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Old 01-04-2007, 08:59 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Sounds pretty poetic. You're saying that there's supernatural meaning behind love? "Why you love a person" is answered by a description of the biological impediment to couple and a variety of neural and physical responses. The person approaches you, you experience love. Why do you love this person? Because of the way the target of your love impinges upon your psyche (see neural architecture).

It covers both the why and the how.

As for why the universe exists.. Well, who can even begin to address this question.

I'm not saying that religion and science should be at conflict. I'm saying that the current incarnation of western religion (i.e. from Mesopotamia) is in conflict with free thought and science because of literal interpretation of metaphor. The term faith is simply a dirty word describing this literal view of things. Unfortunately

Science can, and repeatedly does, demonstrate how a dogmatic approach to a literally interpreted religion based on indoctrination is, in fact, in conflict with seeking both the question why, and how.

If the spirituality does not align with reality then it's a hindrance.
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