Whether Science And Spirituality is Contradictory?

Question

Do you think Science and Spirituality is contradictory?

According to Indian Culture and spirituality, the whole nature (observing phenomena) is part of the self (observer), and there is no duality between the two (Advaita). Einstein describes that the whole matter is nothing much vibration of energy (e=mc2) - which means everything we see is play and display of the same energy.

Science knows that the base or substratum of matter is energy. Vendanta goes further - it explains the whole matter as vibration in the level of energy , and continues further, to explain that the substratum or base of whole energy is conciousness. This can be compared with the observations of String theory and UFT.

See http://amazedsaint-intutions.blogspot.com for my thoughts. Post your observations on this.

Answer 1

It is a bit confusing as Scientist are always disproving other scientist and one religious scholar is always contradicting the other religious scholars. So listen to me an I will tell you the truth, note this is what Eve did in the garden

Answer 2

Science is after all a quest to reveal the universal truth. even though im not too familiar with the concepts of spirituality , there does exist an underlying link between life ( spirituality ) and science

but they do differ inthe sense that science is a systematic study which can be verified experimentally. however spirituality is nothing but a proposed theory trying to explain the working of life in a disorderly fashion. even though spiritual outlooks do deserve some credit science is light years ahead in terms of clarity and universal application

Answer 3

Science explains the external world around you that can be seen heard or perceived.
There is a world within you. your mind, your spirit, your Self
Spirituality is the answer
science is half the circle ,spirituality the other half
join them you get a complete circle.

Answer 4

One can write a book on this one single question. But all I'll say here is that Einstein was a religious man and a great admirer and reader of Bhagavad Gita.
Maybe the answer to your question is in this great scripture. I know the answer to all my questions are in this book.

Answer 5

science without sprituality is lame. spirituality without science is blind. one is complementary to other.

Answer 6

Great question. When I was young, I kind of viewed modern religion as something that old people grabbed onto in hopes that this existance wasn't all there is. Later on, I began to believe that throughout history, religion was simply a way to explain the phenomenon and events we didn't understand - lightning, thunder, fire, volcanoes and so fourth.
As I got older and studied engineering, science topics and physics - I grew a little more critical of all of the things that science tries to explain - and all of the things which it simply can't explain. It seemed that no matter how much we know, there are simply things that we may never know for certain.
For instance, some of our scientific laws actually reinforce the basic origins as requiring a creator. We assume that matter cannot be created, yet every theory we have about the origins of life or the universe start with all of the building blocks already in place - the premodial mud, the singularity, the inconceivable amount of energy necessary to describe our observable universe and so fourth - and none of the scientific theories tries to explain where these building blocks themselves originated.
I don't honestly know if we are just the modern version of the people who used to use religion to explain phenomenon and origins that they couldn't explain, or if, as you point out in your question, the whole anchelada is just the infinite variations of matter and energy playing out in everything from our being to all that we preceive as reality - and in the final analysis, it is all really the same entity.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein

I personally do not find that science and religion are necessarily mutually exclusive - but rather appear to be mutually dependent.

Answer 7

no, i don't think so
at least not completely

Answer 8

The God could begin to create the Universe only in an absolute
reference system and only under physical and mathematical laws.
Now it is considered, that an absolute reference system is
the cosmic microwave background radiation Т = 2,7К.
But this relic radiation is extending and decreasing.
Therefore in the future it will come to Т = 0К.
From Т=0К the physics begins.
From Т=0К the religion begins.
From Т=0К the philosophy begins.
From Т=0К the psychology begins.
From Т=0К the Genesis begins.
From Т=0К the formation of stars begins.
From Т=0К the God creates all.
How can the God make it?
* * *
The Quantum physics approves, that in the beginning God
created " virtual particles ".
Astrophysics approve, that in the beginning the God created
" latent mass ","invisible particles ", “'missing mass'” or “'dark matter'”.
From them the God created everything.
But nobody knows, what is " virtual particles ",“'dark matter'”
what is " latent mass ", " invisible particles ".
And then the physicists are surprised :
“Why is the nature of the microworld so paradoxical ?”
We use words not understanding their meaning.
Does any body remember how we call people
who say words and do not know their mining?
Who are we?
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Creating all MATERIAL WORLD the God
could only working in an absolute reference system
and only under physical and mathematical laws.
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1.
What is the absolute reference system?
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Now it is consider, that reference frame connected with
relict isotropic radiation T = 2,7K is absolute.
But T = 2,7K is not a constant factor.
This relict isotropic radiation continues to extend and decrease
and, hence, approximately over a period of
20 billions years will reach T=0K.
That is a structure of Nothing, of Vacuum, of Absolute Zero.
2.
What a geometrical and physical parameters can the particles have in
the structure of Nothing, in Vacuum, in Absolute Zero in T=0K?
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According to the laws of physics :
J. Charles ( 1787), Gay-Lussac ( 1802),
W. Nernst ( 1910), A. Einstein ( 1925)
particles in a Vacuum cannot have density, volume
and consequently should be flat figures.
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These laws tell, that
then closer to zero T=0K, then the particles lose more their volume.
The volume of these particles aspire to infinity.
And then this “ infinity” comes the brain of physicists
stop to work. They refuse to think any more.
And I say when volume of the particles disappear they
become “flat phantoms”.
These “flat phantoms” are not abstract particles, they are real ones.
Quantums of light flies with speed c=1 have such geometrical form.
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2.
What is a quantum of light?
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The secret of God and Existence hide
in the “Theory of light quanta”.
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