tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213823657588992919.post3417192788281152026..comments2024-03-03T23:19:47.896-08:00Comments on Writing in the Woods - A.M. Guynes/Annikka Woods: Monday Maundering - Religion vs. ScienceA.M. Guynes/Annikka Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07614418902810540467noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213823657588992919.post-74549628412515583462013-07-03T16:58:00.459-07:002013-07-03T16:58:00.459-07:00This reminds me of something I posted on my own bl...This reminds me of something I posted on my own blog a while back on this topic.<br /><br />To my mind, the conflict between science and religion comes when people try to make religion/mythos work literally and make science work metaphorically. Hence the Adam and Eve example. In the story, they are the first -- but not the only -- people. Their names also mean "man" and "woman." So they are both individual characters in the story, and allegories for the human race. Every myth, parable, story, and history in religion has another meaning under the literal. Stopping at the literal inevitably creates misunderstanding of the truth that the story was meant to tell. In the Adam and Eve case, it's an origin story, a morality tale, and a lament of lost innocence. There is also more than one origin story in the Bible; The Towel of Babel is another one.<br /><br />Science lets you explore the literal, real world in fantastic detail. For some reason, we place more value on the literal and the real than we do on the mythical and the imagination. What has more power over our minds, in the end? Myth or reality? When does reality become myth, or vice versa?<br /><br />What's our place in it all? is the question that science and religion both seek to answer. They just do it in different ways. It's like if you do two different experiments, you get two different results. The fact that you get two results doesn't invalidate either or both. It just means that the results of each experiment are true for that experiment.<br /><br />That was probably more "insight" than you were looking for, lol.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15725049899131699912noreply@blogger.com