07-09-2021, 04:15 PM
I am not of the persuasion that science should remain pure, objectivist, positivist, mechanical and determinist. Science essentially seeks the truth, and so as it evolves further in human society, it will converge with religion, while religion is undergoing the same process and is converging with science.
The issue then is to keep the integrity of both intact, while still realizing that the one truth and the one reality involves both. It can be a delicate balancing act. Both modern advanced science and mystical religion involves some achievement of skill and practice or initiation that is no casual or superficial matter. Teaching young earth creationism represents religion before modern evolution in society, and so can't converge with science and should not be taught as science. Purely determinist science also remains incompatible with religion or mysticism, and can't or shouldn't be allowed in church. But more-evolved kinds of religion or mysticism may indeed be combined with science in some modern, post-modern and new-age theories, and vice-versa.
The issue then is to keep the integrity of both intact, while still realizing that the one truth and the one reality involves both. It can be a delicate balancing act. Both modern advanced science and mystical religion involves some achievement of skill and practice or initiation that is no casual or superficial matter. Teaching young earth creationism represents religion before modern evolution in society, and so can't converge with science and should not be taught as science. Purely determinist science also remains incompatible with religion or mysticism, and can't or shouldn't be allowed in church. But more-evolved kinds of religion or mysticism may indeed be combined with science in some modern, post-modern and new-age theories, and vice-versa.