RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
January 4, 2016 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2016 at 6:16 pm by Mystic.)
(January 4, 2016 at 5:51 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(January 4, 2016 at 4:26 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: What scientific evidence is there to prove human worth or value?
Did you base your belief in human value on science or other then that?
Do you believe humans before scientific method were justified in believing in human value or not?
Mystic,
It IS science though. It is the science of of our species, and how we evolved. Having a sense of value and empathy is advantageous to our survival. Maybe we didn't alway have scientific language to describe it, but that is what science is. Continual progress and advancement.
Scientific evidence can prove we have a sense of value or human worth. It can even give theories to how we got that sense and perception. But I don't think it can prove that there is a such thing. Even if it did, how many humans justify their belief in human value through science. What about humans before the scientific method.
The point I'm trying to make, science isn't everything we know. The most fundamental language we have is that of love. Love teaches us how to act with different people, form relationships, how to honor our parents, how to raise our children, etc...
The Theists believes love also teaches about the divine source, and our link to it, that we also have a soul/heart. Sometimes not everything is about proofs or evidence, while I do believe there is proofs of God and evidence for her.
In the case of love, you teach your kids love through love, and they have love and can appreciate your love, you raise them with showing some wisdom, of course, they overly trust you so will learn wrong things from you, however, that is not to say, you have to prove to your children everything from the scientific method.
I believe similarly we do have light of God with us, and the light doesn't simply manifest beautiful qualities of God, but rather it manifests it's eternal existence, it's reality, it being truth in the same way we can witness we ourselves exist.
Of course, all we can is remind about it really, signs and proofs will all make use of reminders of it's reality but if a person wants to deny every property that we know of that points to us to it's existence, then nothing can be done to prove to that person.
My point with all this, is that, we aren't the only ones relying on other then science or believing in things without either empirical evidence or philosophical proofs.
