God vs Science
Buddhism
- Constant change evolution and resolution
- Creation is happening right now : Happening through re-birth and karma
- Creation is a participate and never-ending process: people are participating in karma
- Science except that things are on going
TASK Week 9 T2:
Exploring the passage and dissect the passage
Quote 1:
The Buddhist believe the
"Karma" is the creator of the universe, specifically your own karma. This
determines what form a person will take in the after life. An external being is
not the only form of God, it is a super-natural theism, it is only one view of
God out of the many other views of God. It is through all living things: plant,
animals etc. They believe that is the result of past actions and thoughts of
the human being that reflect also, that the actions experience by the person in
the present will come back and the person will experience the same thing
(karma). Karma controls things such as God does like in the religion of Islam.
Through the bible and scriptures,
they believe that these religions are already fixed and that the world is just continuing
on as it already is but it isn’t evolving anymore. Everything is changing and
evolving through the quote “ At any given
moment, some people are born and others die, come galaxies are born and others
die” Buddhist also believe in re-birth and this quote tells us that ; when
someone dies they would become re-incarnated and as they believe that we are a
part of the participatory process and that they/ we are always continuing to
make bigger and is constantly evolving. Plenty of Christians and Muslim
strongly believe that there is something after you die, the energy is still
continuing on after one dies. The scientist do say that the universe and earth
and only expand so far. According to the Buddhist point of view creation is happening at this moment, we have scientific evidence that the universe/ big bang happened a long time ago. Creation happened a long time ago with the help of the Big Bang as scientific evidence would suggest.
If wanting to partly agree use quote : Because creation is happening right now
Christians and Jews believe that life can continue in another universe, there are also evidence of destruction: people die, stars die. Christian people believe that Jesus the saviour will return someday. Being able to observe the Big Bang is questionable.
WEBSITE : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cycle_of_the_universe
Hindu's believe that the universe never came at a particular time. They believe that the universe is constantly changing and when the universe will cease to exist a NEW universe will form (this idea about the universe is also what the Buddhist believe). The birth of the universe according to Hindu's is followed by life and death of the universe. The universal conciseness is Brahma which is a main God, Vishnu is the maintainer and Shiva which is the destroyer these three are the main Gods. These God's give balance in the life of the Buddhist. The first sound of the God Brahma is " Om" this suggest peace of all creation.
Quote 2:
There was neither non-existence nor existence then.
There was neither death nor immortality then.
There was no distinguishing sign of night nor of day.
This simply saying that everything already existed and needs to questioning. Hindu's the same as the Buddhist.
Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning,
Before darkness existed there was already darkness in the universe this happened even before the big bang
Who really knows?
Who will here proclaim it?
Whence was it produced?
Whence is this creation?
The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen?
Who will here proclaim it?
Whence was it produced?
Whence is this creation?
The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen?
Lastly towards the end of the poem it re-enforces that nobody knew who create the universe, when it was formed and who claims to be rightful creator of the universe. They was no God or higher power as the Hindu's believe that the God's came after the creation of the universe, so there is no explanation about who created the universe other then the fact that it exist. Scientist would say that the universe was the result of the Big Bang.
