The search for understanding the relation of science and spirituality is gathering momentum. Thus these ……. thoughts gleaned from online inflow of news and views, 9-7-20

THE SINGULAR GIFT OF BOTH/AND

Can we recognise the singular gift
of championing eternal knowledge
with equal parts conviction and humility?
The first finds evidence to investigate,
the second retains a sense of wonder
at so vast a fruitful universe about us.

Cosmic creativity flows ever between
slight pulses here and there
and magisterial evolution everywhere.
Yet we’re up against a wall of jargon
mystifying science and other disciplines
withholding treasured access to integrity.

At its most searching, science is ‘informal worship’,
its endless exploration of enlightenment is sacred.
The word ‘religion’ comes from ‘binding together’
all the law and the ligaments of life itself
to end all sundering apart, so
all in every culture need a sense of awe.

Let not that awe be possessed, just persistently sought,
sensing cosmic religious feeling as the
strongest and noblest motive for
both scientific and spiritual research.
Hand in hand in mutual respect
they bring us nearer to that evocative, vocative,

even provocative force hiding in the shadows
of our ambiguous, all too human metaphor, ‘God’.
Science, religion, hand in hand moving forward,
not toe to toe holding each other off.
Religion is the felt sense of science’s love of
humbly, tentatively discovering elements of integrity.

Yours in the great quest for inclusive justice
Peter

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, 
not on fighting the old but on building the new.” Socrates

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Follow-up to the above: The Singular Gift of Both+And