Mutual Influence of the Metaphysical and Physical

By: Ziauddin Ahmed

Family of the Heart - DIALOGUE & DISCUSSIONS 

Javaid Virk is obviously not pleased with the direction this discussion has taken. He asks why the disputants in this debate have chosen to focus on the "physical" and scientific rather than the "abstract".  While, he is well within his rights to suggest changing the course of the debate into discussions about something less tangible, it is also important to state that the discussions thus far, based on scientific evidence of the nature of the physical are entirely apposite. Claims made about the physical world can only be verified through a scientific approach. As for the abstract and conceptual, well, what can I say? A belief for example, in a personal god is hardly rational and is rarely governed by the strictures of logic and rationality for those who advocate it.

 

Farzana Hassan

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