Although born to Jewish parents, Brian Keating was raised a Catholic, and remembers being draw to the religion as child. Later in life, Keating—a professor of cosmology and the author of several books—rediscovered Judaism and became observant. He discusses the relationship between his academic work and his religious beliefs with Adam Jacobs:
I don’t look to the Torah for science. It’s crystal clear to me that Torah is not a science book. . . . And that’s why I think every scientist needs it, because doing science is the practice of people, and people need wisdom. To practice science (which means “knowledge” in Latin) divorced from wisdom is the ultimate form of pointlessness, as if a surplus of knowledge is tantamount to moral wisdom.
I think science struggles with a meaning crisis, and that what we do is important, but if it’s just used for technology or acquisition of knowledge for its own [sake], then there’s a pointlessness to it. I think to be a complete human being, you need to have both the knowledge that science uniquely can provide, and that the Torah cannot, about the natural world. [But] it’s functionally useless to acquire knowledge without any associated wisdom coming from it or leading to it.
To Keating, that sort of moral wisdom can come only from religion.
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