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This document discusses the limitations of science and the need for spirituality. It makes three key points: 1) Science can describe physical phenomena and how things work, but cannot answer questions about origins, values, purpose and quality. It is limited to methodological naturalism. 2) Explanations for the origins of the universe cannot be reduced to "nothing exploded and created everything" or that "God explains the unexplainable". 3) Science cannot determine ethical values or purposes - it can describe how things are but not how they should be. Morality lies outside the realm of science. The document argues that spirituality is needed to address these limitations and make people better.
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- 1. Spirituality in the Age of Science
- 3. Science looks for matter, not spirit Methodological naturalism Eg. Fishing net, Knowing personality thru X-ray, Seeing color image on a black & white camera
- 4. What science can’t tell us Origin Value Purpose Quality
- 5. Origin Nothing existed because of nothing – nothing exploded because of nothing and gave rise to everything
- 6. Origin God is not the explanation for the unexplainable – he is the explanation for explanability
- 7. Purpose “The cornerstone of scientific method is…the systematic denial that ‘true’ knowledge can be got at by interpreting phenomena in terms of final causes—that is to say, of ‘purpose.’” - Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity
- 8. Purpose Science “fails in the face of all ultimate questions” (Jaspers) and leaves “the problems of life…completely untouched” (Wittgenstein) .
- 9. Value Even the greatest forces and abilities don't seem to carry any clear instructions on how to use them. As an example, the great accumulation of understanding as to how the physical world behaves only convinces one that this behaviour has a kind of meaninglessness about it. The sciences do not directly teach good or bad. … ethical values lie outside the scientific realm. Noble Laureate Physicist Richard Feynman
- 10. Value You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn round and speak of the scientific foundations of morality… Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulae must fail - Albert Einstein
- 11. Quality “We cannot say that in experience one light has twice the brightness of another. The terms in which we measure experience of a sound are not terms of experience. They are terms of the stimulus, the physical sound, or of the nervous or other bodily action concomitant with the experience.…The search…for a scale of equivalence between energy and mental experience arrives at none.” - Nobel Laureate Neurophysiologist Sir Charles Sherrington, Man on His Nature
- 12. Everything inside you is not you “Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.” –Arthur Schopenhauer
- 13. Harmony Science can make things better; spirituality can make people better
- 14. Negativity Fear is not the problem – fear of what comes after fear is
- 15. Double role Makes us do wrong Castigates us for doing wrong
- 16. What’s inside us? Superficial desires generated by corporate-controlled media Core desires according to our material nature Core desires according to our spiritual nature
- 17. Living with the mind Distance Determination Devotion