People's Nature as "Definer"

Key to understanding science and religion is to first understand people's nature as "definer".

 We divide the universe into ever-smaller elements, then assign words to them.

Dictionary Through a Magnifying Glass

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Personal Renewal in Context" on Productivity in Context web site

Next, we  build "models", which are human-created representatives of the "real thing".  These models are used to understand the relationship between the objects to which we have assigned words.

We do this for efficiency and predictability.
The Observer/Observed Model

The traditional observer/observed (aka perceiver/ peraceived) model proves to be too simplistic to explain the relationship between them (the observer and the observed), and the nature of "reality".

Observer/Observed

See how I expand this model to give greater insight into what we do when we observe the universe.

And help us understand how the word we call "reality: helps us inderstand the gap between science and religion.

Our "Model" of God
What do we "observe" that leads us to assign the word "God" to something within our experience?  

God as perceived

Examiningg the human process of assigning the word "God" and developing a model, leads us to the question:

Whom shall I worship, the God I created or the
God that created me?


Followed closely by the question:
 
How does one tell the difference?