Searching for God-tooling-our-tools

"Each question or experimental project requires serious consideration of the tools, mechanical as well as cognitive, to be used in the search. For example, the order of magnitude of time parameters of a particular phenomenon (i.e. its duration and frequency) will dictate sampling rate of a measuring device, be it a digital instrument or the nervous system. Neglecting this issue may distort or altogether miss the event under study. It is therefore necessary to experiment on the particular instrument and determine its characteristics and settings prior to experimentation. In like manner, it is necessary to experiment on the instrument possessing cognitive abilities, the brain. Ignoring facts relating to the make-up as well as the behavior of this instrument result in distortions in our data and inevitably in our interpretation of these data" More....

Read it at the Library of Harvard Divinity School