Bertrand Russell once said that philosophy is the gray area between science and religion. What he may have intimated is the extent to which both philosophy and religion would recede in their authority to explain the events of the world, both in the subjective and objective realms, as science provides an increasingly adequate and demonstrable analysis of the universe. The time is rapidly approaching when the bookends of his statement will come closer and closer together with the growing implausibility of supernatural explanation. While Christianity has traditionally relied on the supernatural to explain its core beliefs, much of Buddhism has lent itself to an practical, experiential and subjectively experimental approach, which shied away from metaphysical speculations.
[pdf]http://www.dhammikaweb.com/pdfs/Buddhist_Meditation_and_the_Brain.pdf[/pdf]
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