The Form of the Good, Holy Grail of Science

    "Science, pursued to its basic presuppositions, reveals a world with a moral and religious dimension." So thought Plato, whose Forms extended beyond material reality and into abstraction. Is the quest of science to find God? For centuries, religious men used science to discover the secrets of divinity, including Copernicus and newton. The antagonism of science and religion is a more recent invention, the reaction of a petty conflict between Galileo and the Church in the 17th century. The supreme form, the form of the good, would be the holy grail for scientists seeking a grand unified theory, or theory of everything. Plato foresaw the whole future of science with his brilliant theory. As scientists seek the truth of Forms with their senses and reason, believers in God know it by intuition. And that is why the highest Forms are intuitive, for they entangle far more objects than we are aware. I believe in time, science will reveal the impact consciousness has on reality, through testable experiments that do not always involve material things. Plato's profound intuition knew this centuries before science even made such huge advances in areas like astronomy, physics, biology, and chemistry. He is the true prophet of philosophy. Not only do his Forms predict the great adventure of science, but the power of monotheistic religion. When God saw his creation was good, he stole a word from Plato's book. So it was written, by men.