RELIGION, SCIENCE AND GOD.
Thank you, Dr. Adelola, for sharing this information on science and God. I wish to respond by sharing my personal thoughts on the topic in this medium thus:
1. The Discourse: The field of discourse is very speculative and I guess that it will continue to be until some scientists (not science) are able to discover or know God. Discovering God can only be through individual effort and experience. Even Heads of Religious Organizations in spite of the pretense to experience God or the talk in volumes, may not have discovered or experienced God. Citing quotations and statements from the Holy Books are not evidence of knowing God. The actual experience of the Divine is what is required to know God. This and this only will make such persons to be very humble after acquiring the experience.
2. Albert Einstein, was a great Scientist, mystic and Philosopher who got a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. He propounded the Principle of Relativity among many other works that he did. You said in your post that Albert Einstein did not believe that there is God. This opinion of yours is wrong. Einstein not just believed God. He knew and experienced God. Among his many notable quotations, after experiencing God, he said, “The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science….To know that what is impenetrable to us exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling, is the center of true religiousness.” Until any man, scientist or religionist at whatever position, has reached this level of spiritual awakening, his knowledge of God is simply speculative.
Surely Einstein discovered that there is intelligence behind everything in the Earth, Galaxies and the Cosmos. It is this Supreme Intelligence that is the source of all being and that ensures that the DNA carries out its mission of replication with accuracy, otherwise in spite of its near perfect coding, it may later derail. Scientists have made incredible achievements in the world and on the path to discovering God, more than the majority of religionists who are content to take God as anthropomorphic, that is, human-like in form and personality, and applying only dogmatic approach, in their preaching to their adherents, to know God. Also referring to this approach of religious leaders I wish to state that “The Human race cannot retrace its journey back to God or experience God or live a life of universal love through indoctrination and imposition of ignorance on the people.’’
Please note that if there are six billion religionists on earth, there are the same six billion conceptions of God.
3. The Grain of Corn: If you make a mistake of planting a grain of corn with the root part upwards, while the stem part is downwards, when the root part emerges from the soil, it turns downwards to go into the soil. Similarly, when the stem part emerges from under the grain in the soil, it turns to go upwards into the air, where it will later bear ears and grains. Science discovers this and gives it its own name. That is the Intelligence in the grain of corn, an extension of the Supreme Intelligence of God. Primitive, we call it. But so it is for all living things.
4. Discovery or knowledge of God is an individual experience, not by using scientific or mundane equipment to know God. As noted by Mystic Philosopher, Ralph M Lewis, “As one cannot measure, bottle or weigh an emotion, one should not try to apply quantitative methods and the procedure of the physical sciences to the psychic nature of man.” For it is of psychic origin. So it is with God.
Going to church or places of worship many times a day, or having crusades does not guarantee knowing God. Citing religious quotations or texts from the Holy books is not a sign that you know God. Each individual must have had spiritual awakening. It is during the spiritual awakening that one experiences God.
Akin Akinfe
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