"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.
Religion also deals with experience, for example what the Buddha
taught are not theories but his own experience and further more he
taught How anyone can come to his own conclusion by experience.
Most often the case however, an originally great contemplative
tradition over times becomes corrupted by people and politics into
dogmas and blind following.
The Buddha clearly explained how he does not teach based on
theories and beliefs:
The Perfect One is free from any theory, for the Perfect One
has understood what the body is, and how it arises, and passes
away. He has understood what feeling is, and how it arises, and
passes away. He has understood what perception is, and how it
arises, and passes away. He has understood what the mental
formations are, and how they arise, and pass away. He has
understood what consciousness is, and how it arises, and passes
away.
Therefore, I say, the Perfect One has won complete deliverance
through the extinction, fading away, disappearance, rejection, and
getting rid of all opinions and conjectures, of all inclination to
the vainglory of I and mine.
- Majjhima Nikaya, 72
Also, even HH the Dalai Lama himself has said “If
science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then
Buddhism will have to change.
I do agree with your statement:
All you can say is: "My experience with god is
this and that..." and never "God is this and God is
that".
