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Of
metaphysics and apple-bottomed houris
Dear
Family of the Heart,
Re
Post #9: Physics without Meta, by Ahsan of Strasbourg
The thrust of Ahsan's
argument is that Physics could not have been born without the chemistry of
human thought and ideas, logic and reasoning, experimentation, observation and
analysis. I wish to add that Metaphysics is also the product of human
thought and ideas, logic and reasoning, experimentation, observation and
analysis.
Now, if Gravity is the supreme power
holding our universe together, then Gravity is God and Newton its first prophet because he
brought us this humbling truth from the depths of the great big Unknown.
I am certain that ripe apples have
fallen out of the blue on unsuspecting laypersons and scientists alike
snoozing in the sultry afternoon pulchritude of an orchard, but no one
before Newton
had ever wondered why the apple never disappeared upwards or sideways.
There's universal agreement that
matter cannot be created or destroyed, and we have come a long way from the
caves where we dwelt thanks to the motive power of steam, oil, gasoline,
electricity and nuclear energy. However, I disagree with Ahsan's assertion that “only Nature (God!) has the power to create or destroy matter.”
I am wondering if Nature (or God for
that matter) has a mind of its own, like Man has. Both Nature and God are
interchangeable in the human mind with something that no one has been able
to fathom because it is a metaphysical reality. Ha.
The closest that we have come to
understand Nature (or God) is through the observations and theories of
biologists and physicists, scientists and atheists, and all other people
who use their faculty of reason to good advantage.
In talking about thought and ideas,
logic and reasoning, experimentation, observation and analysis, it would indeed
be utterly blasphemous to say that Religion is the science that has all the
answers about plant, animal and human life, blah-blah-blah.
I am aware there are those who claim
that Religion is the true metaphysics underlying (or superseding) all the sciences
known to Man. These legions of ignorance often demonstrate instant verbal diarrhea when they hear the words Darwin or Evolution,
perhaps because neither Darwin nor Evolution offers any 'metaphysical'
comfort of a heavenly life in, say, the lap of those apple-bottomed houris up there.
Over to you, folks.
Rashid
Mughal
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