Unity of Mankind
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I think humans have always been a separate life form than all other life forms on earth. Historically they are the only life form which was able to wonder about the physicality of forces in nature around them and even in degrees to harness nature for their benefit. Thus scientific inquiry and knowledge progressed in stages.
What I remember about scientific inquiry is that an important starting point is to come up with a hypothesis and then test it. In my opinion humans must reach, so to speak, inside themselves in order to hypothesize. To date no other earthly life form other than human has done that. So is such a human quality a physical or a spiritual reality? In my opinion it is a spiritual reality which of necessity involves religion. Otherwise why is it that humans constitute the only life form wherein science has evolved?
Yet scientific inquiry and knowledge is a double edged sword as it can be used either for constructive or beneficial uses or for destructive or malevolent uses. If it is used malevolently then humans are their worst enemy and even constitute a threat to the entire planet.
When I think about it what I think is most destructive to religion is for humans to interject into it superstitions. Historically I think the Founders of the great religions of the world cleansed religion of all superstitions but later humans interjected them into it again! Consequently, collectively speaking humans either became religious believers, agnostics, or atheists.
Personally, I am in the category of believer. What I think science and religion have in common is that both science and religion comes to humanity in stages. If that is true it is reflective of evolution of all life forms on earth.
Whereas the mechanism of progress in science is human inquiry it is, in my opinion, crucial to ask what the mechanism of progress is in religion. It is according to my belief and opinion that the vital life giving mechanism of progress in religion, which comes to humankind incrementally in stages, are, and will always be in the future, arise with the Founders of religions such as a Moses, a Jesus, and a Mohammad. For me personally Baha’u’llah represents God’s latest Revelation of religious truth at this most critical stage of the development of human life on the planet.
What I remember about scientific inquiry is that an important starting point is to come up with a hypothesis and then test it. In my opinion humans must reach, so to speak, inside themselves in order to hypothesize. To date no other earthly life form other than human has done that. So is such a human quality a physical or a spiritual reality? In my opinion it is a spiritual reality which of necessity involves religion. Otherwise why is it that humans constitute the only life form wherein science has evolved?
Yet scientific inquiry and knowledge is a double edged sword as it can be used either for constructive or beneficial uses or for destructive or malevolent uses. If it is used malevolently then humans are their worst enemy and even constitute a threat to the entire planet.
When I think about it what I think is most destructive to religion is for humans to interject into it superstitions. Historically I think the Founders of the great religions of the world cleansed religion of all superstitions but later humans interjected them into it again! Consequently, collectively speaking humans either became religious believers, agnostics, or atheists.
Personally, I am in the category of believer. What I think science and religion have in common is that both science and religion comes to humanity in stages. If that is true it is reflective of evolution of all life forms on earth.
Whereas the mechanism of progress in science is human inquiry it is, in my opinion, crucial to ask what the mechanism of progress is in religion. It is according to my belief and opinion that the vital life giving mechanism of progress in religion, which comes to humankind incrementally in stages, are, and will always be in the future, arise with the Founders of religions such as a Moses, a Jesus, and a Mohammad. For me personally Baha’u’llah represents God’s latest Revelation of religious truth at this most critical stage of the development of human life on the planet.