These Thoughts Keep Me Up at Night

Science and Spirituality

For a long time, I thought that science and religion could never be integrated with each other. Both agree that there is only one correct answer, one truth, and therefore either science is correct or religion is correct, and never the twain shall meet.

But perhaps there is space for a merger, after all, both have the same goal. Namely, the search for truth. I agree that there is only one truth, but perhaps each field is saying the same things, only in different languages.

For instance, the Zen concept of "oneness" seems the same to me as the theory of quantum entanglement and the Big Bang theory. Two fields, using completly different methods, find the same conclusion.

Maybe scientists will prove what mystics and priests have known for centuries. But if science proves faith, doesn't that destroy faith by definition? And isn't religion without faith meaningless?

So I guess I'm back where I started, religion and science are incompatible. Everything I learn is circular.