Post #2 Science's Questions

"Science cannot answer the deepest questions. As soon as you ask why there is something instead of nothing, you have gone beyond science." Allan Sandage

Why can't science answer the deepest questions? Why can't science determine why there is something instead of nothing? Science is the pinnacle of Reason. Science sets the goals of rational thinking. And this is exactly why science cannot answer its own most profound questions. Rational thinking or Reason is a faculty of consciousness. Rational thinking is a way to access knowledge and seems to be the chosen path our culture utilizes, most knows and respects. It seems that civilization itself is the history of the developement of the art of Reason. Science seeks mechanical answers from a mechanical brain to an increasingly mechanical world, but science's questions are not mechanical questions. Science's questions are not questions answerable by Reason. Are there levels of consciousness beyond our most common and familiar ways of accessing knowledge? Are there levels of consciousness beyond Reason and Faith? What level of consciousness can find these profound answers to what is Real and what is not Real? It would seem that these thoughts and findings would have to flow from deep levels of consciousness and awareness that can penetrate layers and layers of historical debris to finally emerge from bedrock and beyond the bedrock of history to that of First Cause. The search for truth must probe deeper beyond the surface truth of our mechanical world. To put the quest for definition and perspective at an entry level, let's begin with these  observations: there cannot be 'up' if there isn't 'down', or 'hot' if there isn't 'cold', or 'high' if there isn't 'low', hence, if there is Reality there is Non-Reality. Creation is dichotomy based on this dichotomy of Reality/Non-Reality. Creation exists within itself and is real to and within itself. But is creation Real or is creation the image of Reality? Is creation the distorted, inverted image of a non-comprehendable Reality?