Comment It's old news, really (for some at least) (Score 1) 510
In 1964, a Christian theologian and philosopher Gordon H. Clark, has published a book titled THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND BELIEF IN GOD where he attempted, successfully I might add, to highlight the most fundamental problem of secular science, that is the problem of epistemology. The issues raised by the NYT article have been addressed and answered in the 60-s by the above mentioned philosopher, of course not to everybody's satisfaction. Some of Clark's points, relevant to the NYT article, he more fully discusses in his books can be assessed by following this URL to an article titled "Science and Truth":
http://pneumaticus.com/pneumaticus/publications/ep istemology/clark/clark_ep_002.php