Science vs. Religion: (Chapter 6) (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, August 09, 2011, 00:57 (4855 days ago) @ xeno6696

First...-You invoke String Theory an awful lot here! If you're planning a revision, I would start with THIS chapter. You make so many references to this theoretical nether that I challenge you to rewrite the chapter without it! -Next, you discuss an instance (page 148) where you attempt to explain a "psychic" event. -Do you have any metal fillings? It has been known for some years that it is possible for (some) people to pick up radio signals through their teeth. -Once, when I was... about 14 or 15, I wrote the lyrics to the song "Closer," from "Nine Inch Nails," a full two years before I ever heard the song... when I first heard the song and felt the amazing "deja vu," I attributed it to grabbing radio waves that morning when the song first played. The song was first released May 1994, and I recall hearing it (without listening to the radio) for the first time sometime that summer. I hated the band when it first appeared... it wasn't until I heard THIS song for the first time that I realized there was a connection here... Maybe the youth of the country had an unconscious event then...?-The only other negative from this chapter involves your idea of the collective unconscious...-At what point can you deride dualism and advocate its existence as you do on pages 160, 167, 170, 172, and 173?-If you claim that mind and body are separate as you seem to do in all but in one portion where you attribute the entire body as conscience--as I subscribe to--how do you defeat the arguments against Cartesian dualism?-Finally, on page 173 you argue that "science is silent theologically..." How can you you possibly argue this without a discussion of what science is, what it does, and its implicit assumption of methodological materialism? -Before I print one word to the positive of this chapter, I require you to respond to at least THAT QUESTION...

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"