For the sake of wider spectrum's I'm going to say religion and spirituality. You don't have to be religious to be spiritual but that's another topic! The truth is this assumption that spirituality and science can't coexist is a recent (and dare I say ignorant?) perspective. Lets evaluate, yeah?
Muslims are extremely connected to science if you look at the actual teachings of Islam, Islam and science have been together since the middle ages. Buddhism is also extremely connected to science the Dalai Lama has said, "With the ever growing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a greater role to play reminding us of our humanity. There is no contradiction between the two. Each gives us valuable insights into the other. Both science and the teachings of the Buddha tell us of the fundamental unity of all things." The dissociation of science is a recent manipulation of leaders wanting mindless herds instead of educated masses, duh.
The problem lies in the fact that a lot of scientist are limited in their knowledge of religion/spirituality and a lot of religious people are limited in their knowledge of science. If both took the time to actually and unbiasedly evaluate the other they'd realize there's a lot in common. First of all lets take one of Newtons Laws, 'Energy can't be destroyed or created only transformed.' if you look at it from an open perspective you can say, hey that sounds a little like reincarnation granted not the literal sense of reincarnation. Our bodies are big balls of energy when we die that energy CANNOT, in the eyes of science, die it can only be transformed. What another example of scientific reincarnation? Isn't obvious, STARS! A star collapses in on itself all that's left over is the dust and after a shitload of time a new star is born out of those remnants. Hey, it's REBORN!
But lets have more examples of Spirituality and science coexisting. The spirituality of the Aztec, Maya, and the mother culture of the Toltec could NOT exist without science. ABSOLUTELY NO WAY. The Maya and Aztec inherited and enhanced one the most accurate and ancient calendars. In their ancient times they were one the the most advanced civilizations when it came to the calendar, mathematics and astronomy but of course that often gets neglected because teachers would rather spend more time talking about sacrifices. Malinowski said it himself, ''Primitive knowledge has been singularly neglected by anthropology." We assume that because a culture is tribal it is therefore unscientific completely sidestepping the fact that all tribal cultures are inseparable of nature. Nature is inseparable of science and it takes in depth observations of the earth and elements in order to time planting and harvesting. These aspects of spirituality become unfounded and 'primitive' because the culture would rather imbue these elements and facts of nature with respect. The idea that spirituality and science can't be friends is ridiculous maybe it has to do with the fact that the definition and idea of religion has morphed so much from it's original meaning that we can no longer see the similarities.
Not all religious/spiritual beliefs will be scientific for example legends and myths. For as far fetched as they sound we realize that they're stories meant to teach us morals and all that good stuff. The second we take things literally is the second we fail to see that science and spirituality can form a nice cohesive mix.
Muslims are extremely connected to science if you look at the actual teachings of Islam, Islam and science have been together since the middle ages. Buddhism is also extremely connected to science the Dalai Lama has said, "With the ever growing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a greater role to play reminding us of our humanity. There is no contradiction between the two. Each gives us valuable insights into the other. Both science and the teachings of the Buddha tell us of the fundamental unity of all things." The dissociation of science is a recent manipulation of leaders wanting mindless herds instead of educated masses, duh.
The problem lies in the fact that a lot of scientist are limited in their knowledge of religion/spirituality and a lot of religious people are limited in their knowledge of science. If both took the time to actually and unbiasedly evaluate the other they'd realize there's a lot in common. First of all lets take one of Newtons Laws, 'Energy can't be destroyed or created only transformed.' if you look at it from an open perspective you can say, hey that sounds a little like reincarnation granted not the literal sense of reincarnation. Our bodies are big balls of energy when we die that energy CANNOT, in the eyes of science, die it can only be transformed. What another example of scientific reincarnation? Isn't obvious, STARS! A star collapses in on itself all that's left over is the dust and after a shitload of time a new star is born out of those remnants. Hey, it's REBORN!
But lets have more examples of Spirituality and science coexisting. The spirituality of the Aztec, Maya, and the mother culture of the Toltec could NOT exist without science. ABSOLUTELY NO WAY. The Maya and Aztec inherited and enhanced one the most accurate and ancient calendars. In their ancient times they were one the the most advanced civilizations when it came to the calendar, mathematics and astronomy but of course that often gets neglected because teachers would rather spend more time talking about sacrifices. Malinowski said it himself, ''Primitive knowledge has been singularly neglected by anthropology." We assume that because a culture is tribal it is therefore unscientific completely sidestepping the fact that all tribal cultures are inseparable of nature. Nature is inseparable of science and it takes in depth observations of the earth and elements in order to time planting and harvesting. These aspects of spirituality become unfounded and 'primitive' because the culture would rather imbue these elements and facts of nature with respect. The idea that spirituality and science can't be friends is ridiculous maybe it has to do with the fact that the definition and idea of religion has morphed so much from it's original meaning that we can no longer see the similarities.
Not all religious/spiritual beliefs will be scientific for example legends and myths. For as far fetched as they sound we realize that they're stories meant to teach us morals and all that good stuff. The second we take things literally is the second we fail to see that science and spirituality can form a nice cohesive mix.
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