Posted by Thinker on May 24, 2003 at 06:44:33:

In Reply to: Re: Does God exists? posted by Akhil Shahani on February 14, 2003 at 05:16:39:

To illustrate science's spiritual inadequacy, Dr. Anil Sadgopal, an eminent educationist, had this experience to narrate, which happened in the villages of Madhya Pradesh. He says, he and his team went from village to village performing and explaining the tricks, which travelling godmen perform and con villagers. The villagers agreed that it was magic, but the minute the team left the village, they went back to the godmen saying that in the hands of these people of god it was not magic but divine acts.

While this concerns the spiritual needs of the simple villagers, Dr. Bhargava says, 90 of his 100 scientist colleagues refused to sign a statement back in 1964, which stated that `Human problems can only be solved by human effort without involving the divine'. This dilemma was dwelt upon by Nehru too, who said in the Discovery of India, "The real problems for me remain problems of individual and social life, of harmonious living, of proper balancing of individual's inner and outer life, of an adjustment of the relations between individuals and between groups, of a continuous becoming something better and higher, of social development of the ceaseless adventure of man. In the solution of these problems the way of observation and precise knowledge and deliberate reasoning, according to the method of science, must be followed. This method may not always be applicable in our quest of truth, for art and poetry and certain psychic experience seem to belong to a different order of things and to elude the objective methods of science. So let us not rule out intuition and other methods of sensing truth and reality. They are necessary even for purpose of science. But always we must hold our anchor of precise knowledge tested by reason....".

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