Science explains the known. Religion the unknown.
Both seem to evolve the same way. A theory is propounded and a lot of bright minds say it is wrong because of X-Y-Z, or right because of A-B-C. And the arguments continue.
Is a Buddhist scholar with soaring SATs smarter and more right than a
Baptist scholar with the same score? Is the physicist who claims string
theory explains more than the accepted physics dogma of the 1990s
righter or wronger, or are both right? Or wrong?
Science, cures diseases, builds bridges, saves lives and kills a lot of good people (think Sarin gas or nukes).
Religion provides solace, makes lives better, and kills a lot of good people (just don’t think about it.).
For those of us with average SATs, life decisions are made very difficult by brilliant persons insistence on their infallibility.
Science, for instance, leaves us confused. One of Einstein’s theories of relativity means that no one person sees the same event identically. It depends on the angle of vision. For instance, a woman seen in a train window looks out at the lone person on a platform. He appears to be moving from right to left. The man on the platform, at the same instant, sees her moving from left to right.
The take-away is that there is no absolute reality. Reality is in the mind of an individual. My reality is, by definition, different than yours.
But. of course, mine is accurate.
Science, cures diseases, builds bridges, saves lives and kills a lot of good people (think Sarin gas or nukes).
Religion provides solace, makes lives better, and kills a lot of good people (just don’t think about it.).
For those of us with average SATs, life decisions are made very difficult by brilliant persons insistence on their infallibility.
Science, for instance, leaves us confused. One of Einstein’s theories of relativity means that no one person sees the same event identically. It depends on the angle of vision. For instance, a woman seen in a train window looks out at the lone person on a platform. He appears to be moving from right to left. The man on the platform, at the same instant, sees her moving from left to right.
The take-away is that there is no absolute reality. Reality is in the mind of an individual. My reality is, by definition, different than yours.
But. of course, mine is accurate.
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