One of the 12 principles
of the Baha’i Faith is that science and religion must agree.
“God has endowed man with intelligence and reason whereby
he is required to determine the verity of questions and
propositions. If religious beliefs and opinions are found
contrary to the standards of science they are mere
superstitions and imaginations; for the antithesis of
knowledge is ignorance, and the child of ignorance is
superstition. Unquestionably there must be agreement
between true religion and science. If a question be found
contrary to reason, faith and belief in it are impossible…”
Abdu’l-Baha Baha’i World Faith, pg. 239.
A promising video
I came across this interview of a physicist on YouTube where the subject was expanded consciousness experiences like out of body experience, etc. It seems to me to be a good example where some of the science-minded are at least trying to see how science and religion agree. I don’t agree with some of their philosophies, but I still think they are on the right track.
From the transcript
One quote I liked from the video transcript (at about 1 hr, 18 min.):
“…you can see how all this stuff fits together and basically it’s all one thing then it’s not science over here and philosophy and religion and metaphysics over there it’s all one thing and you see that the objective world is just a subset of a larger world…”
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