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Qs on science and my replies - Part 256
Qs on science and religion - part 2
Krishna: These are three different questions. So let me answer each question separately.
1. Which scientific questions cannot be answered by God?
God is a belief system. So the God concept doesn’t come under the scientific realm at all. Has God answered any questions in science till now? NO! Only scientists and people of science can answer the questions based on science using scientific method. So the answer to your first Q is ‘ALL’.
2. Which scientific questions cannot be answered by God believers?
To answer a scientific question you have to strictly follow the scientific method. God believers can answer the all scientific questions if they follow this method and completely forget about ‘God said this or God did this’ while doing that. Some scientists who are God believers do that. While talking about evolution, you have to completely forget about creationism. You cannot bring two things that work in opposite directions and try to combine them. That leads to erroneous conclusions and answers and pseudo-science. Theists cannot answer scientific questions if they follow religious methods to answer them.
Here the method they follow is important, not the area of question.
3. Which scientific questions cannot be answered by religious scriptures?
NONE! Religion doesn’t deal with science at all. It is a belief-based system and work completely in an imaginative world. It doesn’t follow scientific method to come to any conclusions. Its answers are also perception-based and primitive in nature. It refuses to get corrected, falsified, and improve itself.
Anything that doesn’t deal with evidence based facts cannot answer questions on or in science.
Q: Q:Scientists, do you agree with this quote from Louis Pasteur: "Little science takes you away from God, but more of it takes you to him."?
The more human brain works to tackle these inadequacies, the more answers we get. Scientists are doing their best to overcome these problems.
And God and religion are coming in the way!
Forget God and related topics. Because, first of all there is no evidence of GOD. It is human imagination that such an entity exists. To meet their emotional needs human beings invented something called GOD.
And people are investing both their time and money in GOD and religion more than they are investing in scientific research. People donate money to GOD, not to science. Then how can science find answers if you don’t provide adequate funds to scientists and waste them on religion?
Then people spend more time on thoughts like “GOD did ( or do) things in that way”. Like newton did (1). If they find some problem instead of finding the real solution, they go after, ‘divine solution’, filling the gaps with GOD, religion, creator and what not.
Don’t you think, they are going the wrong way? If you are attached to a belief (or emotion or group), it fogs your reasoning power out of fear, hope, love or respect and affects your behaviour. A mind that is agitated by belief can never be free and therefore never know truth (2). You shouldn't reason backward from belief to evidence because that will subject you to numerous cognitive biases and you risk fooling yourself about the nature of reality.
Science is in pursuit of the facts and the conditions in which these facts evolve so that we can give a meaningful definition to our existence.
In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.
Science is closer to truth than any other belief. GOD, spirituality and religion cannot give you the evidence based facts like science does.
We need only science to answer the questions in the right way (3). Just have patience. God and spirituality can never give you the correct answers in the present situation.
Footnotes:
- Science, as an infant, must accept that it doesn't know the answers...
- Science and Spirituality
- Science will answer your questions and solve your problems too!
Because scientific principles are the ones that govern this universe. They are the facts of this universe and run it. You cannot replace them with anything else and succeed in running this universe.
But has science, the study with which we try to understand the world around us, really replaced religion? Several people still want to live in a pseudo-world that primitive imagination took us into. As long as these people refuse to come out their shells and as long a some people try to keep them there in the darkness to exploit them, religion can’t be replaced.
Then how can you say GOD exists?
So from a scientific point of view, you cannot confirm that GOD exists.
So it is just peoples’ imagination that such an entity exists. Many in the world of science think man invented GOD and religion
1. to meet his emotional needs, to gain mental strength if he is weak.
2. to explain things that are still can’t be explained using scientific method
3. to fill the gaps (using unverified methods) in our understanding of the universe
4. to gain power and money
5. to hoodwink people and keep them under his control
6. to keep away from things he fears would disrupt his world and way of thinking!
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Technology is based on these principles. Technology works because what we found is correct.
Now religion. Most religions came into existence when human thinking was at a primitive stage. When scientific thinking and methods didn't get established. Most of the religious stories originated from the human mind's imagination. There is no evidence to say that they are true. It is just a blind belief system.
When scientific facts get established, they shatter these myths of religion. You get the story 'as it is' and not as you want it to be like it was told in the religious stories.
When you understand this, you awaken to reality. You realize that religious stories were narratives written on water, melting and getting erased as the scientific flow continues.
In what way do you understand religion then?
That depends on the type of person you are!
If you are afraid, you completely deny what science says and stick to your ancient mind set and still believe in religious stories.
If you want to make peace with science, but still can't come out of your ancient mind set, you try to connect science and religion and create pseudo-science and try to live in that pseudo-world.
If you are a critical thinker you understand what science says is true and completely abandon ancient thinking and religion and live a peaceful and enlightened scientific way of life.
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There are several people who are atheists
Atheists used their grey matter to think critically and found no evidence of things people say exist or happen if you believe in higher authority in the sky! And they had the courage to say what they found and practice it!
From where does an atheist draw strength? Critical thinking and self confidence derived from it!
They are relived they need not look up to someone in the sky to get things done. They go and do things ourselves. They need not practice religious rituals and waste their time. They can spend their time on more useful things.
They go to science to save lives. Control or eradicate several diseases. Stop pain and suffering. To feed the ever increasing population. To progress. To be comfortable in life. Even to ask Qs and give answers here.
Science is the language this universe is written in. Scientists are only uncoding the language, when they discover something. And they are using this information for the welfare of mankind. It is based on reality, not imagination, like religion.
If you want to live in reality, adopt science. Go to religion if you want to live in an imaginative world. The choice is definitely humanitys’.
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