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The Birth of Religion - Part 19

by Aura

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We have, in our lives, an entire system of living that gears us, trains us and motivates us into chasing the physical. Those who achieve in the physical world are venerated. The God of the modern human is Science – suggest anything that isn’t able to be tried and tested by science and you will meet ridicule and personally derogatory remarks – and this is from those who claim their goal is knowledge!

Don’t get me wrong; I have been interested in both science and used the scientific method for most of my life. But there are things which cannot be tested by science. Science requires the subject to be falsifiable. This means you must be able to propose a situation where, if ‘X’ isn’t true, ‘this’ will be the result. Then you set out to try to disprove ‘X’ and see if it can be done.

God is not falsifiable. This doesn’t mean God is real, just that Science can’t test for God. Equally, the Big Bang is not falsifiable – the theory says that all we know, including the laws of the Universe, came into existence with the Big Bang, so the actual event predates the Universe AND all the laws. Consciousness is likewise non-falsifiable – there can be no experiments that give results where Consciousness doesn’t exist – who would be proposing the experiments? Also, String Theory is currently non-falsifiable as we have no way to test for either the presence or absence of them.

But seeing people supposedly geared to Science, to discovering the new and the meaningful about our Universe reacting with disdain and ridicule to those who dare to think otherwise that orthodox science is disturbing. The system meant to be an alternate to that of a spiritual life, to accepting and working towards an immortal existence, is failing us.

If it is wrong to question the basics, if doing so brings personal attacks and the worst debating tactics to bring down those who question, how is this different from the religious fanatic who derides everyone who doesn’t believe in the same, exact, specific ‘god’ believed in by the derider?

Science has become the new religion.


Posted in Everyday Musings, God, Religion, Science on August 1st, 2008

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