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Nirvana

08/11/13 1:18 PM

#7202 RE: snootmagruder #7200

Snoot, true but I would give humans/science some credit!

It is next to impossible to fathom God's vast creation ... the more Science digs in, the more questions are generated! :)
However, science/humans have helped us get to this stage in evolution where life is indeed comfortable and we have so much more knowledge about our universe.

While Science "tends" to "oppose" Religion, I am finding more and more that Science and Spirituality are converging.

Below is a text from Carl Sagan:

“Spirit” comes from the Latin word “to breathe.” What we breathe is air, which is certainly matter, however thin. Despite usage to the contrary, there is no necessary implication in the word “spiritual” that we are talking of anything other than matter (including the matter of which the brain is made), or anything outside the realm of science. On occasion, I will feel free to use the word. Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or of acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."