Science, Religion and the Assumptions We Make

[el_bryanto]

5. This is a one of the fundamental faultlines between believers and atheists

It's not something that can be bridged easily. Basically you are coming down on the side of a material universe - everything can be quantified scientifically. Fair enough. Believers generally, but not always, come down on the spiritual side - that there are planes and understandings beyond us. There is a spiritual world that can be felt and experienced but cannot be scientifically measured at this time.

There's no simple way to bridge that gap and probably no real reason to (at least in the context of this room). For a believer to admit that if you can't prove it scientifically it doesn't exist is, for the most part, to let go of belief. For an Atheist to admit that there might be things beyond scientific understanding is to acknowledge at least the possibility of the spiritual world.

I will say, though, that simply believing there are things that science can't explain or can't explain yet, isn't a rejection of the many things that science has explained - i've noted that in other places it is suggested that a belief in God means one rejects all science, which isn't the case.

Bryant