Science and Religion

Ever since the dark of time, Science and Religion have been engaged in a tug of war.  Science was the realm of the philosophers and astrologers while Religion was in the hands of the Priesthood.  And this lead to a dualistic perception of reality.  There was good and evil... there was God and Satan as these forces opposed each other in a seemingty endless battle. 

It was the Greeks.  Somewhere between 400 and 600 B.C. the Greek philosophers realized that a third element was needed in order to explain reality.   Things could no longer be either black or white there had to be something in between.  Perhaps a shade of gray.  And the gap between philosophical thought and observation began to narrow.  Heaven and Hell had to have a purgatory.  The opposition between substance and form was mediated by activity.  And so it was for perhaps the next 2500 years.

Newton was the last giant to comment on the deterministic aspect of reality.  The measurement of the relationship between mass and distance as the reason for the attraction between two bodies and the ability to make rather precise measurements of the effect of gravity lead the world to a new understanding.
But it was Einstein who introduced the third element with his statement of the relativity of all things.

Thanks to Albert Einstein we are now traveling at light speed and there was no holding back on the development of human thought and an understanding of the universe we live in.  But it was Neils Bohr and the other physicists who developed the theories of quantum physics who brought us to where we are today and the opportunity to bring into play the third factor between Science and Religion and that is... Spirituality.

Next week I will tell you about the developments in quantum physics and how I think that this approach could answer a lot of questions about Science, Religion and Spirituality and what are the possibilities beyond that.  So keep tuned and don't be hesitant about asking questions or makinig comments.  This is easily done by posting a comment and I promise to answer every one.