Sunday 18 January 2015

The great debate

It's "The Big Question Time" again and if I can keep you all from falling asleep or before you do, the question this week was "can science provide enough evidence to prove that there is no foundation for region" ?
Gathered together were a group of well meaning intelligent people who were poles apart in their conclusions but gives me hope to be able to listen to people with genuine belief.
There's that word again, belief.
On one side belief is packed with partially conclusive facts derived through scientific and experimental observation.
Belief by the other group is based on a philosophical and an emotion approach that all things can not be answered by science and the parts that cannot are part of the religious ferment in which God had a hand.
One of the distinguishing features of the scientific tribe is their lack of compassion to people who have and live by religion. They are overtly sceptical, it's as if they are afraid to take on board the fact that they can not and may never know all the facts and therefore are entrenched in a belief system that has no fall back, no sense of forgiveness, no empathy with scripture that places such an importance on love for loves sake. They have to be right since the empirical logic of their reasoning has to deny the mystical nature of God.
On the other hand those who believed in a god were short of evidence. They postulated the idea that we do not know the nuts and bolts of our universal existence but with so many unanswered questions why not project another one and call it the Creator. In this way we always have a solution to any unanswerable question, it's God will.
There is always a tendency to judge the absolute correctness of human endeavour, to presume "there is an answer" !
Perhaps, as with chaos theory and the unpredictability of the sub atomic structure, truth, ultimate truth, is unknowable and the comfort many human beings get from a religious belief system, what ever form it might take, is that the human mind has constructed a sensible "fall back" position on this unknowability which, plagues the intellectual mind searching for answers but finds contentment to those, happy to believe in an all powerful God.

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