However, religion, philosophy, and science exist for different purposes and serve to discover and reveal two different types of truth, all of which is absolutely true. The two different types of truth about the world i would broadly categorize as physical (or scientific) truth, and the other i would categorize as an emotional (or spiritual) truth. Here’s a short illustration of both types of truths at play with each other.
One day, a little girl asks her mother, “So how did I come into being?”
Her mother responded, “You were conceived from the love that your father and I had for each other.”
This little girl grew up and went to a biology class, learned some basic biology about human reproduction then got really upset. She went home, and shouted at her mother, “You LIED TO ME! You said that I came into being because you and Daddy loved each other, but today I learned that because Daddy’s sperm got into your egg that I was conceived!”
Guess what I am saying is that although science is really good at discovering the physical (or scientific) truth of the matter, the scientific truth doesn’t therefore disprove the emotional (or spiritual) truth that the girl was conceived because her father and mother loved each other mutually.
In that same sense, I believe that the Bible, if not read to be a scientific book, but rather an emotional (or spiritual) book, actually answers many questions about the meaning of life and morality, unlike any book that is based purely on science can.
In this same train of thought, to say that science can begin to discuss the meaning of life is utterly unsatisfying. That’s like entering a friend’s house to hear a kettle boiling on the stove, and asking “Why is the water boiling?” only to get the answer, “Oh when you apply heat to water molecules, the water molecules vibrate and changes state to a gaseous form causing bubbles to appear, which results in boiling”, when the answer “Oh, I was thinking of making some tea” would have been so much more satisfying. (And yes, Sam Harris’ book on this, The Moral Landscape, is equally unsatisfying and I feel still leaves the questions of meaning and morality unanswered. Don't bother buying it.)
Okay. I guess, that’s it for now. =)
