Philosophy The second coming (relations between science and religion)

The Second Coming ~ ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world’ W. B. Yeats Etching a grotesque rendition of civilizations cyclical unfolding, W. B. Yeats poem ‘The Second Coming’ alludes to a future where the controls that bind humanity together loose their force and a new impulse is required. Likewise amidst strange days, omens of the …

…then we should try to see the big picture; But we should always, as both science and religion entreat, seek the truth. And the truth is that science and religion are not at war. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? W. B. Yeats