More than a great mystery writer

G.K. Chesterton is one of my favorite mystery writers, and has been praised as a model by Jorge Luis Borges, one of my favorite writers of any kind. Turns out he's a Christian apologist as well, and writes that as well as he writes his mysteries. Here's what he has to say about claims that science makes it impossible to believe in God:

[S]cience [cannot] forbid men to believe in something which science does not profess to investigate. Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence; it cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.

Hat tip to The Buck Stops Here, which is full of Chesterton quotes right now.
- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 5:22 PM