Religion and Science
5. Religion and Science
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believe that our response to beauty, or the
mystic’s sense of communion with God, have
no objective counterpart. It is perfectly
possible that they are, what they have so often
been taken to be, clues to the nature of reality.
Thus our various experiences are put on a
more equal footing, as it were. Our religious
aspirations, our perceptions of beauty, may
not be the essentially illusory phenomena
they were supposed to be. In this new
scientific universe even mystics have a right
to exist (pp. 138-42).
Such explanations from scientific philosophers
now abound. Morton White in his book
The Age of
Analysis,
points out that ‘the philosophically-
minded scientists of the 20th century have started a
new crusade, the names of Whitehead, Eddington
and James Jeans are the most prominent among
them.’ He then bears out this notion of a ‘crusade’
with highly pertinent quotations from each of
them.
‘Nature is alive’ (p. 84). Such was the interpretation
of
modern
information
by
the
English
