Of course science doesn’t provide all the answers — science is the process of finding them. A never-ending process. There isn’t some magical “science” that we eventually arrive at the has all the answers. Science is a continual, never-ending process.
Allan, what is your definition of spirituality? It sounds to me as if you can assign the term to any arbitrary thing that we don’t know much about or we can’t yet explain.
The moon was spiritual for millennia, but now that we know that it’s simply a big hunk of rock floating around our planet, the moon isn’t so exciting in the spiritual sense any more, is it? Bummer for the moon.
Ditto for the sun and the stars. Now that we know what stars really are, what say you about astrologists who use their “spirituality” to tell your fortune based on what animal shape some stars make in the sky? How is their spirituality any different than yours, or mine, or Pat Robertson’s or the Pope’s?
Did atoms and electrons and protons and DNA all fall within the realm of “spiritual” before we had them figured out? Probably. Now we see them as nothing more than cogs in our understanding of how the world and the universe works. My hunch is that string theory will eventually suffer the same fate. And then there will be another unknown that the spiritualists cling to as proof of a higher being until it too gets cast aside as a simple rule inherent to the operation of our universe.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to knock your or anyone else’s personal beliefs. I believe that religion plays a purpose (both good and bad) for humanity. My grandma goes to church every Sunday and it brings her a sense of purpose and peace, and that’s all that really matters. But in the grand scheme of things, I believe that it all ends up being a veil over the truths that people are either too lazy or scared to find out. The truth that we could be wiped out at any moment by an asteroid, gamma ray, galaxy collision, or a million other ways and all of our beliefs and spirituality will be wiped off the face of the universe along with us. Poof – back into the primordial space dust from which we all came.
Wait a minute… ashes to ashes, dust to dust. HOLY SHIT! Now I get it!!! 🙂
