Does Truth Come From Science Or From God?
Dear Reader, It would appear that although science and technology can be seen to have progressively created considerable destructive power (both in war and towards the environment) over the past few centuries, they seem to be more and more promoted as the basic tools of civilisation. Apart from the arts (often now decried as less important by economy-minded governments), what is there left as a means of contemplation to balance the cerebral orientation of our educational system? The left-hand side of the brain surely needs to be heard just as much as the right-side! But before I go any further, how religious studies at schools are covered is not, in my view, an answer to this issue; secular education does not try to enter the spirit, as it were, of religion nor spirituality. Alas, secular teachers do not know the truths that are available from true spiritual teachers, nor can they be expected to. In 1930, a leading Jewish Rabbi wrote this piece in defence of both science and religion (