Bibliography 2: #BIB39239

Key	BIB39239
Reference type	Book
Title	Progress : Perspectives Through a Baha'i Lens
Author	McKiel, Allen
Year	2023
Publisher	[Publisher not stated]
Place published	[Place not stated]
Issue	7.
ISBN	9798867055783
Abstract	The current requirements for global culture include acknowledging that religion and science are as integral to each other as the human spirit is integral to the faculties of language and reasoning. The intent is to demonstrate perspectives and values that encourage solutions based on reason, evidence (including the evidence of testimony), critical review, and the individual pursuit of truth. Extensive quotes from other authors' works are included to weave a fabric of voices relevant to that intent. My commentaries on those quotations are not understood by me as definitive, particularly those on scripture. They are simply my thoughts on those quotes as they relate to aspects of the general themes of this work. I argue that the purpose of religion is the promotion of human wellbeing, learning, and cooperation through experience, awareness, and understanding of our human nature. I argue that it is also the purpose of scientific methodology to promote human well-being using reason by weighing evidence through critical review and consultation in service to an ever-advancing civilization. Both the institutions of religion and the methodologies of science provide understanding of reality, one infinite and eternal, the other practical and conceptual. I believe both are infinitely progressive and integral to each other.
Language	English
Keywords	PROGRESS; REASON; SCIENCE; RELIGION
Number of pages	327

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