SF Bay Bloggers » religion and science http://sfbaybloggers.com Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:13:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Religion and Science: Hand in Hand or Fist to Fist? http://sfbaybloggers.com/san-francisco/religion-and-science-hand-in-hand-or-fist-to-fist http://sfbaybloggers.com/san-francisco/religion-and-science-hand-in-hand-or-fist-to-fist#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:10:07 +0000 admin http://sfbaybloggers.com/?p=27 While I was in the City the other day, I stopped by a bookstore, which I usually do when I’m in San Francisco or wherever else I am. After perusing the “New Fiction” table, I headed for mysteries. I wanted to pick up the latest Robert Parker “Spenser” novel.  On a whim, I decided to browse through a few shelves of books in the “metaphysics” section. I used to read a lot of religion and science, but there was definitely something about the Bush administration that put me off of both for a few years, eight years to be exact. Metaphysics seemed like a good compromise, one that might perk up my interest in both again.

There were a variety of subjects to choose from in the metaphysics section. Books on gems and stones, angels and demons, the pros and cons of “The Secret,” and a number of others recently-published. There were also “old school” books on metaphysics by writers (and mystics?) like Charles Fillmore and Emma Curtis Hopkins. In that same group, I came upon “The Science of Mind,” by Ernest Holmes. When I opened to the first page, I read these words on the first line of the text: “We all look forward to the day when science and religion shall walk hand in hand through the visible to the invisible.”

Sadly, for the passed least eight years (at least) science and religion have blatantly been placed at odds against each other. But, now, with a new president, and new thought, maybe the time has finally come for that hand-in-hand journey.

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