If anything we have lost abilities we once had with telepathy skills through the brute force of science. Have you read anything from the huge body of evidence (both anecdotal and from scientific research) on the subject? It’s enormous, but mostly ingored or suppressed by establishment science.

That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. Science says that lots of things are imaginary or fictitious that turn out later to be fact. Almost every great discovery of science was at one time said to have been fantasy.

I fail to see how belief in an ‘unknowable’ god – that is, a god without attributes or deeds – can help us understand ‘why’, if indeed there is a ‘why’. Surely an unknowable god is like an unknowable anything else, nothing more than a mystery. Is there a point in believing in a mystery (in the religious sense) other than the provision of a comfort blanket?

I believe that it’s our inability to come to terms with death, the fear of our own non-existence, which gives rise to our need for gods. If it helps people to believe that someone or something is watching over them, fine, but it’s got nothing to do with pursuit of knowledge. And if people evolve beyond the need for such beliefs the blame does not lie at the door of science.

Which is why we are where we are today.

It is not my opinion that science and religion must be diametrically opposed to one another. Instead, I have found, in the teachings of the Buddha, that science and religion actually tend to back one another up. According to the Buddha, we were already beings of the here and now, even before science got to us. Yes, science is based on theories, many of which have been updated with the accruance of knowledge. It seems to me that religious theories could use the same treatment.

The more we learn, we learn there is more to learn. Six hundred years ago the world was flat.

Generalizations are not a good idea.

**Bill adds: Very few people ever believed that the world is/was flat. The Flat Earth Society still exists today, but it has receive far more attention than it was worth. Earth has been known to be a globe since ancient times. The “flat earth” idea was a mouse roaring like a lion because people paid attention to it even though they didn’t believe it.

I do agree with Juke when said without science we´d still be sitting in our caves. However there is a chance you’ve misunderstood some of tiabuilder’s points. It’s not what science does but what we do with it. I mean, letting science tell us what to believe in blindfolded is just as dangerous as letting religion govern our lives blindfolded.

Moreover, I wouldn’t say it’s a pointless exercise believing in an “unknowable” god since “we cannot know that it created the universe.” Remember science can tell you “how” things happen but “why” things happen will always be theory and ,as any theory, subject to reconsideration and refitting.

I’d say trying to prove whether the mind, the soul, or God exist or not is quite a waste of time most times. It seems like you’re playing “my-dad-is-better-than-your-dad” just to prove yourself something which only really matters to you (no offense intended, don’t get me wrong here).

http://rengawman.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/hows-bout-a-little-theology/