Science Vs. Spirituality

Sight is a wonderful thing. It is one of the main ways we understand the world around us. Shapes colours, faces, danger, size the list goes on and on. We can see the face of a loved one and it will make us happy or see a shark in the water and send adrenaline pumping through our bodies.

We could get by with one eye. We would see just fine, the same colours and faces. Everything would be the same except, we would be without stereo vision and depth perception. Somehow our brain takes two different images and fuses them into one that we can understand and get more information out of just the one image alone.

Perhaps I am just slow, but as far as I can tell, science and spirituality are ways of understanding the world. As humans we have very limited senses. Our eyes can only see so far, our ears can hear only limited frequencies, our noses are almost useless and we can only feel something if we touch it. Apparently we have taste buds to make us fat.

Humans being a somewhat inventive species, have figured out ways of extending our senses with machines. We can take information we would otherwise not be able to detect and translate it into something we can understand. (radar makes it possible to see things we cannot see, as do telescopes and microscopes etc. etc.)

I could go on with this, but I am lazy. My point being science tells us about things we can see and detect, in other words it tells us about the material world, the macro and the micro world that affects us everyday. Using this science we have found that the probability of spontaneous life generation is 1 in 10 to the 100,000,000,000 power. That is a one with a 100,000,000,000 zeroes behind it. Essentially, impossible. I wish I knew how reputable this information is but unfortunately I don't. I have read it from a few sources, but they could all lead back to some fundamentalist wacko, so be warned.

Spirituality is how many people like to see the world and make sense of it. From the ancients who didn't really know any different, to modern man who knows that some of what he believes is suspect but firmly believes in the principles that have been passed down generation to generation, and know that there is some fundamental truth to most faiths. How do we know there is truth in faith (or God)? My short and simple answer is, we are still here, and so is faith, so something about it works.

I don't truly understand the problem between Science and Faith. They both meld in my brain and form my understanding of life. How I should think and act are informed by my understanding and thirst for more understanding from both of these wonderful subjects. I think the main friction between the two comes down to POWER and CONTROL. Something neither field should be dabbling in but both seem obsessed with. The power over minds and control of money time and resources.

And, stop.