This document discusses the limitations of science and the need for spirituality. It contains quotes from scientists acknowledging that science is "silent" about things that really matter like beauty, ethics, and the nature of consciousness. While science can provide factual information, it cannot explain subjective experiences. The document argues that denying consciousness still affirms its existence and that viewing humans as just chemical robots removes free will and moral responsibility. It concludes that science can improve things but spirituality is needed to improve people.

1. Do we need
spirituality in an
age of science?

2. Multi-faceted human intelligence
“All religions, arts and
sciences are branches of the
same tree.”
- Albert Einstein

3. Scientism is unscientific
When science claims
omniscience, it becomes
scientific imperialism or
scientism
Eg. Nothing outside the room

4. Science - scope focuses & limits
“I am very astonished that the scientific
picture of the real world around me is very
deficient. It gives a lot of factual
information, puts all our experience in a
magnificently consistent order, but it is
ghastly silent about all and sundry that is
really near to our heart, that really matters
to us.”
- Noble Laureate Physicist Erwin Schrodinger

5. Science - scope focuses & limits
“It cannot tell us a word about red and blue,
bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical
delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and
ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science
sometimes pretends to answer questions in
these domains, but the answers are very
often so silly that we are not inclined to take
them seriously.”
- Noble Laureate Physicist Erwin Schrodinger

6. Is that scientific?
Different kinds of evidence
Eg. Evidence for
“What is the time?” vs
“Does he /she love me?

7. Consciousness
 “Science’s biggest mystery is the nature of
consciousness. It is not that we possess bad or
imperfect theories of human awareness; we simply
have no such theories at all. About all we know
about consciousness is that it has something to do
with the head, rather than the foot.”
 Nick Herbert, Quantum Reality: Beyond the New
Physics

8. Does consciousness exist?
No scientifically measurable
proof, yet it is the basis of
all measurable proofs

9. Consciousness doesn’t exist?
Even the denial of
consciousness is an
affirmation of
consciousness

10. Einstein’s dilemma
If we are just chemical robots,
then we have no free will.
Then Nazis aren’t responsible
for the Holocaust

11. “I love you”
I & you – biological robots
Love – Surge of chemicals in
cranial cavity

12. Who is the inner activator?
“The brain is a computer . . .
But it is programmed by
something that is outside
itself.”
- Wilder Penfield The Mystery of the Mind,

13. The non-material source of consciousness
We are not programmed
machines; we are the
owners of programmable
machines

14. Science-spirituality harmony
Science can make
things better;
spirituality can
make people better