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Re: Help Please!
Pradip Gangopadhyay (pradip@lism.usc.edu) wrote:
: There will be a serious problem if God does come under the purview of
: science as a result of someone succesfully proving the existence of God using
: pure logic. Then the question will arise why our senses do not find any
: evidence of God? The failure of logic in proving the existence of God is
: strongly coupled to the fact that our senses fail to register any evidence of
: God.
Dear Pradipbabu:
Thank you for your explanations. My understanding of this issue is
slightly different. First, science is not just logic. It is also
observations, experience. There are many things that scientists deal
with that they can not explain right away, but they are under the
so-called 'purview' of science. Perhaps a great majority of issues in
science is like that.
I strongly feel that the experience of God is not beyond science.
In various statements in the upanishads, are scientific observations, for
example, the ishopanishad refers to the one law in the universe; that it
always changes. It also says that God (the one unmoving) moves faster than
the fastest in the universe; these are scientific observations, that
relate to the experience of God. Some other scientific observations
are statements like, the sun and the stars give light because that is
their Divinely given role, the wind blows for the same reason, etc.
There is no conflict between science and the experience of God, because,
all science does is, try to discover the laws that God has put in the
universe.
I know that some authors such as our own Dr. Debiprasad Chattopadhyay has
decided that there was a great conflict between scientists and mysticists
in ancient India. I have read his book (I also own a copy) that was
reviewed in the journal Nature. I believe that the idea of such a
conflict is false, beause the scientists were regarded as rishis too,
they authored the upanishads (such as the chhAndogya by UddAlaka Aruni).
With best regards,
Dhruba.
