Reply #16: Science and Mythology (spirituality etc) are neither compatible

[TalkingDog]

nor incompatible.

As I have said on this board a number of times, you are not comparing apples to oranges (both fruit) you are comparing apples to internal combustion engines. They aren't even in the same realms.

The only thing that science and "anti-science" (mythology, spirituality, etc.) have in common is that they are both frameworks; ways to view the world.

One framework does not describe reality more clearly than another. No more than the chemical formula for Wellbutrin describes it's effect on the taker. No more than boxes nail to a tree describe the release of personal demons. These are abstractions of experience. Experience simply is. Science and Mythology describe the genesis of that experience or the results of that experience.

Both ways of viewing the world are valid. Both ways of viewing the world are necessary.

As in any mythology or framework, evil occurs when taboo boundaries are crossed. Mythology and Science are equally valid, but equally incompatible frameworks. To force one into the other is the psychic equivalent of evil.

(p.s. I'm using psychic in the psychological sense, not the popular sense)


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