| Re: Science 'versus' God? A few years back I endeavored to prove the opposite of what was normally endeavored by atheists and theists. Instead of trying to prove the existence and non-existence of God, I tried to prove the non-existence of the universe to lessen the friction between the religious and scientific communities.
A few caught the gist, a few didn't, but the more we looked into the religious texts and scientific theories, the more similarities kept popping up that made people go hmmm. Like the one god and the one universe; the many gods and the many forces and phenomena of nature; Akhenaten's spiritual-light creator and SLAC's physical-light creator; all knowledge, power and presence being contained within the universe and god.
Pretty much anything attributed to god can be attributed to the universe, to the extent that preachers are teaching science and scientists are bearing witness to the power of god. What's the difference? The forever mysterious universe is the forever mysterious god.
Perhaps the supernatural god is really the subnatural workings of the universe, and we can all be happy campers knowing that we really don't know much about anything. As the saying goes, "Ignorance is bliss," because seeking too much knowledge too fast can give you a mighty headache. |