And now to focus a bit on science and God. Could science actually be bringing us closer to God? Let us assume that God did create the world as we know it. I am happy with such as assumption because I believe that this world is too amazing for it to be a random act of nature. Science is about discovering more about the world and trying to understand it. It tries to answer the big question: why are we here? If God did create us (or rather create something that would evolve into us) wouldn't he want us explore this world rather than think something as crazy as 'god put those fossils there to test our faith'. Science, in pursuing truth, would be finding God.
lol I remember going shopping with a friend and running in to this busking and we donated money to him. Then goes on all about god and stuff and one interesting thing I remember him talking about was the atom. Imagine you split the nucleus of the atom and you keep doing that over and over again then you'll see some particles - three of them infact. The three particles could represent the holy triniy - father, son and holy spirit. Arranged together this is called the 'god particle' or the Higgs boson. The busker guy said that this is god's sign to stop exploring. But we ignored this sign and researchers at CERN are researching and investigating this particle using the LHC - Large Hadron Collider (which will eventually create a black hole and kill the entire human race).
But there are those who will alway reject a scientific source because it contradicted their own deeply held belief and views. This is an interesting thought. You may have heard about the flight-or-fight response. When encountering a predator or an enemy the natural instinct is to either fight this being or to run away. Both responses are for the purpose of survival. It turns out that this response also works for information that contradicts your own belief, information that threatens you. When encountered with such information that person will either block it out completely or try to say how that scientific reasoning is wrong.
That busking dude was 1) crazy and 2) didn't know what he was talking about. The idea that the LHC has enough power to create a black hole large enough to even do a fraction of damage to the Earth is silly. It just isn't physically possible. On top of that, his understanding of the working of an atom seems to be pretty vague too. Then again, this would be why the guy is busking and not in a research lab somewhere. As far as the mystery of God, people can believe whatever they want, but there is no physical evidence for for his existence outside of the physical laws of nature, so there can never be a non-subjective view point, making it an unanswerable problem, so why worry about it?
ReplyDeleteScience and religion have come to a screeching halt, all of a sudden. I wonder why... all people care about is money at the moment XD
ReplyDeleteThe LHC creates mini black holes which blink in and out of existence already. If they would have killed us they probably would have already, though your post does a good job at being relatively neutral. Good post!
ReplyDeleteInteresting post...I don't believe in God myself, but I do fully support scientific advancement and the pursuit of truth.
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ReplyDeleteYou've got an interesting point there. I myself feel essentially the same way, but I don't think I could've phrased it as well.
ReplyDeleteRead the G.O.D. Process. Made me see things a little differently.
ReplyDeleteGod? What's that?
ReplyDeleteScience > God
ReplyDeletegreat article. either extreme is not good.
ReplyDeleteI believe in a higher power. I do also think that science can help explain god, and vice versa. But I don't believe what most main religions believe.
ReplyDeleteThe bible is true because it says so in the bible. How can you argue with this logic?
ReplyDeleteI'm more of the Einstein / Baruch de Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, science somehow brings us closer to understand God.
Interesting thoughts
ReplyDeleteVery interesting point, and very cool theory, the flight-or-fight response.
ReplyDeleteI'd say that you can't have enough information, so I'm against shutting down studies or lines of investigation.
How about just disregarding science and sticking with pure reason. The free will problem has been around for awhile, stating something along the lines of "If God knows everything infinitely, both past and future, how are the choices we come to make through our actions free by any account?" If the moment the universe was created, God knew you were going to make this blog post, was the action of making this blog post a free one? If you did not make this blog post, then God was wrong... which could never be the case.
ReplyDeletei just gonna say maybe.
ReplyDeleteWhen we are able to create entire worlds by ourselves we will becomes gods.
ReplyDeleteI like your take on the whole god vs science thing
ReplyDeleteAstronomy Pirate pretty much summed up my opinion.
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