Science forever provides new theories to make this measurement as precise as possible. But as our knowledge of things evolves, older theories aren't big enough to encompass the new things we've learned. Thus the history of science becomes the history of exploded hypotheses. Which is fine ... one learns from one's mistakes.
It is bizarre that each generation, including the one in which we now
find ourselves, believes it has found the ultimate truth, or near to it
... to such an extent that those who believe it to be so have as much
conviction as, as much faith as, if not more than any religious fanatic.
Science only deals with matter, and has come to assume that there is
nothing beyond matter; to assume that there is nothing beyond that which
can be measured.
Has modern medicine reduced illness, infectious diseases or infant mortality? More diseases have increased than have been reduced. It is being increasingly recognised that each individual is unique and therefore there is no one golden cure-all bullet. Dealing with symptoms doesn't get to the root cause ... it lies in the manner in which a being thinks, acts, feels and responds to stimuli.
Has science, with its marvels of invention, made people happier? It has made many labour saving devices but has also produced others to fill the time saved, so that increasingly we spend more and more time locked in our thinking processes. Neuroses are becoming more common.
Neither is criticising science in any way rewarding. Science has its purpose. But to let ourselves become convinced that the material world is dominant, and that we are mere machines that must always act mechanically according to the coding of our DNA, is to hang ourselves on yet another hypothesis which will in a future time, in its turn, be exploded.
Maybe it's time that we stopped our frantic search for happiness brought by the latest gadget which will soon be outdated to be replaced by the next.
Just over two thousand years ago, a great teacher told us that heaven, universal consciousness, is within. The truth isn't 'out there'. Happiness is an inside job.
The great quantum physicist Max Planck arrived at this conclusion when he peered deep into the sub-atomic world, and discovered that all is energy, including our bodies, our minds and our emotions.
Has modern medicine reduced illness, infectious diseases or infant mortality? More diseases have increased than have been reduced. It is being increasingly recognised that each individual is unique and therefore there is no one golden cure-all bullet. Dealing with symptoms doesn't get to the root cause ... it lies in the manner in which a being thinks, acts, feels and responds to stimuli.
Has science, with its marvels of invention, made people happier? It has made many labour saving devices but has also produced others to fill the time saved, so that increasingly we spend more and more time locked in our thinking processes. Neuroses are becoming more common.
Neither is criticising science in any way rewarding. Science has its purpose. But to let ourselves become convinced that the material world is dominant, and that we are mere machines that must always act mechanically according to the coding of our DNA, is to hang ourselves on yet another hypothesis which will in a future time, in its turn, be exploded.
Maybe it's time that we stopped our frantic search for happiness brought by the latest gadget which will soon be outdated to be replaced by the next.
Just over two thousand years ago, a great teacher told us that heaven, universal consciousness, is within. The truth isn't 'out there'. Happiness is an inside job.
The great quantum physicist Max Planck arrived at this conclusion when he peered deep into the sub-atomic world, and discovered that all is energy, including our bodies, our minds and our emotions.
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