After Science, What's Left For Religion? (reject, salvation, beliefs, evolution)

[BFD_Zayl]

Theres somethings science can never explain, like what happens to the mind after the body dies? i hardly doubt it just ceases to exist, it carries on.

[robtex]

Originally Posted by BFD_Zayl

Theres somethings science can never explain, like what happens to the mind after the body dies? i hardly doubt it just ceases to exist, it carries on.

bad news for you. When ones body functions cease the brain dies. No blood to brain (a body function) = dead brain.

[BFD_Zayl]

Originally Posted by robtex

bad news for you. When ones body functions cease the brain dies. No blood to brain (a body function) = dead brain.

ah, but the mind and the brain are two different things, the brain is only a physical interface for the mind.

[Neale]

Originally Posted by BruceDLimber

...Science explains HOW. Religion explains WHO and WHY...

Very nice point! While I do agree with the overwhelming majority for this thread, I still think there's one thing left to consider: PHILOSOPHY.

Do you all feel that modern philosophy changed religion? Do the grounds of logic and reason pay heed to the "gaps" left by theological thought? Does modern metaphyiscs (the philosophical "genre," not the tarot/astrology/etc.) yield itself to aid theology, or does it break it down?

[Spirit Channeller]

Originally Posted by robtex

bad news for you. When ones body functions cease the brain dies. No blood to brain (a body function) = dead brain.

I would like to say here, after communicating with relatives and others in the After life for many years on a daily basis, I am certain when the human body dies, the Spirit leaves the body and takes with it all its memories and intelligence to the after life and can communicate back to earth through those who want to communicate with them and they can go on with ideas they didn't have time to finish while they were here on Earth and one day when I or you and everyone for that matter get to the Spirit World they too can return and communicate though people here on Earth.
I of course cannot prove this to others and everyone has to learn to communicate and find their own truth because only those who have developed the abilities to see spirit and hear them and speak to them can be certain for themselves at least that all of this is true.

[Jayhawker Soule]

Originally Posted by Spirit Channeller

I would like to say here, after communicating with relatives and others in the After life for many years on a daily basis, I am certain ...

That's odd. The last time I communicated with my dead Venusian relatives, they told me that a bunch of pathetic charletans were impersonating your dead relatives, and repetedly warned me to focus on science and dismiss the mindless babble from the lunatic fringe. Of course, the validity of all such communication is highly suspect, so I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you ...

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by Neale

Do you all feel that modern philosophy changed religion? Do the grounds of logic and reason pay heed to the "gaps" left by theological thought? Does modern metaphyiscs (the philosophical "genre," not the tarot/astrology/etc.) yield itself to aid theology, or does it break it down?

I'm curious: How would you respond to your own questions, Neale?

[Jayhawker Soule]

Originally Posted by BruceDLimber

Science explains HOW. Religion explains WHO and WHY.

No. Some religious dogma purports to "explains WHO and WHY" and some do not, suggesting instead that "WHO and WHY" are inexplicable or cognitively meaningless. What, for example, is the "WHO and WHY" of Zen or Daoism?