Scientific Religion
MrRaphael
Langerhorst
Many people will be surprised about such a title, scientific religion,
and explain that religion is a lot, but certainly not scientific. While
this is true at the first glance, there is a deeper meaning within.
Life, as we know it today, has one functional body for collecting
information or knowledge about life which is accepted by most people:
science. The reason why it is broadly accepted is because, in general,
scientists build up a knowlegdebase based on proven
observation. This means that the knowledge they collect can
be considered logical, which in turn is what makes people believe in them.
On the other hand, religion, at least as we know it today, has a
knowledge about life that was taught and believed. The knowlegde
itself tends to be more of life concerning human beings themselves
rather than physical laws of nature, which is the domain of modern
science.
The human nature needs something it can hold on or believe in, always.
In former times religion had the knowledge or wisdom that was suitable
for most people. They were tought something they could believe in,
without questioning it. The reason why many people make science their
new religion now is simply because people nowadays tend to question
what they believe in. They want to understand, rather than just believe.
Science, nowadays what many people trust and believe in, has tremendous
success in finding and defining physical laws of nature. But it ultimately
fails to give human beings like you and me guidance in metaphysical areas,
including ethics, life itself, evolution of life, social areas or even
guidance on how to live a fulfilling life. These areas is what humans are
confronted with in daily life just as much as with physical laws. Many of
these areas are covered by religion, but since religion fails to provide a
solid base to believe in for many people nowadays, these people struggle
with everyday life without a clear guidance.
The G System tries, as one of its goals, to provide a framework to allow
science to embark on a journey boyond physical laws to the very essence of
life. To allow such a journey it is crucial to understand how this can be
accomplished.
Beyond Science
There are two ways of comprehending an object of interest. One, which is always
used by science, is to observe it with sensors of some kind from without. This
leads to understanding about the object's size, weight, and so on.
A different approach is to understand an object from within, also called
intuition. This approach is less known and in many cases much less developed
than an intellectual approach to comprehension.
The principle of intuition, thoroughly understood, implies the principle of
unity of life. Which, to make it brief, just states that all living beings
are related to each other and together form one unit of life.
If we think about it the unity of life must be true, since otherwise it would
not be possible for us to relate to each other in any way.
Intuition has many aspects, altough they all are the same in the end: unity
The one aspect that results from this and that is of interest to
this project is inherent understanding, which comes from within.
Such intuitively grasped knowledge is irresistible, it simply is. This
is also the difference to scientifically learned knowledge. In science
you usually learn something and with intuition you just know.
The G System combines these concepts, the scientific and the intuitional, for
the purpose of learning about life as a whole.