Science is about carefully experimenting to test whether something is true. If I create an experiment that tries to prove something, I must be very careful because there are assumptions in my thinking I cannot detect (at least, I think there are).
If I try very hard, I might design a good experiment that seems to show what I hoped would be revealed. But even then, my science friends will not accept my “truth” until they try their own experiments—often to find mistakes that I may have made. When enough of them try to show there was something wrong with my data (the results of my experiments) and are unable to do so, then my idea may be accepted. Really good glimpses of reality that are uncovered in this way let us make predictions. Great scientific theories predict odd things that one would never suspect, but when tried, turn out to be true. That’s why, over the years, solid knowledge builds on solid knowledge like bricks that form a building. Pretty soon, we can build things like computers, televisions, and robots that fly to far away planets where they land, explore, and send back pictures through millions of miles of space.
When we design experiments, many times we wish something were true. Our hoped for truth seems too elegant and wonderful to be wrong, but through experimentation, in the end, we discover we were on the wrong track all along. Sometimes the real truth is so bizarre that it is hard for anyone--even the smartest scientists--to understand how it could be that way. Quantum theory is one example.
To answer your question, yes. Science is about learning more than we know for sure. It is about imagining, thinking up questions, guessing about what might be, coming up with a procedure to test whether my guess is right or wrong, and then, hopefully, having something revealed—something we didn’t know before. To understand whether a supreme beings exists, which is probably one of the oldest questions alive in human beings (any yet unproven through science), we would need to be pretty wise to design a good experiment. If I were trying it, I would look at including myself in the experiment, since my connection with a supreme being, I would guess, is not external, but something that comes from a different place in me.
That type of experiment might work with what we call awareness, consciousness, feeling, and so on. No one has done a very good of designing such an experiment since our ability to probe those areas with scientific tools is crude. So, without tools, what could I try? I might consider thinking of ME as a big experiment where I try something, like meditation, or counting backwards, or reading signs upside down, or walking with a different gait every time.
My experiment could be to observe what is going on inside me…without judging…to see if I act mechanically, with intention, or maybe sometimes one way and other times another. I might see all kinds of interesting habits and daydreams, but if I did, I might be able to invent new experiments to probe particular things I observe, like habits, or attitudes, or forgetting to be in the moment and so on.
Because the experiment is alive in me, I wouldn’t be able to show anyone my data, but I might see a change in myself, and perhaps…maybe…that change would create a quieter place where something very fine, like in your question, could enter.
You may be the first person to connect science and religion. I hope so. Just remember, there are untold truths that have never been proven, just like there are untrue things that we accept without a question alive in us. Whether we are scientists or seekers, I think your approach is right. A famous Russian once said, “Take the knowledge of the West and the wisdom of the East, then seek.” He may have been on to something.
2006-07-08 19:27:32
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answered by Anonymous
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That is happening everyday. Many scientists are starting to believe in God because the evidence they keep finding keep telling them that there was no accident that caused us. What they do find is that there must have been an intelligence at work when every thing that there is showed up. There is a plan and the design of our world and universe is too complex to have been an accident.
2006-07-08 18:26:02
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answered by caedmonscall99 3
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It is possible that a supreme being of some kind has left a code of itself in the laws of nature, but I can't think of any reason to even suspect that is the case.
2006-07-08 18:20:24
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answered by lenny 7
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Ben is wrong about Einstien. Einstien started out as a jew and died as a deist. He became less religious the more indepth he got.
If deity is to exist in our universe he would be bound by our science. In that since yes. But if you ask any of these fanatics they will tell you difrently.
2006-07-08 18:26:19
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answered by upallnite 5
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That's the way that Propaganda works. They try to frame public opinion by using different buzzwords to portray the same picture from different perspectives. Bush's grandpa funded Hitler and his daddy ran the CIA. Bush knows all about how to use propaganda. The PKK has been attacking Turkish civilians in Turkey with American weapons that were funnelled to them. Even the puppet government of Iraq considers the PKK to be a terrorist organization.
2016-03-26 22:17:10
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answered by Anonymous
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No, "the wise and the prudent will not understand my word" Science don't compare to the Bible. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. What did science create in the beginning?
2006-07-08 18:21:10
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answered by Anonymous
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not "science" that is taught in public schools. real, untweaked science not twisted by the media or evolutionists can be excellent proof and blueprints toward God.
The glory of God is shown through His creation, the complexity and perfection in every aspect of it.
2006-07-08 18:22:52
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answered by Boba Fett 3
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yes..
have you ever heard the radio that can catch frequency of spirits/ghosts.. i don't know what it's called..
just picture this.. our galaxy is so small.. there's millions other galaxy out there.. there's a possibility..
but for present the science may not reached the power to do so... may be in the next hundred years..
2006-07-08 20:00:33
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answered by Anonymous
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Read some of Einstien's theroys...
the more in depth he became with physics, the more he believed there is some sort of supreme being...
2006-07-08 18:22:24
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answered by Benjamin 2
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Yes it could! The laws of physics determine everything that happens in our lives.
2006-07-08 18:21:17
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answered by Anonymous
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