Should we dedicate time to matters beyond science's reach?
2:30 The rapid progress and abundant services of experimental sciences have led many to the conclusion that they should only rely on tangible and measurable matters and consider anything that does not fit this definition as useless and lower than the level that can be called knowledge.
This happens while this statement itself does not contain the criteria it emphasizes. The ideas and methods that removed many false beliefs and brought progress and welfare to humans were also thoughts outside the framework of experimental knowledge.
Therefore, being material or immaterial of a subject is not a suitable criterion for evaluating it; rather, what matters is the argument that supports a viewpoint and makes it acceptable to collective wisdom. Therefore, ignoring metaphysical matters without examining their arguments has no basis other than superficiality.
Of course, not every problem has the value and importance necessary for examination and spending time; but subjects like the creator of existence, the meaning of life, and the eternal destiny of man are so decisive for destiny that sound reason does not allow ignoring the slightest possibility about them.