Some people go to extremes and choose to ignore science in favor of folklore. So?, Everyone is entitled to look at things in their own way, even if it doesn't always make sense to others.
Sir Isaac Newton helped us understand practical problems from the external world. Stuff like what in other words would be something like this:
in nature, no amount of energy ever dissappears; it is transformed to some other 'format'.
The Common law of the conservation of energy. Science. Reliable Data. .....and, it works time and time again.
We fly rockets into the outer confines of the known physical Universe, take pictures, watch sattellite TV, chat on the Net etc!, thanks to our ability to understand such mysteries and adapt technologies to those discoveries. No Bible/Koran/etc can teach that. Kids need to learn math and philosophy. Kids should be taught about thinking. We must teach about ethics, dialectics, neurocognitive science, anthropology, biology, astronomy. We owe quite a bit to the pre-Christian/Pre-Muslim, Hellenic civilizations for the discovery of science. But we don't pray to Zeus anymore. No Newtonian Church? Look around.
There are deep fears in all humans. Also we share many of the same mundane fears of family and social life that affect us all. To cover our 'existential gaps', we devise theology and religion in an effort to answer eternal questions. But, if you "believe in stuff", then spiritual and mental action work the same way of the laws of physics. Instead of quarks and photons we think of spirits and souls. Physicists and shamans all call the unquantifiable or unknowable the same, "forces". Hey, can any scientist show me the color or density of love? the volume or speed of honesty? or the square root of freedom. ? the temperature of hatred?
Humans -
Dominicans included- are always emitting and receiving physical and spiritual forces, in every direction. So , even Freud and Jung may have been, after all, onto something. Mental life and culture are not static, like life itself
they evolve...even in Santo Domingo.
- Tordok