What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole
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Is the divorce over?
Are spirit and science
tying the knot once more?
Are the church and the
laboratory saying the same thing?
Out of the misty ages of antiquity...
the quest for the divine and the quest
for knowledge about the universe...
marched hand in hand.
Ancient Sumer
- There was a god of astronomy...
a god of horticulture,
a god of irrigation...
the scribes and technologists...
investigating these fields of knowledge.
Ancient Greece
- Philosophers asking the questions of why are we here...
developed the theory of the atom,
celestial movements and human ethics.
Medieval Europe-
Kingmaker, landowner and
purveyor of the truth...
the church took it upon themselves
to be the one knower of everything.
The dogma was law.
Yet science had moved forward...
and now challenged the dogma that the
Earth was the center of the universe.
Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo all
felt the heavy hand of the church.
The tragedy!
Unable to suppress science anymore...
the church and science divided
up knowledge and human endeavor.
Descartes invented dualism.
The church had the unseen...
science the seen.
And materialism was born.
An uneasy truce.
Scientists were no longer being bound...
and they reacted with a vengeance.
All the unseen is fantasy, delusion.
We are strictly little machines running
in a predictable machine universe...
governed by strict, immutable laws.
Soulless scientists
were condemned to hell!
Darwin countered. The
creator is nothing, nowhere.
We are random mutations...
simply a carrier of D.N.A. 's
relentless quest for more...
in a meaningless universe.
And meanwhile, both science and
religion were hitting the wall.
If everything was mechanistic
and God was the Holy Creator...
then what were we humans supposed to do?
Science dug ever deeper
into a dead universe...
and stumbled upon and
unlocked a mystery.
In tiny corners of space and time...
scientists found unfathomable energy...
and mind-numbing mysteries.
Mysteries that suggest
we are all connected...
that the physical universe
is essentially nonphysical.
Time and space Are just constructs...
of this non-materialness.
And today, renegade scientists
are meeting with religious leaders.
Conferences pushing forward a meeting
of science and spirit are springing up.
As the 20th century blew open
the doors of a mechanistic view...
will the 21 st century
blow down the iron wall...
between the church and laboratory?
This is your IsNewsReal
reporter... signing off.
The rabbit hole and how deep
and how far we want to go...
is really how far, how much do you
want to discover about your true nature?
Alice went down the rabbit hole,
where she met the Mad Hatter.
The hatter was mad.
And the idea was, you want to get out
of the rabbit hole after you've gone in.
So there's two stages to science.
There's-There's the crazy part,
where you go down the rabbit hole...
and then there's the part where you
check the craziness of your ideas...
against a rigorous, strict
straitjacket-like process.
I think the interesting
thing about science...
um, um, the interesting
thing about physics...
is that it is a genuinely
new and novel way...
of trying to come to
grips with the world.
Um, um, I think the experimental
method, which is important to physics...
is a very different business
from the method of revelation...
or the method of meditation
or something like that.
I don't think it's true
that, for example...
adherents of, say, Buddhism...
um, um, could imagine
changing their beliefs...
based on the outcomes of some
experiments people do with electrons.
Why this apparent rift between
the church and science...
religion emerged today?
that are very deep...
because it probably goes
back to a conviction...
that some of the books
of the scriptures...
like the Book of Genesis,
which deals with beginnings...
the origins of the world.
Now, in fact, any biblical
scholar will tell you-
this is not news
- that the Book of Genesis...
the origins of the world.
But many churchmen believed
that in the Book of Genesis...
you had actual sort of
live news, like CNN...
about the beginnings of creation.
And, therefore, you had many
people down through the ages...
like the famous Archbishop James
Ussher in Ireland in 1650...
who calculated all the ages
of the patriarchs back along...
and worked out, to
his own satisfaction...
that the creation of
the world occurred...
in the year 4004 B.C. on the 17th
of September at 9:00 in the morning.
scientific explanation for spirituality.
I don't think there's been
a good one until recently.
To me, the only one that
makes sense is that...
proto-consciousness, Platonic
values, goodness, truth...
exist at this fundamental
level of space-time geometry...
which can influence our
actions if we're open to them...
and interconnects us
to all other beings...
to the universe at large.
Science creates the
stories that we live by...
and science has told
us a very bleak story.
It's told us that we're some
sort of genetic mistake...
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