Science & Spirituality

Understanding ways of thinking and knowing

Col. 2:8

Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.

Science: our Golem

• Science: test & measure• Scientific Methods• Theories: when we’re

scientifically sure• It’s all about evidence

more than authority• Scientific Laws: rare• Theories are applied to

test validity & vitality.

Spirituality

• A transformational experience

• Based on traditions and authority

• Self-developing and altruistic

• Many “flavors”

Science vs. Spirituality• Science can be smug

and dogmatic towards spirituality.

• Science can only “know” what it can measure.

• Spirituality works outside the realms of science.

• Spirituality too often looks to science for support.

Creation vs. Evolution

Forms of Evolution• Lamarkism

• Darwinian

• Neo-Darwinian

• Cataclysmic

• Theisitic

Forms of Creationism• Old-Earth/Intelligent Design• Young-Earth/Creationists

DNA & photons

The Double-Slit Experiment

Entanglement

Trajectory & Thought

• How do you stop an asteroid from hitting Earth?

• As early as possible with as little effort as possible.

Earth

Asteroid

The smallest push or pull, far enough away…

So what?!

• We can learn and know in several ways.

• “Unbelievable” things are becoming more believable.

• Don’t pin your spirituality on science.

• Don’t assume science trumps spirit.