The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73222   Message #1268038
Posted By: Little Hawk
09-Sep-04 - 07:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is there a god or not?
Subject: RE: BS: Is there a god or not?
It isn't that the inexplicables were explained by science, Alaska, so much as that the observable mechanics of the inexplicables were explained. Good poetry and good philosophy will always shed further light on matters of which mere knowledge of the mechanics does not suffice to illuminate. Science tells you what, where, when, and how. Poetry and spirituality tell you why. And that is the most interesting question of all. (and I do not mean "why" in the sense of cause and effect, but in the sense of consciousness and intention).

I say this as a great respecter of both science and spirituality. Science is the highest means of observations using the five senses, and equipment that extends the reach of the five senses. Spirituality is a means of inner experience that goes considerably beyond using the five senses. Science can build you a better vehicle. Spirituality and poetry can build you a better human being. (depending on what kind of spirituality it is...!)