SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY: DISCOVERY OF TRUTH
Tahir Ul Mulk Kahlon, Aneel Salman, Nadia Asghar · Research Journal of Social Science & Management · 2014
The purpose of this paper is the discovery of truth. It develops a relationship between technology and spirituality, which is a bold ambition and requires a lot of logical reasoning. Humans involved in technological explorations are in search of spiritual enlightenment or vice versa? This document is a stream of thoughts, and its goal is not to convince anyone rather in the words of Shakespeare confound” and “confuse and of course motivate us to seek the truth. Economists assume and try to analyse with logic. There are some assumptions on technology and spirituality that are widely held and accepted: 1. Spirituality and technology are as oil and water, and thus do not mix. 2. Spirituality is obviously superior to technology. 3. Technology has a value in monetary terms, but spirituality has no price. 4. The technology is cold, inhuman, heart of stone, but spirituality is deeply human and warm. These assumptions revolve around the notion of God, because people think that spirituality is God / Nature and technology is not natural and is apart from God. Technology is an object used against God and we try to build on our own what God has planned for us or refused to us purposely. With technology, we are asserting our independence and God