Is not the concept of God (not religion) antithetical to the scientific spirit?

Question

In science there are myriad of grey and many, many black areas. But no God ever could make them any less dark. Believing scientists can only resort to comprises by compartmentalizing their thought processes.

Answer 1

There are many scientists who are exploring the phenomena of the spiritual realm, the anti-material realm!

Empirical science is a very sound structure, the "spirit" of which is starting to look outside the largely accepted boundaries of that which is accepted as a means to determine objective reality.

This can be demonstrated by the exploration into consciousness itself, which cannot be empirically demonstrated, but would be gross foolishness to deny, because of the intrinsic proof of subtle levels of reality beyond the view of empirical analysis.

With this step taken and riding along the assumption of faith, even within the paradymn of Steven Hawkins, who has accepted and his view is agreed upon largely by many members of the scientific fraternity, that hypothetically if a superior entity existed and possessed personality, then the systematic use of empirical science as a means to discover a Supreme entity would be inappropriate.

Therefore other means of analysis would need to be explored, when this is done with a personal approach rather then an analytical approach with a system that is not suitable to probing that which it seeks.

Then through that process and by revelation, the identity of that which is beyond the view of empirical science, can be achieved successfully.

Which highlights the restrictions or boundaries that empirisists place upon themselves and the conceptualisation of the materially minded that transfers its own deficiency onto those who have successfully ventured beyond the boundaries of gross material empirical science and speculative mental conceptualisation successfully.

To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 2

The only ones who have a conflict between science and religion are the religious extremists who have a fit every time they run across something that suggests the Earth is more than 6000 years old. Most modern Christians don't have a problem with theistic evolution and are easily able to reconcile their beliefs with the evidence. Only the literalists and the brain-dead see a conflict, and they are very loud and well-funded.

Science seeks out natural explanations for natural phenomena. The mnoment you accept magic as an explanation, all reliability goes out the window. A good look at the track record of science puts it miles ahead of the literalists. It was science that got us to the moon, science that let us create probes to go into our Solar System and beyond, and it will be science that will eventually carry us to other worlds one day. What have the literalists gotten us?

Paranoia, anti-science, pseudo-science, beliefs in spirits and demons, and a case of xenophobia that rivals that of the Islamic radicals.

If we ever go to other worlds or further, it won't be the literalists who get us there.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. I'm not a believer in any faith by the way but consider God/religion as separate from the rules of the physical world. I don't see any problem with a God-driven universe AND believing in evolution and a 4-5 billion year old earth. Some religions consider God "outside of time" - furthermore, presumably he could create the universe with a history, even if only did it a few thousand years ago (or one minute ago as far as that goes). Now this WILL conflict with some religions which use very literal interpretations of their holy works.

Answer 4

The problem is that people confuse the term Atheist with meaning "There can't be a god and it is absolutely impossible" and the term agnostic with "I sit in the fence about the issue."

A person who is atheist basically doesn't think any of the gods in this world are true. They further don't believe in any other gods because there isn't any evidence for them. This is the same logic used to not believe in unicorns. The term agnostic means "without knowledge," so all atheists are in a technical sense "agnostic" because there is no knowledge of a god. Furthermore, then, an atheist is willing to open to the possibility of there being a god if there was evidence for it. Sadly for those that want there to be a god, there just isn't any evidence at all for it. Therefore, atheists are not in a black or white type of scenario. Saying atheist is just another way of stating that you don't believe in deities due to their baseless.

Answer 5

Too bad almost every Western scientist in history has been Christian. I'm glad Galileo didn't know that believing in God meant he couldn't think straight.

Answer 6

It is not. Thedifference between the sage who serches god and the scientist who does research is; the former serches the secret of creation with in himself and his conciousness, the later serches the same thing through material universe.
The former finds it in total bliss and the later finds only a part of it

Answer 7

what?

i'm sorry, i've gotten confused in all your wording. it's a bit too much. there's no such thing as scientific spirit. science is all with your mind, which is a totally different part from the spirit. the spirit is the part of us that is connected to God.

i believe in black & white, i don't believe in gray areas.. but i believe that we are looking at things in a flawed and immature way, that's why we can see so much gray.

Answer 8

If "scientific" is a "spirit", then God can't be antithetical, as He is a spirit too.

Answer 9

Sounds deep however think less ok

Answer 10

sure, why not