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Could science and religion walk hand-in-hand?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	argo: Commenting your first post again. I'm a bit at a loss on how you can advocate reason and spirituality at the same time. To me spirituality is very close to religion and superstition which in my mind all fall into the same mythical pot of unreasonable, unargumented belief. A few comments/opinions on these topics: Phenomena that are out of perception. There are things that influence us and thus are perceivable/measurable and there are things that don't influence us. Morality is a human invention - agreed. I'd say that reality serves the purpose of moving and changing trough time. Whether this is beneficial to us or not is irrelevant. We define progress though what is beneficial to us. By reality I mean everything that is anything that influences anything. Conscious thought is in it's most basic level mechanics. There is absolutely nothing special about conscious thought other than it's complexity. It is an arrogant thing to believe that we humans are somehow better or special because of something that we have defined as conscious thought. To something or someone much more complex our conscious thought would seem as simple as a falling rock is to us and probably as irrelevant. I don't think partial destiny is possible. I believe in absolute destiny. Destiny that is unfathomable, unchanging and absolute. Influenced by nothing and foreseeable by nothing and no one. Even something that is completely outside of the system couldn't influence it because then it would become a part of the same system and in the context on destiny it would mean that it had always been a part of that system. Destiny involves everything. From the smallest of particles to the biggest of entities (every 'conscious thought' too). So you could say I don't believe in destiny. The difference between something and someone is only in complexity. edit: argo: posts like mine are an excellent source for conflicts because of the our conflicting POR-s but don't take it too seriously ;) But try to prove me wrong of course ;) [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/3736]Arthurio[/url] on 02-21-2008 13:42)[/small] Loading...
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