Re: the dalai lama on religion and science

On May 12, 7:00 pm, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (John S. Wilkins) wrote:
Dr.Gary Hurd <garyh...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 12, 4:30 am, wf3h <w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
wise words from a religious leader; would that creationists take heed:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/quote-fo....

"As a child in Tibet, I was keenly curious about how things worked.
When I got a toy I would play with it a bit, then take it apart to see
how it was put together. As I became older, I applied the same
scrutiny to a movie projector and an antique automobile. At one point
I became particularly intrigued by an old telescope, with which I
would study the heavens. One night while looking at the moon I
realized that there were shadows on its surface. I corralled my two
main tutors to show them, because this was contrary to the ancient
version of cosmology I had been taught, which held that the moon was a
heavenly body that emitted its own light. But through my telescope the
moon was clearly just a barren rock, pocked with craters. If the
author of that fourth-century treatise were writing today, I'm sure he
would write the chapter on cosmology differently.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will
have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for
the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science
about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced,
I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview

"In discussing questions of this kind two rules are to be observed, as
Augustine teaches.  The first is, to hold to the truth of Scripture
without wavering. The second is that since Holy Scripture can be
explained in a multiplicity of senses, one should adhere to a
particular explanation only in such measure as to be ready to abandon
it if it be proved with certainty to be false, lest Holy Scripture be
exposed to the ridicule of unbelievers, and obstacles be placed to
their believing." - Thomas Aquinas, c.a. 1225 - 1274, Summa
Theological (1273).

It's Summa Theologica. And it's convention to give the part, the
question and the article from which this comes: Prima Pars, Q68. Art 1.
--
John S. Wilkins, Philosophy, University of Sydney
scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre

Thanks John. I got bit by the auto-speller machine.

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