...explained away ? With each passing day what we considered to be supernatural things can be explained by a rational scientific answer. Love one of the things thought to be mystic and unexplainable is nothing more than chemical reactions. Even faith has its origin. They've singled out a gene responsible for faith and explained that it helped us to bond and unify and therefore give us more chance to survive. Even the sense of something mystical or supernatural can be explained by certain reactions in the brain. So my question as agnostic is if science explains most things, why do you still cling to the spiritual ? Is it psychological ? Or has something happened that gives you faith. Please don't say how religion has turned your life around because that can happen appart from a god/supernatural force

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I don't, and you have already answered why quite nicely.

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I'm sure that many things can be explained by science but that does not explain many other things that can occur only through God. I am a prime example. I was nearly crippled with a disease that can often be fatal. Myself and friends prayed that God would remove the crippling effects so that I might continue my work for him. Within six hours, my pain was gone and it has not returned...although testing still indicates I have the disease. My doc simply said...well, for some reason it is no longer active...it has gone dormant. Unheard of. In fact, she insisted on rerunning all the tests. They were right on. No scientific explanation possible...and she is one of the foremost authorities on the disease. Praise God...I am still working for him.

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Just because science can name some genes, and what these genes may or may not do, still does not explain were they originally came from. If you want to know what gives a person faith, you can't exclude what God has done in their life. Because it is our experiences in life, with God that helps us to understand Gods word. And as such, for that reason, our lives have been turned around. And when it is from God, we know what turned our lives around.

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Maybe what you describe is in fact the physical aspect of Spirit. Much like the relationship between the workings of a computer and the software code that it uses. Maybe Spirit is the key that unlocks the workings of the physical world - the code of life.

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Science explains nothing; it makes discoveries about a "reality" that already exists, then postulates theory based upon those discoveries. What is "rational" to you would not necessarily be rational to me. It is not rational to me that lumps of flesh generate emotion, or consciousness, or thought, or feeling, or intelligence, which are all the same, come from the same, "return" to the same. Mind forms matter. There is no other rule. Scientists block their own reception of this truth because they cannot bring themselves to see that life is ephemeral, not concrete. The gene you spoke of is formed by mind; when mind "becomes" physical, it joins with the brain that it makes, and agrees to temporarily be bound by certain physical "laws". It does this as it forms the very gene you point to, and as you point to it, you form it.

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