The religious outlook is ego-centric. It makes man to look on the universe from his superiority. How much man has tickled his vanity by his make-belief that the infinite God thought it worthwhile to create man, and to provide him with the universe for his needs and enjoyments and looks after him day and night; or in how much megalomania man has indulged in, in hypnotizing himself into the belief that he and Brahman are one. Thus the universe has no meaning apart from him and whenever an unusual event happens in it, it is a warning from God to man to beware of his misconduct. Science studies the universe without its relation to man and treats man as any other object of the universe, giving him no privileged position. It removes man from the centre of the stage of the universe and refuses to impute human and divine values to the universe. It remains value neutral to get at the factual aspect of things. The astronomical facts of planets, even those of our planet, are explained by science without bringing in value concepts. It finds that the evolution is not known to have occurred in hundreds and million of other planets. It interprets in cold logic the evolution on our planet as well as other possible destruction of our planet in future, when it collides with some other planet. It speaks of the evolution of the conditions which has made life possible on earth and speaks with the same unconcern about the probable effects of the second law of thermo-dynamics by which heat is so distributing itself that no life will be possible. Science studies the universe with complete unconcern for human personality and values. Science tells itself not to let ‘ego, come between its understanding and the universe.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:28:28 +0000
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