Reply #193: Yes, and no.

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Okay, If I wore a scientist, I see before me two mechanical arms. Arm A picks up a sample of a plant/specimen, and conveys it over to arm B, where arm B then lifts the plant/specimen to an olfactory sensor to annualize the chemical composition of particulate mater and stray molecules from the plants fluids and tissues. The device that controls arm B also scans the plant specimen, noting the frequency of electromagnetic radiation being reflected by the pigmentation of the plant. Unit B then conveys information to unit A.

But if I were human, I would see a man giving a woman a rose so that she could smell and admire its beauty. She would of course thank the man for his kind gesture.

Two vary different views of exactly the same event. Both view points are totally correct. Where science is only concerned with exploring the imperial, even such a simple concept as romance will escape its reach, because there is nothing imperial about Romance for science to grab on to. What science observes, while technically correct and specifically accurate, simply can not draw even simple meaning from something like an emotion.

Science and religion are two ends of a spectrum of view points. Sciences are about facts and exploration, while religion is about meaning and emotions. A scientist for example may study the stars through a telescope, but the human in that scientist may prompt him or her to step outside and just look up at the stars, or even go take in a Star Trek movie. Things that mostly likely drive him or her into astrology in the first place. But it’s the curiosity that drive him or her into research, to truly explore what is truly there, only his or her discipline as a scientist will allow them to separate fact from assumptions that can be centuries old.

This is one reason why I think the creation/evolution debate is such a sad one for Christianity. Creationists are jealous of the scientists because of the degree of mechanical certainty it presents. Certainty without meaning, and meaning that doesn’t require independent thought. So they literally try to paint God as a cold machine, without meaning or prepuce outside of "creation" for creation's sake.

Its like the human being actively rejecting the romance of the rose between a man an a woman, seeing only tow machines passing along a botanical specimen. God did not make us so that we may experience the miracle of life and freedom to wonder. He just made us, so get over it, or else you burn in hell.