"Can science explain religion?" - a Guardian Unlimited talk thread

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.7747b4fa/0


My response:

The best logical approach to understanding religion, or at least "God" that I've found is in reading the works of Thomas Troward. The Edinburgh and Dore lectures on mental science, and The creative process in the individual explain it rather well.

The problem really comes with proof, as attempting to use some kind of tool to identify and measure God means using a tool that's part of God in the first place. God isn't a thing that can be identified and measured, any more than infinity can be.

God is mystery, just as the huge gulf between understanding how something can be a wave and a particle at the same time is.

When science can find a unified field theory, and unite quantum physics with relativity, maybe it should think about having a crack at the God code. Till then, we should just be in awe of a mystery that transcends our intellect.

To understand God requires a leap of intellectual insight on a par with animals understanding abstract ideas. It requires thinking so far "out of the box", that it's like comparing non Euclidean geometry with Euclidean. It means using a completely different mindset. Using conventional science to understand God is like using rulers and protractors to plot coordinates in spacetime.