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Religion and spirituality cannot solve the world-picture problem because they do not change the underlying mechanistic view of matter.

Spiritual overlays are frosting on the mechanistic cake; they do not penetrate or affect the way matter is conceived to work.

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Mechanistic cosmology
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The dominant scientific world-picture treating matter as inert, lifeless mechanism obeying mathematical laws, originating with Bacon, Descartes, Newton.

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