” “While "what claims to be science must face” the criterion of "a synergy between mathematics and empirics”, this method “rules out the problem of God, making it look like a non-scientific or pre-scientific problem. In this way, though, we reduce the range of science and reason", in the light of which "man is reduced himself”. This is the alarm sent out by Benedict XVI in the Assembly Hall of Regensburg University. According to the Pontiff, from this perspective, "the questions of religion and ethos can find no place in the space of common reason, as described by science, and must be shifted to the sphere of the subjective”; a ground in which "subjective conscience", debased to "a personal discretionary power", "eventually becomes the only ethical aspiration”. “A dangerous state for humanity warns the Pope: we see that in the threatening pathologies of religion and reason pathologies which cannot help bursting out, when reason is reduced so much that the issues of religion and ethos no longer concern it”. ” “
