"Religion without science is lame, science without religion is blind"- Einstein
For the past two weeks, my quality of life has been drastically improved by the presense of CheeseStrings. I feel like a five-year-old.
My religion class makes me happy. I'm still caught in semantics though. For the sake of the paper, I'm conflating faith/spirituality/religion, which really just makes it even harder to define. (Is worship necessarily a part of religion? How about cultures which acknowledge deities they don't revere?) Every reading I've been through suggests that everything from materialism to Marxism could be a religion, a possibility to which I am open. As for the other half, going by the conventional definition of science (structured empirical study of phenomena) ignores anything prior to the Enlightenment.
What do you all think though? Are all people inherently... religious/spiritual? Are all people inherently scientific? Can some things only be known via science or religion? Can some things be known through both? Wasn't this one of the TOK essay questions last year?
My religion class makes me happy. I'm still caught in semantics though. For the sake of the paper, I'm conflating faith/spirituality/religion, which really just makes it even harder to define. (Is worship necessarily a part of religion? How about cultures which acknowledge deities they don't revere?) Every reading I've been through suggests that everything from materialism to Marxism could be a religion, a possibility to which I am open. As for the other half, going by the conventional definition of science (structured empirical study of phenomena) ignores anything prior to the Enlightenment.
What do you all think though? Are all people inherently... religious/spiritual? Are all people inherently scientific? Can some things only be known via science or religion? Can some things be known through both? Wasn't this one of the TOK essay questions last year?