(February 5, 2012 at 2:57 pm)Abracadabra Wrote: They are two entirely different things.
That is exactly my point. They cannot be done at the same time. Either you do one or the other at any given moment, and doing one distracts from the other. Rationality and irrationality co-mingling is never productive. As can be simply demonstrated by any discussion whatsoever where the two try to coexist; including the threads where you start to inject your superstition (mild as it is) into the discussion.
And you still haven't answered why you insist on clinging to the spiritual terms even when you admit yourself that they are entirely different from science. Unless it is purely because you wish for them to be true. In which case, you are actively and knowingly pursuing meaningless wish-thinking.