06-23-2021, 01:40 PM
Captain Genet, and everyone else on this board, most of whom are honest seekers of truth and justice, need to take account of the fact that the simple explanation of mechanical cause and effect cannot explain all things. I'm sorry that this simple and easy, limited explanation does not work. But life is not so simple.
This does not mean that every or any "supernatural" claim anyone makes is correct. Far from it. And science can be used to validate or debunk any claim that is made.
But science no longer supports the simple mechanical cause and effect theory either. Uncertainty and entanglement are built-in to reality. Learning and discovering the mechanical cause and effect principle enabled humans, especially in The West, to build machines. We are blest to a degree by these machines we have made. But we are too enamoured of our own creations, and too blind to their side effects. And our ability to build machines does not mean that the world is a machine. Instead, the universe is more like a great organism, or a great thought.
Nature includes the supernatural, meaning those events that cannot be explained mechanically. They may arise spontaneously--- by life, consciousness, thought, love, grace, and will. And evolution is the expansion and development of consciousness within life. Consciousness is the essence of being, and its source, and it is always now, not caused by the past. As Alan Watts says, the wake does not drive the ship. That is REALLY making the tail wag the dog!
This does not mean that every or any "supernatural" claim anyone makes is correct. Far from it. And science can be used to validate or debunk any claim that is made.
But science no longer supports the simple mechanical cause and effect theory either. Uncertainty and entanglement are built-in to reality. Learning and discovering the mechanical cause and effect principle enabled humans, especially in The West, to build machines. We are blest to a degree by these machines we have made. But we are too enamoured of our own creations, and too blind to their side effects. And our ability to build machines does not mean that the world is a machine. Instead, the universe is more like a great organism, or a great thought.
Nature includes the supernatural, meaning those events that cannot be explained mechanically. They may arise spontaneously--- by life, consciousness, thought, love, grace, and will. And evolution is the expansion and development of consciousness within life. Consciousness is the essence of being, and its source, and it is always now, not caused by the past. As Alan Watts says, the wake does not drive the ship. That is REALLY making the tail wag the dog!