No God

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. ~Stephen Hawking

Think Rationally

Natural Selection

Natural Selection didn't design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take care of your genes.

~Robert Wright, in Why Buddhism Is True

Feelings

To approach or to avoid is the most elemental behavioral decision there is, and feelings seem to be the tool natural selection used to get organisms to make what, by natural selection's lights, was the right decision.

As the biologist George Romanes put it in 1884, twenty-five years after Darwin's The Origin of Species appeared, "Pleasures and pains must have been evolved as the subjective accompaniment of processes which are respectively beneficial or injurious to the organism, and so evolved for the purpose or to the end that the organism should seek the one and shun the other."

~Robert Wright, in Why Buddhism Is True

Natural Selection

Natural selection is not a conscious designer, it is simply a blind process.

Thank You, Science

Science and Religion

Science will admit when it is in error.

Religion has many times killed to prove it is right.

Truth

Buddhism and the Principles of Science

Unlike the majority of other religious philosophies, Buddhism has never given any importance to the idea of a first cause, or to any form of cosmology. Theology didn't develop in Buddhism, since practical realization is expected of the Practitioner and not abstract debate. 

Buddhism does not recognize a conflict between its Teaching and Science because Buddhism is, properly speaking, a practical application of the principles of science: After observing something, a scientist tries to explain what has been seen. The explanation is called an hypothesis. Nature's reality is always the final judge of a scientific theory.

The Ultimate Mystery

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. 

~Max Planck, 

a theoretical physicist 

whose discovery 
of energy quanta 

won him the 

Nobel Prize 
in Physics in 1918.

The Ultimate Universal Reality

It will remain remarkable, in what ever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality. 

~Eugene Wigner, 

Nobel Prize winner 

and one of the leading 

physicists of the 

twentieth century.

We Are Our Experience, Experience Is How We See And Describe Everything

Hence it is clear that the space of physics is not, in the last analysis, anything given in nature or independent of human thought. It is a function of our conceptual scheme [mind].”

~Albert Einstein

Science and Wisdom

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom 

~Isaac Asimov

Science

Far from impeding the teaching and the practice of the Buddha-Dharma, the world view of modern science provides a sound and fertile foundation.