... dark room, science (the flashlight) is merely one way of finding out about our world, which by itself cannot fulfill our curiosity, so indeed religion (a hypothesis) is needed to complete the search for answers. Science, by providing methods to investigate our external universe (the dark room), by ... so distant from each other? It wasn't until the 18th century, during the Enlightenment Era, that traditional thought patterns were being questioned by science. Philosophers such as Kant and Rousseau argued that science and religion should be kept apart. That idea further rose in the 19th c...

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... the Jews. They questioned if they should maintain tradition when the entire non-Jewish world demanded its abandonment. Different solutions were reached. In Eastern Europe, the Haskalah or the Jewish enlightenment movement tried to revitalize Jewish life by adding elements of the best in European life. But eventually, in reaction to persecution by other nations and peoples, Zionism or a desire for ... Today, Judaism has about 18 million followers. HINDUISM Hinduism is called Sanatana Dharma' in the Sanskrit, the original language of India. Sanatana' means Everlasting while Dharma', crude...

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... scientists who propose that there is nothing beyond death. Religious ideas are often dualist, meaning that the body and sou (mind) are in some way separate. The scientists and philosophers who see death as the end of existence, when both the connected mind and body perish, have been classified as materialists. Both categories however, have followers who do believe in a ... belief in reincarnation. This is the belief that when you die your soul (atman) still remains and comes back in another body. For Buddhists, the supreme aim is to obtain enlightenment or nirvana. However before this ...

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