Why? ...Such is that notorious question that is incessantly bothers great minds ( and also that of toddlers), in their attempt to decipher "a" puzzle, whatever its nature, which came to be baptized as SCIENCE!
And just like The movie "Contact" illustrated, an attempt to describe faith, the belief in the unseen, would be venturing into finding the point at which two parallel lines cross each other.
Intelligent Design vs. Big Bang
Resurrection vs. Post schock Ressuscitation
Divine Intervention (Mary, Sarah..) vs. Artificial Insemination (Cloning, Stem Cells...)
Him vs them ......
Are "Believing" scientist then called to choose sides? Pick between which represents more accurately the true essence of their being? Do they then become hypocritical if they dont? For too long society has tried to characterize the discourse of these two notions as a duality, and intrisically a mutually exclusive concept. Then the question becomes Who is Society? which is another scientifically challenging topic, although ideological in nature. Venturing into that would spell out digressing. So here are we, believing scientists, victims of the Inquisitive monster, in search for the answer, why? who? and what? as they apply to all the "Versus" above.
The discourse around this topic had made its ways into schools, governmental policies, clerical doctrines but even more so the human mind.
Various theories have tried to prove the existence of God (Causality and so on). Atheistic views have also made their way to the top often times using scientific facts.
(Darlington What are you trying to say?)
May it be that the puzzle we are trying to solve, or recently unravelled was pre-existing. After all a puzzle, while it generates excitement and a sense of pride once solved, is created as a whole (in the factory).
In other words, is the latest scientific discovery, an archive in God's Patent journal?
If so, is it safe to say that science can only take us so far, and that God takes it from there? Or Is it then that society's increasingly prideful nature refuses to credit the "Creator" and decides to reward the "discoverer", or rather attribute both terminologies to the "discoverer".
This pride has made us (society) call the greatest discoveries accidents, or luck.
Hypocritically , this pride has associated the greatest acts of science (publications in elite journal, and nobels of distinguishable stature) with discoveries directly or somewhat indirectly related to life in its simplest form. (DNA, Bacteria, Plant species -refs-)
Its as if we know, yet we fail to recognize.
Whichever the case, I know that there is a God, without whom nothing would be possible including scientific intellectual prowess. It is also absolutely absurd and prideful to insinuate that we, as human, understand "the method behind the madness".
Ironically, thank God we dont get charged with Plagiarism! By who ?
However, the process in which one seeks ,without shoving humility aside, to make a contribution by fetching a bucket of water in God's unending reservoir is called SCIENCE!, while knowing that there exist this imaginary reservoir leads to FAITH
So are they mutually exclusive? To the prideful mind, yes they are! But then again i maybe wrong.
Friday, February 20, 2009
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