"Science without Religion is
crippled. (I am not too sure about this one)"
Science of course is simply a method to discover the
secrets of the universe. It has worked very well as you know and
experienced (when you type and submitted your post).
The computer is a product of Science.
When science "invented" the computer, no religion was
involved. I seriously think the opposite is true. Religious beliefs
cripples science. It puts limits on scientific discoveries when
religious people come into power.
Like "President George W.Bush's limit
on federal funding of embryonic stem cell
research"
""Religion without Science is
blind. ( I agree)."
Religion is thousand of years old, long before science.
Blind or not, people simply carry on believing in the religious
teachings. They did not need science then, they do not need science
now.
They will tell you "I choose to be stupid, why do you
care?" "I choose to believe, why do you care?" "I am stupid, I
cannot work things out for myself and therefore I believe, why do
you care?"
As long as they do not try to impose their beliefs on
others, right, we won't care.
There is no need to mix science and religion. Religion
deals with beliefs based on the imagination rather than tests,
observations and proofs. Science deals with findings based on
experiments, observations and proofs.
The two are so far apart, don't try to mix
them.
Agree with you partially but not totally. Some of the things
said in the scriptures are scientifically proven and some are yet
to be proven. Just 3 examples below :
1) Buddha once held up a cup of water and remarked that there
were 84,000 (a number to denote "many" or "countless") beings in
it. No one understand what He meant. Today, we use a microscope and
see that He referred to invisible microorganisms.
2) Buddha described worlds beyond ours in the vastness of outer
space and other dimensions which are inhabited by many other
intelligent sentiment life forms, many of which are unlike ours.
Aliens existence are yet to be proven.
3) Buddhism believes in indestructibility or preservation of
energy. This is in line with the law of conservation of
energy, which states that energy can neither be created nor
destroyed but can only be transformed from one form to another. The
teaching of rebirth, is an example of transfer of
imperishable Mind or mental energy from one body into
another. It is yet to be proven but some scientists are looking
into this issue.