performed to determine that baby torture is wrong? Has he derived complex mathematical formulas that prove that torturing babies is wrong? Has he even come up with a theory that inflicting needless pain on babies is wrong?

No. He has not. And that is a huge thrill for him. He is ecstatic that he, as a scientist, does not know that baby torture is wrong. He might even think it is right, because he thinks it is exciting to be wrong and has a lot left to learn about it. Torturing babies could actually be right.

This is only a small example of what Krauss does not know. It is a subset of evil and Krauss does not know if evil exists. He has never detected evil with his eyes, ears, nose, tongue or nerve endings. He has not come up with a series of tests that can prove that evil exists.

He might look at a particular action and claimed that it is evil. But that requires him to know what evil is in the first place. He cannot rely on his gut feelings because he is a scientist and scientists have to know it before they act. Feeling is not knowing. Feeling that baby torture is evil is not the same as knowing it.

In fact, Lawrence Krauss knows that he has a lot to learn about whether or not evil exists. For now, he will not believe that there is no such a thing as evil until he gets more evidence.