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Knowledge Vs Religion

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Since birth a small trace of Catholicism has been instilled in me. I have, as Socrates put it, recollected various beliefs of such religion. Hence, learned that we are born with a spiritual “superstructure”. This understanding is deeper than any empirical observation and much deeper than any natural laws of natural science. However, due to life’s complexity I will put theories of reason and spirituality into consideration. I do not intent to strain polarity between science and the supernatural for I believe in the bridge of both theories. After centuries of discovered knowledge, the world we coincide with is still a far too complex structure to understand. History has only provided blueprints to further discover life’s underlying and unsolvable purpose. I …show more content…

For example, fruits become useless without one to consume it and buildings are idle without one to occupy it; indulgence. We carry out empirical observation to examine and study the environment, thus reciprocating knowledge. With knowledge, adaption has evolved and the being is able to indulge in a wider scope. This is a small measure of truth, however, it is the theory I’ve cultivated in order to find some understandable summation of life’s basis on earth. Past the due time of our passing, I imagine that our soul keeps on living. Where to? I am not too confident. I hope that there truly is a heaven to safely provide a new realm of haven for us. For a long period of time I was always conflicted whether we truly had a soul or that we have mistakenly misinterpreted the “soul” as neural firings to the frontal lobe, in other words, the brain’s dimension of personality. Is the frontal lobe alike to a fingerprint- is it unique and different among everyone else’s to have ever existed? It is evident that mankind has been on earth for thousands of years with billions of people to have ever existed, so it seems unlikely for this uniqueness to be true. In addition, do we truly believe that we were all created

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