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Tramp Swan wrote: as if God needed scientific verification
Funny. 
But the historical record of Urantia as told in the UB and which conflicts or contradicts the human science of the time but becomes confirmed later by the scientific method IS very important verification of the UB itself. Which is not the same as God at all.
I believe the UB will gain tremendous influence in the coming generations by such scientific discoveries and technology upgrades over time. Most of the UB cannot be be evaluated by science but much of the historical record and genetic/species evolution and geo/astrophysics facts presented can be. So far, there is a growing body of such supportive documentation in multiple areas of research. Fascinating!!
The UB celebrates the scientific method and the value of the scientific contribution to the reality perspective based on fact as well as truth. Science and religion seek the same source and center of reality after all!
196:3.2 (2094.1) There are just three elements in universal reality: fact, idea, and relation. The religious consciousness identifies these realities as science, philosophy, and truth. Philosophy would be inclined to view these activities as reason, wisdom, and faith—physical reality, intellectual reality, and spiritual reality. We are in the habit of designating these realities as thing, meaning, and value.
196:3.3 (2094.2) The progressive comprehension of reality is the equivalent of approaching God. The finding of God, the consciousness of identity with reality, is the equivalent of the experiencing of self-completion—self-entirety, self-totality. The experiencing of total reality is the full realization of God, the finality of the God-knowing experience.
196:3.4 (2094.3) The full summation of human life is the knowledge that man is educated by fact, ennobled by wisdom, and saved—justified—by religious faith.
196:3.5 (2094.4) Physical certainty consists in the logic of science; moral certainty, in the wisdom of philosophy; spiritual certainty, in the truth of genuine religious experience.
196:3.15 (2094.14) Thus it appears that all human progress is effected by a technique of conjoint revelational evolution.
196:3.26 (2096.2) The evolutionary mind is able to discover law, morals, and ethics; but the bestowed spirit, the indwelling Adjuster, reveals to the evolving human mind the lawgiver, the Father-source of all that is true, beautiful, and good; and such an illuminated man has a religion and is spiritually equipped to begin the long and adventurous search for God.
196:3.28 (2096.4) Religion stands above science, art, philosophy, ethics, and morals, but not independent of them. They are all indissolubly interrelated in human experience, personal and social. Religion is man’s supreme experience in the mortal nature, but finite language makes it forever impossible for theology ever adequately to depict real religious experience.
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Last edited by fanofVan on Tue Jun 15, 2021 11:15 am +0000, edited 2 times in total.
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