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Sunday, 07 February 2010

SCIENCE VS RELIGION

 

What is the appropriate role of religion in matters of science? Can religion survive science? Can both science and religion close the “GOD” gap? Are religion and science compatible? Can one embrace a scientific world view and still participate fully in one of the world's religious traditions? I asked these questions today because I WHOLE heartedly believe in faith. I'm not sure science and logic can account for all things at all times. A lot of us have some trouble dealing with the randomness of reality. Sometimes stuff just happens. There's no rhyme or reason for how life is MOST time, yet we search for some reason to make things make sense and when it CANNOT be, we go to religion. I can see why this would be a NATURAL resource, but faith AND religion are entirely different things. Faith can be in anything so when we allow it to cause us to not accept what science is telling us, is it surprising that SCIENCE & RELIGION are @ war?

Some believe that science can neither prove NOR disprove the existence of a God, so does that mean that God does not work in a scientific manner? I beg to differ; if religious persons accept the concept of God, then surely they can accept that he created man and gave him knowledge to prove OR disprove his existence…right? How does one reject science after all the good it has done for us? ESPECIALLY when religion teaches that believing in the invisible is more important than understanding the perceivable. Why does personal faith trump critical thinking? 

Some try to prove the existence of God by pointing to the “PERFECTION” of the bible as a historical and prophetic document, when MOST of the stories they believe have SO many holes in them. They hold onto religious thinking that this is all a GRAND design when the sciences of biology and geology and such have provided far, far better explanations for what the GRAND design really is. Religion provides us, as individuals, with its ethical and human perspectives on civic decisions, including judgments on issues prompted by scientific discoveries. 

After all, we see that science is concrete, real and true; religion is still struggling to find to find some authenticity. I guess when it comes to down to it, the feeble minded desire an easy explanation, which religion provides; and who doesn’t LOVE the easy way out? Can these two sides ever reconcile their differences? Is there room for science in religion? Is it anti-religion to be pro-science? I didn’t intend of concluding this with more questions, but life is just one BIG question after the other. But in the final analysis it is my opinion that we abandon the intellectual ball and chain of religious belief and embrace reality, enjoy the world as it is, and let go of your desire for what it is not, religion might actually have a chance…

7 comments:

  1. "Is it anti-religion to be pro-science? "

    This is the age old debate


    Great Post!

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  2. I think that many people confuse "religion" i.e. the organized practice of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Bhudism etc. with faith and spirituality. I'm done a long time ago with organized religion but believe in God. Don't see those "God is Love" bumper stickers much anymore but still sounds good to me. I believe that God (he/she/it) as "spirit" exists within each of us waiting to be discovered.

    You've done it again man.

    Peeace and love.

    Scott

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  3. This debate is one of the toughest to face. Agreeing on anything is almost impossible to apposing groups. I believe with science, one must also have faith in something greater because science isn't 100% and religion is theory.

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  4. TOY COUTURE - THANK YOU!

    SCOTT - HE/SHE/IT IS SOOOOOO WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED...

    THENAKEDBLACKGUY - YOU WOULD THINK THAT AFTER ALL THIS TIME THEY WOULD SEE THAT THEIR DEBATING ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE...

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  5. Science routinely bridges the gap between the clinical and the spiritual.
    Many people believe both are two ends of the same loop and eventually one will completely define the other.
    Someone famous or wise or somehow notable person once said that any advanced science would, to those ignorant of its mechanics, appear to be magic.
    Religion routinely being a sparse believe in obviously fantastical or magical events can easily be seen to have been inspired by scientific events beyond the comprehension of the people witnessing them.
    This still occurs today.
    Give a bush man a cell phone or a blender and he's bound to either bow down and worship you as a god or vilify you as a demon.
    If one takes the view that science is the reach of mankind and religion or ethics it's grasp it becomes clear one cannot, or at the very least should not, exist without the other.

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  6. Science flies you to the moon – religion flies you into buildings. ;-)

    Extremist are not atheist! :-0

    Now, let the church say AaaaaMen!

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  7. COGENT ASCENDING - I LOVE THE WAY YOUR MIND WORKS...

    AUSFAHRT - AAAAAMMMMEEEENNNN!

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