If you believe there are features of our experience that science cannot completely explain, how do you account for these features?
2007-04-23 02:01:54 · 13 answers · asked by CherryBam.com 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In order to understand both the spirit of Tradition and its antithesis, modern civilization, it is necessary to begin with the fundamental doctrine of the two natures.
According to this doctrine there is a physical order of things and a metaphysical one; there is a mortal nature and an immortal one; there is the superior realm of "being" and the inferior realm of "becoming". Generally speaking, there is a visible and tangible dimension and, prior to and beyond it, an invisible and intangible dimension that is the support, the source, and true life of the former.
Anywhere in the world of Tradition, both East and West and in one form or another, this knowledge (not just a mere "theory") has always been present as an unshakable axis around which everything revolved.
Let us emphasize the fact that it was knowledge and not "theory". As difficult as it may be for our contemporaries to understand this, we must start from the idea that the man of Tradition was aware of the existence of a dimension of being much wider than what our contemporaries experience and call "reality". Nowadays, after all, reality is understood only as something strictly encompassed within the world of physical bodies located in space and time. Certainly, there are those who believe in something beyond the realm of phenomena. When these people admit the existence of something else, however, they are always led to this conclusion by a scientific hypothesis or law, or by a speculative idea, or by a religious dogma; they cannot escape such an intellectual limitation. Through his practical and immediate experiences, modern man, no matter how deep his "materialistic" or "spiritual" beliefs may be, develops an understanding of reality only in relation to the world of physical bodies and always under the influence of his direct and immediate experiences. This is the real materialism for which our contemporaries should be reproached. All the other versions of materialism that are formulated in scientific or in philosophical terms are only secondary phenomena. The worst type of materialism, therefore, is not a matter of an opinion or of a "theory," but it consists in the fact that man's experience no longer extends to nonphysical realities.
2007-04-23 02:04:36 · answer #1 · answered by Sorrowful W 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This may not be completely relevant to your question but... there are things of our human experience that science can't explain... yet.... for many reasons. Some I can pinpoint directly for the sake of argument.
The study of life and earth sciences rest on axioms of physical science which have been disproven and revised in the last century.
The study of astrophysics and free motion rest heavily on geometric falsities, recognised in Maths but not in physics.
The study of biochemistry has recently been guided away from a falsity by a correction needed to be made by physicists because the theory violated physics law, not biological law.
Thats my list so far which demonstrates that reconnection of the disciplines will help somewhat to realise the full potential of science.
2007-04-23 02:16:52 · answer #2 · answered by Monita C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spirit Soul and Body. Father Son and Holy Ghost. 3 in 1. The Trinity.
2007-04-23 02:11:30 · answer #3 · answered by farleefarkle 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You mean the things that people who don't understand science say they can magically perceive?
You can't have it both ways. If it can't be measured, then psychic believers and religious people don't know anything more about it than scientists do.
If you want something to be "outside of science", you have to admit that you know nothing about it.
2007-04-23 02:23:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can have knowledge of ...or explain these other dimensions without science then science will have no problem explaining them even further... but I doubt you do.
2007-04-23 02:10:50 · answer #5 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Science may not be able to explain it NOW. But given time science will explain anything which is real.
2007-04-23 02:05:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Ask in a science section. I think most of us are unqualified to answer this.
2007-04-23 02:22:21 · answer #7 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because science can't adequately explain something yet does not make it supernatural.
2007-04-23 02:04:19 · answer #8 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
There's lots going on at the quantum level and below, including the level of thought. We'll discovered it all as we learn more.
2007-04-23 02:05:03 · answer #9 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Obviously otherwise we might as well give up doing research.
2007-04-23 02:05:06 · answer #10 · answered by PoseidenNeptuneReturns 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋