INVESTIGATIONS INTO FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES - SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY

Distinctions drawn between ATHEISM and AGNOSTICISM plus SECULARISM and NON-THEISM Trying to clarify different standpoints often misunderstood

'THE BRAIN CREATES GOD' DEBATE - AN ANALYSIS OF 'NEUROTHEOLOGY' AS PSEUDO-SCIENCE Critical analysis of an article "How the Brain Creates God" by Iona Miller of the Asklepia Foundation, from the general viewpoint of neurophilosophy

The Origins and Persistence of Religious Belief and Faith in God Secular and humanistic overview of the growth of religion from a historical viewpoint

'Everything is relative' Relativity, relativism, subjective uniqueness and the objective, understanding and relatedness in science and philosophy, scientifically-tested knowledge versus beliefs

God is everything, in everyone – as a spiritual teaching - the ultimate self-defeating circularity

Advaita – historical flight into abstraction and speculation
- Ideas of individual “spirits” embedded in nature would not hold up, so abstract principles and powers beyond nature were hypothesised, but never proven.

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