if the 'spiritual' has substance, does that means science will discover it one day, or not?

Answer 1

Yes, it does.

If the spiritual has substance, then it should be measurable. If it's measurable, science should one day discover some way of measuring it.

Answer 2

Substance does not have to mean something is tangible enough to study. Substance can also refer to the weight something has on a person's life. Spirituality may have substance, but that substance lies within a person's beliefs not on a scale.
And as for the soul weighing something; circulating fluids in the body, the pumping heart, the functioning brain, the filtering organs all create pressure as the human body lives and works it's way through life. That pressure from all the mechanics of the body is what's being weighed, not a soul. Once the functions of the body cease, there is no longer pressure and you end up losing those 3 or 4 pounds.

Answer 3

Depends.

First, the word "spiritual" is rather meaningless. You would have to first define what you really mean by "spiritual" before you apply any scientific methods to discovering it.

However, even if you defined it and it is real, i.e. "has substance", science may never find it. We will never find most of the universe. Even the light you see from distant stars is old and those stars might not exist anymore. The universe is just too big to find everything in it.

Of course, if the "spiritual" is defined well, is real, and somehow affects things here on Earth somehow, then that interaction should be discoverable.

However, science has already discovered "the spiritual". In reality, people just use that phrase to mean things they feel emotional about. Science has studied human nature and has some understanding about why people feel emotional about things, and why people like to use words like "the spiritual" to justify their feelings more. Unfortunately, people who use that phrase, won't agree to this definition. They like to pretend that "the spiritual" means something less mundane than that.

Answer 4

Substance is a feature of the phenomenal or material realm. There may be a parallel in the spiritual realm, but I don't know if science will one day discover it. Until it is fashionable to consider such possibilities, science will not touch it. Today it is not fashionable. Science and religion are looking at the same things, but in different ways. Each wants to discover reality. Maybe reality is the substance.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei

Answer 5

Ideally, yes. If it physically exists, then one day, the slow march of science will eventually catalog, weigh, and classify it.

But science is not an ideal process, it is perpetrated by flawed humans who impose their own views on the data, even wihtout realizing it.

Imagine this. This afternoon, a scientist in his lab runs an experiment, looking for some new theoretical particle. He discovers, totally by accident that his test rig responds to human beings and manifests a colorful aura around them. Further tests show that it only does this for humans, not manikins, plants, or other animals. He might very well beleive that he has stumbled on a "soul-detector", but if he publishes one word of it, he will be laughed out of the profession. So he will come up with another theory, that it is reacting to the particular wave-lengths of the human nervous system, or some similar, rather than mention word-one of "spirits" or "souls".

Answer 6

Of course. If it is there to be found, Science will discover it, provided man survives long enough for it to be discovered.

Answer 7

You can "if" anything . There is no use speculating unless , or until that substance has been found and verified .

Answer 8

God created science. and i think youre taking the word 'substance' out of biblical context

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

It is in the process of happening right now. Check this out,

http://www.whatthebleep.com/