Over most of human history science did a vastly better job of locating the truth—by burning down the alternatives—than did religion's wild stabs in t… - Ken Wharton
" "Over most of human history science did a vastly better job of locating the truth—by burning down the alternatives—than did religion's wild stabs in the dark. And eventually, thanks to science, there wasn't much darkness left. And—to no great surprise—in the small patch of darkness where science had cornered truth, there wasn't a single traditional religion left.
"Yes, most religions claimed they fit in with modern science, but it was usually science that they were warping to fit their religion."
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Ken Wharton is a physics professor at San Jose State University and science fiction writer.
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The truth is so simple, and yet I tremble as I put it into words. On a cosmological scale, the universe is symmetric in time. What we know as God is simply the collective consciousness traveling opposite to our temporal orientation. God’s realm is our unknowable future; everything that is real to Him remains only possibility to us. Ironically, the reverse is also true: The reality of our past remains unknown to God.
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Feelings of desperation clouded his mind. Could this be? Was this the final trap of a “provable” religion based purely on science? Was it inevitable that advances in scientific knowledge would disprove any religion, given enough time? And if science kept advancing, if they could never know everything, then no religion could ever be eternally true. In his last sermon Paul had claimed that science had backed God into a tiny corner of the unknown; but what if known science was the tiny corner, and the unknown lay vaster than anyone had imagined? If so, how could any religion ever claim to be compatible with science?
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