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Originally Posted by dleviwing  Michael;
Spiritual people tend to cling to an assumption that the lack of proof is proof of a god or deity; it’s not. It is just a lack of knowing and does not prove anything. |
Dave, I'm sorry to interrupt your thread here by my post, but I totally admire and respect your opinion.
'Deity', 'hereafter' and 'spirit' have never been proven. To discover truth as good as possible by means of the scientific method and to interpret the facts with concepts as little as possible, into causal connections according to laws, always in the operational framework of 'measuring is the first condition to knowing' and to make clear, measurable testable and independent repeatable predictions on the ground of this, is great.
However, I just want to add that science and religion operate in different fields.
Religion is a
feeling of astonishment that comes over when thinking about the universe; it's the experience of the
emotion which is felt in the presence of the mystery of nature and in the respect for its creator.
Spiritual people experience this emotion and want to share it with other people by uttering it.
I consider that to be great as well.
It's likely we will never get a scientific answer to the question: "Does God exist?"
But isn't it just a matter of simple logics that science can not have anything to say about the reality of a supernatural spirit that leads us?