Can spirituality be scientific?

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Science (from the Latin scientia, 'knowledge') is a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research. -Wikipedia With this definition in mind, please answer.

Answer 1

Up until the 20th century science and spirtuality went hand in hand. The belief that you have to believe in Darwinism has caused some to think that you can't be a scientist unless you accept the theory of evolution as fact.This simply is not true.

Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould put it this way"Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited and directionless." In other words, Throughout the geologic layers, which supposedly formed over eons - the various kinds of fossils remain essentially unchanged in appearance.They show no evolution over long ages. Paleontologists call this "stasis."
Wouldn't a fossil record, showing all animals complete when first seen, is what we'd expect if God created them whole, just as the Bible says?
Austin H. Clark, the eminent zoologist of the Smithsonian Institution, was no creationist but he declared:
"No matter how far back we go in the fossil record of previous animal life upon the earth we find no trace of any animal forms which are intermediates between the major groups of phyla.
This can only mean one thing. There can only be one interpertation of thisentire lack of any intermediates between the major groups of animals - as for instance betweenbackboned animals or vertebrates , the echinoderms, the mollusks and the arthropods
If we are willing to accept the facts we must believe that there never were such intermediates, or in other words that these major groups have from the very first, borne the same relation to each other that they have today."
.British science writer Frances Hitchens wrote" On the face of it, then, the prime function of the genetic system would seem to be to resist change ; to to perpetuate the species in a minimally adapted form in response to altered conditions, and if at all possibe to get things back to normal. The role of natural selection is usually a negative one : to destroy the few mutant individuals that threaten the stability of the soecies.
Why aren't fish today, growing little arms and legs, trying to adapt to land? Why aren't reptiles today developing feathers?Shouldn't evolution be ongoing?
Evolution Is not visible in the past, via the fossil record. It is not visible in the present, whether we consider an organism as a whole, or on the microscopic planes of biochemistry and molecular biology,where, as we have seen, the theory faces numerous difficulties. In short, evolution is just not visible. Science is supposed to be based on observation.
L. Harrison Matthews,long director of the London Zoological society noted in 1971:"Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parrallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true, but neither up to the present, has been capable of proof.
Norman MacBeth wrote in American Biology Teacher:
"Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose in Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is to construct reliable phylogenies(genealogies or family trees). In this it has utterly failed...Darwinism is not science."
Swedish biologist Soren Lovtrup declared in his book Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth:
I suppose nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology;for a long time now people discuss evolutionary problems in a peculiar" Darwinism" vocabulary -- "adaptation","selection pressure","natural selection", etc.--thereby believing that they contribute to the explanation of natural events.They do not, and the sooner this is discovered, the sooner we will be able to make real progress in the understanding of evolution.
As natural selection's significance crumbles, the possibility of God, creation and design is again making a wedge in scientific circles. In a 1998 cover story entitled"Science Finds God" Newsweek noted:
"The achievments of modern science seem to contradict religion and undermine faith. But for a growing # of scientists, the same discoveries offer support for spirituality and hints of the very nature of God...According to a study released last year, 40% of American scientists believe in a personal God---not only an ineffable power and presence in the world, but a diety to whom they can pray."
Author David Raphael Klein may have said it best:
"Anyone who can contemplate the eye of a housefly, the mechanics of human finger movement, the camoflage of a moth, or the building of every kind of matter from variations in arrangement of proton and electron, and then maintain that all this design happened without a designer, happened by sheer, blind accident-- such a personbelieves in a miracle far more astonishing than any in the Bible."

Answer 2

Dear Friend, Let me admit , in my involvement in Spiritual scriptures for just about four a long time, I have no longer come throughout this phrase '' Scintific Spirituality'' I have no idea any factor in any respect and I opine that there is not any such factor as medical Spirituality. The Phylosophy starts in which technology ends.That is the the matters that we studu in hylosophy and Spirituality Can no longer be defined through technology.One has to do Sadhana, or comply with a course and via introspection ans any other ways which are initiated through Sadgurus ,possible obtain the Spiritual Knowledge regularly. That so much simplest I realize. I will probably be thankful to any that enlighten approximately what I have no idea. God bless you.

Answer 3

No. Science by definition is the study of the natural world in natural terms. Nothing spiritual or supernatural falls within the purview of science. Science can make no valid statements on such subjects.

Answer 4

I can't say much about the scientific end, but spirituality is alive and well, and if more people were to spend more time seeking out their spirituality we would see a major difference in how people think today, if one is well connected to their spiritual body there would be no need for religion,

Answer 5

In recent years, neurological scans have advanced to the point where they are able to record the clear association of mystical experiences with a series of observable neurological events within the brain---in other words, something biologically, observably, and scientifically real.

Answer 6

Yes and no. Science might be able to explain the way things are on earth but in heaven, and even in space, the laws of physics can be broken! really, the spiritual realm is based on "faith" and not so much on "evidence". Thats the way God intended it to be. Faith is the most valuable thing to have!

Answer 7

Spirituality. Doing the right thing, because it is the right thing to do. So, yes.

Those of you that think science and spirituality are incompatible are informed with neither. My contemplation of the laws of the universe are fully spiritual. Refer to E. O. Wilson on this concept.

Answer 8

No. Science is the study of the material world, which is separate from the spirit world. They are two different parts of reality.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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