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Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick  Just as a matter of interest David,are you one of these people who actuallly believe in
life after birth?
regards michael. |
I have no idea.
But as far as I know, scientists tried to 'find' someone inside the brain; the result was they found nobody in the brain, nobody in the cortical regions of the brain and nobody in the subcortical or the limbic regions of the brain.
But I also believe in the following, something Einstein said and which I find very powerful: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
This may sound negative for both of them, but that's not my intention.
I believe they're both very important; the problem however is, they often conflict with eachother.
I think that's because science only believes what it can prove, they only kind of believe in what they see.
However I consider this to be very important.
Religion wants us to have trust, sometimes even when we don't see it.
I try to use just an example as a metaphor; for example when you're married, you can trust your wife or not.
You can take a "scientific" approach, and constantly pursue her to check whether she's cheating or not; cause that's the only way to know for sure. But I don't think this would always be in your advantage.
You can also take a "religious" approach, and blindly trust her. I think this neither is always a good approach, cause it could also be in your disadvantage.
It's really a pitty they conflict with eachother.
But I think they are both very important; but they use another perspective.
I do agree that for humanity it's sometimes better religion doesn't interfere with science; but I also agree that sometimes it's better science doesn't interfere with religion.
I also agree sometimes it's better they do mix up.
I think it all depends what's best.
Maybe it's good to kind of 'label' ideas, concepts or theories, so we know which perspective is being used?
I do believe life is a very relative thing.