artt72h

Mountain Math Software

Structure and essence: The keys to integrating spirituality and science

Copyright © 2001 Paul P. Budnik Jr. All rights reserved

Dolphin playing with a leaf.

Our technical capabilities are increasing at an enormous and unprecedented rate. In contrast our spirituality and values are developing much more slowly. This has created a perilous time and often empty culture. We need a broadly accepted spirituality that gives purpose and meaning beyond the necessities of daily existence. Our scientific understanding has undermined many conventional approaches to spirituality at the very time we most need to strengthen these capacities. The source of the difficulty may hold the key to the solution.

Science is widely accepted because it works. It looks at the world as it is searching for the simplest possible description. Discovery of simple descriptive laws has led to enormous power to control the phenomena the laws describe feeding our technical prowess. It was only possible to do this by divorcing science from feeling and values so one could see what is and not what one wants to see,

Mountain Math Software

Email comments to: webmaster@mtnmath.com