Cosmic Queries: Until the End of Time, with Brian Greene (Re-Release)
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The Role of Religion in the Spiritual Journey
Dr. Tyson: There is a role for religion that some of our colleagues step on and dismiss out of hand entirely. No one can use any religious doctrine to calculate the electron's magnetic moment to nine decimal places, which we can do routinely with quantum field theory. But if you think about religion as something that doesn't illuminate the external world, but rather the internal world of conscious experience... Then there is arole for it. And you don't judge it by whether it can explain the external world. That's not what it's meant to do. You judge it byWhether it is a satisfying way of trying to understand your place in the universe.
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