The clash between religion and science, of course, goes back a long way - from Galileo's suppression by the Catholic Church, to the famous Scopes trial, in which William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow duked it out over Darwin's theory of evolution.
The logical conclusion of the idea of a universe governed solely by natural laws was to make a Creator, in the end, unnecessary. Isaac Newton, and those who followed, conceived of the universe in totally mechanistic ways. The universe was inanimate, existing outside of human beings. If the laws of nature, one by one, could be uncovered, then nature and the universe itself could be used and controlled, with Man as its Master.
But the extraordinary developments of physics at the turn of the twentieth century uncovered a universe quite different than that which scientists had heretofore imagined. Electrons, quarks, relativity theory, dark holes, vibrating strings.... But most extraordinary was a conclusion drawn inevitably from these scientific developments:
Though developments in science have revealed these new and deeper truths, many of us go plodding along as though nothing had happened.
Actually, the findings of science are only step by step corroborating the truths about life and the universe and the way our lives work that Buddhism has expounded for millennia.
The newly revised, "Life & Death: A Buddhist Perspective"
One reviewer wrote:
"Having read all or parts of nearly a thousand books dealing with spiritual matters, I cannot recall another book that so simply and effectively blends the fundamentals of religion and science."
The book is available through bookstores or online through the publisher, The Tribute Series, at:
http://www.tributeseries.com/
