God and Science
"In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth..." (Genesis 1:1), the words that start it all if you are a Catholic. Children are brought up to believethat God took seven days out of his schedule to create the earth and all that is in and on it from a "formless wasteland" (Genesis 1:2). He gave man his shape and thekeys to paradise and life rolls on from there. They know history of man through the Bible, and if it is not in the Bible, it did not happen. Die hard followers the Bibleknow little outside of the Good Book and thusly show their Those who took on the ideals of the enlightenment or raised with little to no theological beliefs havequestioned the existence of God and the Bible. They have chosen to have the power of science be their creator and saviour. No mythical oracles, no prophets, just thetheories of motion, space, and relativity to guide them in their lives, and the gap has never been filled. To them, all of the questions can be answered with one answer:E=MC2. Since the first questions of the validity of the Bible arose with people like Aristotle, Plato, and Moses Maimonides. In fact, Maimonides said, "conflictsbetween science and the Bible arise from either from a lack of
There is no way that the universe could have been that lucky to create the elements needed to spring forth life. Religion talks of the"miracle of birth" as being something given to a woman for being faithful to God. The scientific death explanation is about as cold as the birth one, but still does not give an answer to theafterlife. Jesus walking on the water to show Peter and Paul his majesty; Jesus changing water into wine at the wedding in Cana; helping the blind see again; all arescientific impossibilities, but the Bible says it is true because Jesus is the son of God. The belief in religion andthe understanding of science do not have to conflict and contradict each other; they can work together in helping people fully understand the universe, the world, lifeand death, and most importantly themselves. The religion translation of this statement is that something that precise could only have been made by some divine creator. Death as seen as the body simply shutting down the heart, brain, and other vital organs stop functioning, thus having no energy left to operate and live. Harmony is being found, and questions that are more personal are being answered. We are merelytold "The earth brought forth" life. "Genesis agrees: when life first appears on the third day, the word creation does not appear (in the text). What he means isthat science cannot answer everything with science or the Bible; there must be some happy medium where the two can play off each other. God intentionally keeps that a secret from mortal men so that fear and obedience can be instilled. First in the religious argument: that "if the laws of nature are not fixed, if they are being tampered with in some miraculous way, then science is useless. It is truly something everyone can agree on. Sociologists (behavioural scientists) describe religion as merely the answers to where do we come from (birth), andwhere do we go when we die? Two very important questions in every person's life, but only one school of thought has an answer for both.
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