Wednesday, February 18, 2009

let the two then shake hands

Let science and faith then shake hands.

Does not each need the other? Doesn't science need ideas about reality to explore the way in which reality, and even non-reality may work? Why would science refute philosophy or faith? Instead, let it happily wager the challenge as a friend.

Personally, I don't get angry now when new science comes about to explain the world. When I questioned the existence of God because of new findings in science, I began to realize how silly I was. What is even more amusing to me, is how quickly and frequently the foundations of science change, and how consistent and always present God has been. There is no formula or complication in God, he just IS. If he wasn't simple and readily available to every human who seek Him, what kind of loving God would He be?

I have been amused today when I started reading an article today on Scientific American about how Einstein was afraid the notion of quantum mechanics would throw his theories of relativity and the everyday physics as we know today out the window. Well, his physics are still with us today, but just as we look out to the stars at the seemingly infinite vastness, we are now turning our microscopes inward to seeing an even smaller universe at the molecular level. Why then does science pride itself into thinking it will one day know all the answers about how reality works, when we continually keep finding new evidence that blows old theories out of the water? Could this not go on forever? You then begin to see that we may never understand our world completely and we may even become extinct before we figure that out. I'm not saying we shouldn't try, what I am getting at, is there needs to be halting of the fisticuffs between science and faith. There needs to be a friendship.

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