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Scientific method as method of investigation of truth-Belief to be true must be consistent with other established truths & must satisfied to be true & must be verified by scientific method. Revelation is unreliable, unsystematic unprogressive & obstruction to progress, requires checkmates. None of the ancient theistic religion had scientific method for truth investigation for belief in God.
Aurbindo, Radhakrishna, Radhaswami, Brahma Samaj, Arya Samaj none of them accepts scientific method but practice old method of revelation or mystic experience. Hence they are not true development on ancient religion. They are just re-affirmation of old scripts through fresh mystic experiences, or new interpretation of texts.
Buddhism - Nature existed for ever & always remain. Real nature is changeable every moment is changing its entirety. All animate - inanimate, having non living, big small entities always change is accordance with some fixed law of nature nothing happened against it. Miracles are impossible. There is no unchanging reality all is becoming ceaseless irresistible, irreversible & inevitable there is no unchanging God or soul or Brahma. Changes are expression of nature are law bound e.g. Heat expands metal change is due to heat & nature of metal heat does not expand wood.
For disease you have to take medicine to restore our condition of health miracles can't happen against nature laws of Karma is causal law in moral field Hindus disagrees with Karmas being causal which is autonomous & if moral governor of universe then it cant be autonomous. Buddha emphasis on attrustic virtues.
Man's life continues with physical force, chemical condition evolved in character of life origin as nature has no transcendental origin Nature continues with living forces has no transcendental destiny or world of
odied souls eternal entities like God, atma Ghost or spirit. Buddha holds human consequence of his actions hereafter. The existence of God is myth God cant be perceived. The world is made by the automatic combination of material elements & not by God. Buddhism is pessimistic faith suggest how to get light & peace by extinction of suffering decay death. Hope & aspiration are spur of creation & construction despair & depression are source of inaction & destruction Buddhison & Jainism does not believe in a creator or controller of the universe it is atheistic. Chinese Japan are nature centred. Doctrine of momentariness avers that nothing lasts for longer than & moment, all things emerges are impermanent.
Existence of thing is between origin & destruction which continues to be the same at next moment. Reality material or spiritual is a flux,
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