I know, is pretty definitive, isn't it.
I know, doesn't make me right, it's I KNOW, and that's worth very little to anybody but me. I've spent most of my life as a wishy-washy kind of guy so I'm trying to be a bit more definitive in my formative years.
I have no concept of God as such. Whatever it is it is not personal, is unattainable, is indescribable, is unknowable, it is not trinitarian, favouring of a particular religion, did not appear as Jesus in the flesh, etc, etc. Did I just contradict myself?
If one believes that the universe is preceded by cause, and I do, then every aspect of the universe must therefore be imbued with the directive, divine energy of cause. So the tools we used to unlock the secrets of the universe, science based tools of understanding, are in fact describing phenomena that are driven, motivated and enabled by the Progenitor of first cause. Some wish to call this Progenitory Agent, God and ascribe all manner of characteristics. This is neither faith nor knowledge. It is ignorance at best and vain imaginings in the hands of the marketers of religion.
Science then becomes a description tool of an aspect or aspects of the unfolding of a predestined outcome. This predestined outcome unfolds via evolution. When sub-atomic particles became hydrogen atoms, if one could change their relative point of view then mastodons were already walking across the frozen tundra and men were walking on the moon.
So not only can you use science and spiritual knowledge together, the fact is, they can't be separated, even if you think you have done so or can. So people like Dawkins are just the other side of the coin. A literal, fundamentalist is of equal distance to the source of life as is the fundamentalist atheist. They are merely polar opposites.
It's not that you abandon science to become spiritual or visa versa, this harmonious state already exists, it just has to be recognised. Real, open-hearted science leads to the same epiphany as real religion, that a Progenitor force of perfection and love that we call God is the agent and source of every vibrating atom. The physical universe is laid down upon the matrix of a Divine all-conscious energy.
Now you answer something for me. Why?
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