its human nature i suppose
the ego loves to think that the miracle that is 'conciousness' is no container for our infinite energy, and that when this miracle is withdrawn we will still be able to sail on through the cosmos...on a molecular level, this is true, energy is never destroyed.

Personally i think science and spirituality are on a collision course with the boundary between both becoming ever more blurred. We live in exciting times!
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 11:27, 1 reply)

my father used to be
the secretary of the Society of Ordained Scientists, amongst other similar groups. The only way he could marry his faith to his scientific belief in evidence was to make his version of Christianity so abstract as to be nothing more than a philosophy and guide to life.

We had some extraordinarily long-winded and essentially pointless arguments that inevitably boiled down to

'Science deals in proof or at the very least, probability, correct?'
'Yes'
'Your religious beliefs cannot be proven and are, at the very least, improbable, correct?'
'No'
'Prove it'
'I can't'

*sigh*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 15:17, closed)