The integration of science and religion
  • Art48
    488
    Below is a rather long (51 minutes) video of mine that describes in detail how to integrate science and religion. Comments appreciated, here and/or on YouTube!

    108 - Religion 2.0 (Science+Religion)
    https://youtu.be/PvFNc_TuGxs

    Contents:
    1) Welcome!
    a. Alan Watts’ Quote
    b. What is a Worldview?
    2) Religion 1.0
    a. Question: What happens after I die?
    b. Question: Is Jesus God or just a prophet?
    c. Question: According to Christianity, how can I be saved?
    d. Religions diverge and have failed to find truth.
    e. How religions decide what is true
    f. Religion 1.0 and Science
    g. Why believe in God?
    h. What about Faith?
    3) The Perennial Philosophy
    a. Where religions intersect
    b. Aldous Huxley’s “The Perennial Philosophy”
    c. What is mysticism?
    d. Mystics speak the same language
    e. Essential ideas of the perennial philosophy
    4) Religion 2.0
    a. Fundamental idea: The cosmos is the manifestation of a Divine Ground
    b. Fundamental idea: The cosmos is the manifestation of a Divine Ground
    c. Fundamental idea: The cosmos is the manifestation of a Divine Ground
    d. Does calling the ground “Divine” (i.e., God) make sense?
    e. The Divine Ground is God, but not a God who is a Person
    f. Gods who are Persons are personification of the one, universal God
    g. Basic idea: 2. We can experience the Ground by a direct intuition
    h. Direct experience of the Divine Ground
    i. Basic idea: 3. Dual nature: transitory ego and a deeper, more enduring self
    j. Basic idea: 4. Life’s ultimate purpose: to identify with eternal Self, unitive knowledge
    5) Religion 2.0 and Science
    a. Are the four basic ideas testable and repeatable?
    b. Comparing Ontology (What Exists)
    c. Comparing Epistemology (How to determine what is true)
    d. Religion 1.0, Religion 2.0, and Science Compared
    e. Religion 2.0 as a scientific theory
    f. Conclusion: Religion 2.0 is compatible with science
    6) Consequences and Related Topics
    a. Does it matter?
    b. The Contemplative Way
    c. ogis and the Desert Fathers
    d. Morality (Contemplative Morality)
    e. Approaching God from within the world
    f. Eternal Life and Salvation
    g. Religion 1.0’s God are Personifications of the One
    h. Rituals, Ceremonies, Entheogens
    7) Afterword
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  • alan1000
    210
    I respect the labour you have evidently put into this question, Art48, but before I invest 51 miinutes of my life in watching a video, I would like to see a summary in advance of how you have resolved the fundamental logical contradictions between the scientific and religious models of knowledge?

    1. In religion, it is the greatest virtue to cling faithfully to your belief, no matter how persuasive, seductive, or conclusive the counter-arguments may seem to be; in science, this is the greatest "sin".

    2. In religion, truth is absolute, incontrovertible, and underwritten by the revelation of a supernatural being; in science, there is no "truth"*, only a collection of approximations which seem to be reasonably applicable most of the time, but which may be overturned by fresh observations or insights at any moment.

    3. In science, a theory or hypothesis is valued according to two fundamental criteria: does it account for the presently-known data? And, does it form a basis for predicting the future? This is important; thanks to this model, we have doctors, government, and aeroplanes. Religious knowledge cannot account for the known data (unless we admit "That's just the way God made it', which is trivial and non-informative); nor can it predict the future, except insofar as this can be guaranteed by thoughts and prayers, or belief in Divine Retribution, or a Judgement Day, or some such concept, none of which can be demonstrated to have a useful predictive value.

    * I am speaking, of course, with regard to theory and hypothesis. Within a closed logical system such as mathematics, for example, it is possible to speak of a propostion as unconditionally true or false.
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