Science and Religion

Quantum Kabbalistic Platonism & the sophistication of reality: Metaphysical/religious questions which we assume are meaningful (was the universe designed/created) may be in fact as meaningless as are classical-physics questions (“where exactly is the particle”/”which slit did the photon go through”) posed about physical reality at the quantum level. Read more about this approach.

The Alleged Conflict between Science and Religion is a Hoax: Science is a programmatic attempt to find naturalistic explanations for objectively observable phenomena, whereas religion assumes the existence of a realm which is by definition beyond the natural; many of the supposed 'conflicts' between science and religion are due to a misunderstanding of the ramifications of this fundamental difference between them, and a misconstrual of what science or religion actually claim.

Some religious fundamentalist claim to be able to 'prove' that there's a God, that the Torah is divinely revealed truth, or perhaps that the universe is only 6,000 years old and can prove that scientific origin theory is wrong or even a pack of lies. Some atheists claim they have scientific or philosophical proof of the opposite. My approach is against both of these extremes: equally against alleged 'proofs' and 'disproofs' of religion or science. To my mind, religion (or more specifically Traditional Judaism, with which I am more familiar) is neither provable nor disprovable, and claims that it is (one or the other) are – to me – equally false.

Perhaps not all humans possess conscious awareness.This would explain the impossibility of bridging the gap between materialist atheists and those who are spiritual/religious.Read more about "Mindless Materialists".

Cosmology, morality and religion are intertwined: read "What I believe, and what I know about my belief."

Human significance and existentialist despair: Is humanity significant in the universe? Has science somehow proved that we are not? Did religion claim that Earth is at the center of the universe, and did science disprove this claim and therefore overthrow the Bible? Read more

When one wishes to build a computer model, the more spohisticated the model the more complex the programming will need to be and indeed the more sophisticated the computer will have to be. To produce a universe which is simply a structureless cloud of dust - which is what scientific cosmology considers it to be - one needs a very sophisticated set of laws of nature, and one can find something about the initial state of such a universe via Einstein's theory of general relativity, and other physics theories.

What if we wish to model a universe in which Mind is the most fundamental aspect; what would the initial stat of the universe need to be like? And what would need to underlie a universe in which there is true Free Will? And if there is Absolute Morality, good/evil, or just some type of karmic effect of one''s actions? If even some of astrology was valid, what would the universe have to be like at its most fundamental level? Read more.