Reply #109: Wow, why such hostility?

[MadHound]

Frankly, I've worked in the scientific arena, nuclear physics, and have associated with some great scientific minds. Yet even these people don't claim that science is the be all and end all of our life, and that in fact, at some point waaaay out there, science and the divine merge, forming an all encompassing whole. You may not like that, you may reject that, but that is some of the very latest state of the art thinking from those who are on the bleeding edge of physics.

I find it amusing, all of these people who put so much of their faith and themselves into science. It becomes much more like a religion to them, with science taking the place of the godhead as the be all and end all of life. The trouble is, as I pointed out earlier, science can only take you so far before it too, like religion, runs into a brick wall. Perhaps the best solution to the conundrum is a combination of both the secular and the divine, science and spirituality.

But hey, believe what you want. I personally lean rather heavily on science, but I also realize that science can ultimately go only so far. After that:shrug: It is wide open. We simply don't know and nobody, no matter which side of the fence they're on, can claim to have the answers for everything, or that either science or religion is infallible. Both have been proven wrong time and again, and both are a work in progress. Perhaps you should open your own mind to the possibilities rather than tying yourself to the concrete.