Asking Why, Asking How
Why are we here?
How did we get here?
Is religion a science?
Is science a religion?
What is the difference?
How can we tell?
Why does it matter?
Before beginning to ponder the answers to life we must first set aside organized religion for a moment, and focus on the dichotomy of humanity that is ethereal and physical, noumenal and phenomenal. Organized religion and its relative functions can be applicable to faith in science and faith in the idol of God. For the most part, religion must be separated from God. Religion casts the human form upon God and turns the idea of God into a physical idol. Zoroastrianism is the only religion to break the phenomenal form of God. Buddhism, Christianity, Sikhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam all cast God into a physical being, a creation. But if God is created, God cannot be the ultimate, so therefore anything that is defined and manifested into phenomenal forms is not God. Humans in creating God do not worship God. God is not man, woman, beast or spirit. God can neither be sensed nor understood. But for this argument I simply wish to focus on God and Science as the answers to "Why" and "How" respectively.
When asking the question "Why?" there will come a point where the answer is unexplainable. The answer itself will fall from the realm of definition where no human mind can comprehend it. This is God. God is the ultimate, the last answer to the question why. God is undefined and boundless. Therefore any definition or manifestation makes God material and created, destroying the state of continuous creation. When there is no answer left, you have reached the boundlessness of God. As an exercise ask yourself "Why" to any part of reality, then ask "Why" again and again until you loose the ability to answer it, what is left is God, for the answers to "Why" can only be explained up to the definition of our reality, our physical laws. The laws which govern our reality are palatable due to science. Mathematics and physics are the laws by which the "How" of our reality exists. A dove cannot grow outside of the laws it is governed by, nor could any star in our universe. We have the laws, but we do not know why. Our existence is defined and bounded by the laws. And we cannot break them. Leaving only our imagination, our unmade creativity to construct a figure, a human figure, sitting outside of our realm controlling us. This manifestation of God as a father, creator figure is how we bridge our laws and our inability to answer "Why."
When asking the question "How?" the ultimate, final, explanation is in science, the phenomenal realm of math, chemistry, physics and so forth. Anything that is tangible can be explained by science, while God is the end of everything ethereal. When we humans want the answer to how our world functions we examine it, we study the universe's molecules and atoms. We cut into our realm of reality for knowledge. This is science, knowledge of our reality. How a tree grows and how water forms can be explained in terms understandable to the human mind. We must make God into this form of understanding to even grasp a concept of what God is, or could be. Therefore, when searching for the two basic answers to our phenomenal reality, we are bounded by the physical laws as explained through science. What lies beyond the physical is the noumenal existence that is inconceivable, no matter how smart we humans have become. The answer to “Why” lives outside of our physical being and thus no physical answer can suffice.
How did we get here?
Is religion a science?
Is science a religion?
What is the difference?
How can we tell?
Why does it matter?
Before beginning to ponder the answers to life we must first set aside organized religion for a moment, and focus on the dichotomy of humanity that is ethereal and physical, noumenal and phenomenal. Organized religion and its relative functions can be applicable to faith in science and faith in the idol of God. For the most part, religion must be separated from God. Religion casts the human form upon God and turns the idea of God into a physical idol. Zoroastrianism is the only religion to break the phenomenal form of God. Buddhism, Christianity, Sikhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam all cast God into a physical being, a creation. But if God is created, God cannot be the ultimate, so therefore anything that is defined and manifested into phenomenal forms is not God. Humans in creating God do not worship God. God is not man, woman, beast or spirit. God can neither be sensed nor understood. But for this argument I simply wish to focus on God and Science as the answers to "Why" and "How" respectively.
When asking the question "Why?" there will come a point where the answer is unexplainable. The answer itself will fall from the realm of definition where no human mind can comprehend it. This is God. God is the ultimate, the last answer to the question why. God is undefined and boundless. Therefore any definition or manifestation makes God material and created, destroying the state of continuous creation. When there is no answer left, you have reached the boundlessness of God. As an exercise ask yourself "Why" to any part of reality, then ask "Why" again and again until you loose the ability to answer it, what is left is God, for the answers to "Why" can only be explained up to the definition of our reality, our physical laws. The laws which govern our reality are palatable due to science. Mathematics and physics are the laws by which the "How" of our reality exists. A dove cannot grow outside of the laws it is governed by, nor could any star in our universe. We have the laws, but we do not know why. Our existence is defined and bounded by the laws. And we cannot break them. Leaving only our imagination, our unmade creativity to construct a figure, a human figure, sitting outside of our realm controlling us. This manifestation of God as a father, creator figure is how we bridge our laws and our inability to answer "Why."
When asking the question "How?" the ultimate, final, explanation is in science, the phenomenal realm of math, chemistry, physics and so forth. Anything that is tangible can be explained by science, while God is the end of everything ethereal. When we humans want the answer to how our world functions we examine it, we study the universe's molecules and atoms. We cut into our realm of reality for knowledge. This is science, knowledge of our reality. How a tree grows and how water forms can be explained in terms understandable to the human mind. We must make God into this form of understanding to even grasp a concept of what God is, or could be. Therefore, when searching for the two basic answers to our phenomenal reality, we are bounded by the physical laws as explained through science. What lies beyond the physical is the noumenal existence that is inconceivable, no matter how smart we humans have become. The answer to “Why” lives outside of our physical being and thus no physical answer can suffice.
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