Science and God

By on October 1, 2011 in Spirituality

These topics and others are discussed in the book War of the Worldviews – Science vs. Spirituality with co-author Leonard Mlodinow

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One Response to Science and God

  1. eugene October 1, 2011 at 3:47 pm #

    what if the Atlantis legends are merely the collectively conscious vague memory of the last cycle of sentient existence in this world passed on to "us," in which knowledge and awareness had reached a point at which the notions of "religion" and "science" had evolved into a merged perceptual and applied system. (that was a question. i guess it should end in a ?) but then, some mad "scientist" (hahahahahahaha!) messed it all up and plunged the sentient species before us into extinction with some hare-brained scheme gone horribly wrong? so then it all had to start all over again with a new species coming to prominence ("us") and taking up the process again from where it got interrupted. and, as you've talked about elsewhere, universal memory is also replicated in both genetic and collective conscious memory, and since energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed, what "we" knew before was retained in a nebulous file somewhere at the bottom of the the collective RAM cache. and this would explain why "the ancients" had so much more of an organic grasp on the harmonious interrelation of "religion" and "science" because they were temporally that much closer to that genetic memory than we are today. the only problem with "the ancients" was that although they had much more of an immediate grasp of that knowledge, they hadn't yet developed the cognitive faculties to express and record that knowledge comprehensively. so we kind of know it and see it, but in the way you can see the trees in the distance in a thick morning fog. and the only way we can conclusively get it again is to stop gazing at the forest through the fog and make our way through the fog until we reach the trees? i'm not saying nothing. i'm just thinking out loud. i'd like to state here for the record that when SIM Earth came out in the late 80's and i played it on my Mac (among the most enjoyable several weeks i've ever spent in this life!), my world not only survived, but thrived, and my species successfully made it off the planet. hehe. always a pleasure, Mr. Dee. thanks for making me think. awareness is the spark plug that ignites the internal combustion of the engine of evolution, and thought is the fuel that leads to action. just doing my part in any way i can.