God and String and Gravitons

Blogger's Block.  Either not enough to write about, or too many links to write about, or something on my mind too big to write about.

It's the latter.  And it seems that quite a few people are in the same space right now, but coming from different angles.  Even Scott Adams has written about the very same things.

Gravity is equally freaky. It influences things at an infinite distance without having any contact that we can see or, again, insulate against. Physicists postulate that maybe a massless particle called a graviton is at work, but none have ever been detected. Others think gravity has something to do with the state of a string, in unproven string theory, which is another way of saying we have no idea.

And that's where I've been recently, God, Science, String Theory, Gravitons, Photons, Zohar, Kabbalah, Big Bang, Steady State, Entanglement, Spirituality.

It's that middle ground between Creationists and Rationalists that I'm looking at, the thing Daryl Cook refers to as Integral Thought, but neither of us wants to commit to something developed by people we don't know anything about! Especially someone who calls themselves The Mother!! It could be inhabited by weird freaky people, just like Creationists and Rationalists!!

So I'm holding back, doing a bit of reading and research before I shoot down a few people who need shooting down!!  My starter is ordering Paul Feyerabend's autobiography Killing Time. 

I love science and I respect religion, but they both need to be held accountable for the bad that people have done in the name of science and religion.  My greatest fear is that "Science" becomes the New Religion, and no-one will notice the difference, and we'll have to have a Bill of Rights to protect kids from science!

Comments

[Daryl]

It's funny that you mention the middle ground. Buddha taught what he referred to as 'the Middle Way', a path that led to enlightenment by avoiding the extremes of sensory self-indulgence and self-mortification. Perhaps there is more to this teaching than just the physical aspect? Perhaps it applies also the metaphysical -- that we need to avoid the extremes and find meaning somewhere in the middle.