Exactly. I've been thinking of the "blank palette"; though we're not exactly that, so much of our being comes from culture. I was thinking how you have a "leaning" towards the Christ figure, that's because it's what you were taught. I'm trying to understand god through science.
Thanks again for your feedback — and yes, I agree that culture plays a huge role in shaping our spiritual imagination. My own draw toward the Christ figure is definitely rooted in my upbringing, but it’s also deepened over time through experience, reflection, and inner transformation.
I have a lot of respect for those who have made a commitment to science and I ove that you’re trying to understand God through science. I think has so much has been revealed through science — the vastness, intricacy, and interconnection of the universe. I think it is unfortunate that our culture has separated the two two paths in our search to understand our “selves” and what is “ out there, but for me, science and spirituality aren’t at odds.
There’s a stream of thought you’ve seen me refer to— called Process Theology — that tries to bring them together. It sees reality not as made of fixed things, but as a web of relationships and evolving events. In that view, God is present within the unfolding process itself — not breaking the laws of nature (not super-natural) but luring everything toward beauty, harmony, and novelty. This “luring” is not something that can be detected with scientific instruments but the evidence for its existence can be felt and discovered. In Process jargon it is described as “non-sensory perception” (not quite an empirical research project 😉).
So yes, I think we find God both through reason and experience — through telescopes and through tears, through quantum theory and quiet moments of prayer.
Exactly. I've been thinking of the "blank palette"; though we're not exactly that, so much of our being comes from culture. I was thinking how you have a "leaning" towards the Christ figure, that's because it's what you were taught. I'm trying to understand god through science.
Thanks again for your feedback — and yes, I agree that culture plays a huge role in shaping our spiritual imagination. My own draw toward the Christ figure is definitely rooted in my upbringing, but it’s also deepened over time through experience, reflection, and inner transformation.
I have a lot of respect for those who have made a commitment to science and I ove that you’re trying to understand God through science. I think has so much has been revealed through science — the vastness, intricacy, and interconnection of the universe. I think it is unfortunate that our culture has separated the two two paths in our search to understand our “selves” and what is “ out there, but for me, science and spirituality aren’t at odds.
There’s a stream of thought you’ve seen me refer to— called Process Theology — that tries to bring them together. It sees reality not as made of fixed things, but as a web of relationships and evolving events. In that view, God is present within the unfolding process itself — not breaking the laws of nature (not super-natural) but luring everything toward beauty, harmony, and novelty. This “luring” is not something that can be detected with scientific instruments but the evidence for its existence can be felt and discovered. In Process jargon it is described as “non-sensory perception” (not quite an empirical research project 😉).
So yes, I think we find God both through reason and experience — through telescopes and through tears, through quantum theory and quiet moments of prayer.