Quote:
Where you see God's hand everywhere maybe someone else sees the workings of Dharma (nature) everywhere.
Bu God I mean the "name" we give to the creative force, not the judeo-christian God ( though of course I personally believe them to be the same).
Quote:
Physical science is, by definition, physical. It can help us dispell the illusion of a separate self by helping us see our bodies as temporary formations of elements intimately linked to the entire cosmos.
It CAN do many things but is limited to OUR ability to preceive reality in our limited way.
Quote:
Where religions go further is that they write the ethical and mental dimension into reality. As the constituents of our bodies are linked to suns and physical forces on a cosmic scale, so the components of our personalities are linked together in time and space in a great web. But here it's not observable and testable in the same way as physical theories. It's no longer scientific thinking.
Science tries to answer HOW, Religion, why.
Quote:
Arguments happen between religion and science because they use the same words "truth" "believe" "is" but the words actually mean different things in the different domains. Activistic creationists are a warning example of the intellectual and moral trainwreck of mixing up these concepts.
Sure.
Quote:
If we relate to bad things that happen to us as the fruition of karma, or as trials to bring us closer to God, that changes us in a valuable way.
Agreed.
Quote:
This kind of thinking can coexist in the same person as scientific thinking. There are plenty of great scientists who were also religious.
Always have been and always will be probably.
Quote:
Sorry if this is all just emo posturing and "not getting it and never will" or whatever. I'm all too happy to have the critical thinkers rip it to shreds.
But it's the direction I've decided to walk.
We each must find our own path and I wouldn't worry too much about "critical thinkers", far too many like the sound of their own voices and are under the impression that they are stating "something new".