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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