Scientific Thinking
"Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding the answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness."
— J. Frank Dobie
Most people avoid the truth. Scientists imagine they find it.
Science is an imaginary process in which a scientific observer closes his (or her) mind to everything he knows, within, and measures everything he can see or otherwise observe with the senses or with the aid of scientific instruments, and then tries to figure out what it is that he knows, based upon these observations. Actually, this is too kind a view of science. In fact, scientists use the same mental framework of understanding that their predecessors and colleagues use — they carry all of the worthless past programming and limited thinking of all the "authorities" in their field, and at best perpetuate it or extrapolate upon it. This is precisely the opposite way to know the truth of anything, in reality.
Any of the great scientists of the past who really discovered some aspect of the truth of things found inspiration (or higher principle) within them — first — and then set about trying to verify that inner knowing with observable facts. In other words, they knew the truth first, and then verified it. Today, scientists propose the most grand theories — and as long as they cannot be "disproved" by some other approach — take them as "true." Are published scientific results necessarily true? No. Newsweek, in an article on "junk science" quoted Harvard University science historians saying, "equating 'good' science with 'generally accepted' science ... betrays ... ignorance of the fact that almost every generally accepted view was once deemed eccentric or heretical." The article noted that "Peer review ... is not all it's cracked up to be. Whole shelves of studies have attacked science's gatekeeper." Scientific fraud and cover-ups are rampant. Clearly, much scientific work is deluded, since the scientific method by definition excludes what cannot be observed from being part of truth and reality. And, the largest part of Truth and Reality is not observed in this world.
Science has a ready answer for any problem: what you cannot see or do not know about or cannot prove cannot hurt you. But it can, and does. You cannot see evil, per se, but you can see it acting through individuals and institutions, even countries. You cannot see spirit, but it exists and continues after the physical (observable) body dies. Science would tell you that all of your problems begin at birth and end at death — there is nothing else. Science takes great egotistical pride in denying the reality or truth of anything spiritual, anything that goes beyond the physical, measurable world. But, think about it, are not all the more important issues in life out of the realm of science? Can ethics be reduced to science, can art be reduced to science, can the purpose of life be reduced to science, can love be reduced to science, can the issue of good and evil be reduced to science? The high priests of science imagine so. read more ...
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