Re: Is the written word the problem?
- From: CreateThis <CreateThis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:03:08 GMT
explainer wrote:
> ... It's the unanswered questions that belief defines.
Or maybe, "It's the unanswered questions that define belief." Belief
begins where knowledge ends. As science advances, it advances the
boundary between what we know and what we don't, making it seem to some
that religion is becoming more and more marginalized by scientific progress.
The marginalization of religion is a real phenomenon, and the advance of
science surely has something to do with it. But the religious will have
to solve this problem themselves - the world isn't going to abandon
science because religious extremists are feeling squeezed by it.
Anyway, I don't think the advance of scientific knowledge really reduces
religion's 'real estate' - what we don't know is probably an infinite
commodity, and I'm sure it will forever FAR exceed what we do know. If
religion simply accepts that what we don't know is its appropriate
realm, it will always be 'bigger' than science. It can take pride in
the old axiom: The more we know, the more we don't know.
CT
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