Word: sloane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...George Handzo: Dr. Sloan and I are pretty much in agreement, but it's important how one defines spiritual history and what actually goes into that. There's been a lot of fuzzy talk about what's screening, what's history, what's assessment. I would like to differentiate a history, and call that screening, and say that's the doctor's job. The physician's job, as Dr. Sloan pointed out correctly, is to discover where the problem is and get it pointed in the right direction. An assessment, a full [spiritual] assessment, would be the chaplain...
...Sloan: Let me ask you a different question. Would it be meaningful if we did a brain scan of someone before and after eating cheese? I don't understand the value of developing beautiful images, very appealing, aesthetic images of brain scans and people engaged in various religious experiences. I don't see the value any more than imaging people while eating cheese...
...Sloan, how do you react to the idea of a divine interventionist...
...Sloan: Well, that conception is antithetical to science. Science doesn't deal in supernatural explanations, and that's a supernatural explanation. Religion and science address different concerns, and it's perfectly plausible, I think, as Dr. Newberg has suggested, to be a scientist and still believe in divine presence. But that doesn't mean that your belief in the divine presence finds its way into your science. Those are different things. Religion deals with a different domain...
...Sloan: I frankly think there is nothing that science can do that can contribute to religion, and I think it's a fatal flaw to think that you can use the methods of science to learn something meaningful about religion...