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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Archived_member14" data-source="post: 129559" data-attributes="member: 586">Jaspi ji,You wrote:As all human beings are born with wired in EMPATHY is also born with faith of the Creator.When we are born we are told about our our mother and father which become our blind faith . Similarly we are blessed with so many prophets,Saint,Avtars to wake up our faith to remember the Creators of this Universe.------------I don’t see any connection between empathy and faith / belief in a Creator, but no need to respond to this as I’d like to express another point.There is another explanation as to why both, the belief in God as well as the taking seriously of the arguments of science, is so common. And you’ll admit that our statements about our beliefs reveal more our present inclination of mind than anything else. What we can also appreciate is the fact of habit of thought and any attachments associated arisen in the present, to be accumulating and hence increasing the probability of similar states arising again in the future. With this we can then also accept that we come into this world with all that we have accumulated in past lives. And given that we have been going around in the cycle of birth and death for an endlessly long time and with some glimpse into the nature of mind now, in particular how it lands one moment here and another there, attracted by this view of things and that, we can see that we must have accumulated the tendency to follow almost any line of thought / belief.I may be wrong, especially given that I have only read scattered and haphazardly here and there. One impression I got however, is that both Science and believers in God perceive the ‘world’ in terms of diversity of objects and beings and an underlying need to find some unifying reality. What differentiates the two and particularly in relation to the perception of beings being born and then dying,  is that while science perceives annihilation even when talking about such things as transformation of matter into energy , theists perceive lastingness generally manifested as a belief in a soul.  This in my opinion is why there is so much fuel for discussion between the two sides, yet they can’t come to an agreement without one or both sides having distorted to a little or larger extent, the basic beliefs each hold. Sukinder</blockquote>

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