Our “ultimate concern,” to use Paul Tillich's phrase, is the evolution of life to Godhood, not “merely” the Inward God or the Father Within but our evolution to Godhood within the world of material and supermaterial nature. The idea of God outside the world of nature has become an idolatrous symbol, the symbol has become the holy.
To try to separate religion from science, as Tillich and Catholic thinkers before him did, seems like a desperate pretense at saving religion, even though saving religion is a noble cause.
Elements of faith, like theory and hypothesis, will remain in both science and religion, absolute truth is still to be discerned in both fields, but I believe that the ultimate center of both religion and science needs to harmonize with philosophical naturalism and philosophical sociobiology, which I have been expanding with theological materialism.
This is how to save both religion and science in a way that modern man can, eventually, embrace.
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