Bill:

Science and religion are surely ways of knowing.

If you thought of spiritual and mental and emotional and material phenomena as a continuous spectrum, which they could arguably be, you could say that religion tries to embrace the spectrum from the top down, while material science fights for the same candle from the bottom up.

While it is true that religions often go into a sort of sclerosis, science has been known to get stuck in odd corners, too, for a while. I concur that so far, science's methods are greatly preferable. But ya never know! :D


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