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Outside Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, while on our honeymoon
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I just noticed a pic on Facebook:
My question about this is: Shouldn´t all of us also be skeptical about science? After all, most scientists are paid for by huge American and other Western corporations. Therefore, their research is biased toward what will make money for the corporation and their stockholders. ¨Independent¨ science is a myth.
Better to make Nature our ¨religion¨. At least Nature is observable and can tell us about the nature of reality. While we may not have all the money scientists have at their disposal to do high-level research, at least we can understand reality more to some extent through our observation and experience.
While I´m all for the Scientist Method, we have to be rich to use it effectively. And if we simply believe the published research of scientists, we are putting our faith in people who claim to be ¨experts¨, and who may be intentionally or unintentionally deceiving people. For example, I have seen environmental destruction all over the US, Canada and China. My own observation ¨warms¨ up my mind to accept the scientific findings regarding Climate Change and predictions of increasing ecologically crises.
As some people here in Vancouver, BC, Unceded Salish Territories, used to say on their bumper stickers, while ironically polluting Mother Earth with their fricking vehicles: ¨Nature is my Church¨. She´s mine too, but at the same time, I´m not going to adopt a bunch of superstitious beliefs and rituals from New Age gurus and anyone else, usually trying to make a buck off spirituality! I remain agnostic on God/the gods and the claims of all religions. And yet, I´m always seeking, seeking, seeking ; )
Cheers,
Bjarte Harvisen
Drop me a line at
harvisen AT gmail.com
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| The Wild Wall outside of Beijing, China |
