Science and religion - pointing at the same truth after all

From Baha'u'llah, Founder of the Baha'i Faith:

Say: Nature in its essence is the embodiment of My Name, the Maker, the Creator....Nature is God’s Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world. It is a dispensation of Providence... Were anyone to affirm that it is the Will of God as manifested in the world of being, no one should question this assertion.

From: The world according to quantum mechanics: why the laws of physics make perfect sense after all by Ulrich Mohrhoff:

For at least twenty-five centuries, theorists—from metaphysicians to natural philosophers to physicists and philosophers of science—have tried to explain the world from the bottom up, starting from an ultimate multiplicity and using concepts of composition and interaction as their basic explanatory tools. And still it does not strike us that the attempt to model reality from the bottom up—whether on the basis of an intrinsically and completely differentiated space or spacetime, out of locally instantiated physical properties, or by aggregation, out of a multitude of individual substances—is at odds with what quantum mechanics is trying to tell us: that reality is structured from the top down, by a self-differentiation of UR [Ultimate Reality] that does not bottom out...

The idea that reality is structured from the top down is traditionally associated with the concept of manifestation: there is an Ultimate Reality or Pure Being, which manifests the world or manifests itself as the world (without thereby losing its essential unity).

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For thousands of years, religions and cultural traditions of the more developed civilizations have each and all emphasized the importance of the control of sexual behavior to social order and stability.

Since the mid-twentieth century, and increasingly within the last generation, norms of sexual behavior have changed radically. Basically, almost all restrictions and limits on sexuality are increasingly viewed as pathological and absurd.  At the same time, we see the number of children living without their father, and even living with grandparents skyrocketing year after year, particularly among the socially and economically disadvantaged. Social surveys show us how incredibly damaging it is for children to grow up without both parents.

Is it possible that thousands of years of cultural and religious traditions around the entire world had very good reason to insist on control of the sex drive?

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