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I saw Angels & Demons last night. Though I did not read the book, either Dan Brown or Ronny Howard (director), or both, were trying to make the point that religion and science need not be divided. That's crap!!
Strict science can not and does not recognize any god/s, as the existence of one is based on faith, and has not yet been proven. Science is based on proofs, and only proofs, not assumptions or beliefs, and proving something, not once, but over and over. And the proofs must be able to be duplicated and confirmed by independent sources. Religion needs no proof. It's based on believing what you're told to believe, blindly.
Religion is based on faith, and faith needs no proof. In fact, there is no direct evidence that Jesus Christ was ever born. There is no proof he ever walked the earth. All reports of him are from disciples with a cause to promote, which essentially became the tales in the New Testament.
Throughout history there have been people who claim to be scientists and also deeply religious, but “hard” science—physicists, mathematicians, biologists and the like who are also believers are fewer than touted by the faithful. The National Academy of Sciences claims upwards of 93% of its members are non-believers. Averaging many independent studies show that anywhere from 45 to 60% of scientists across all disciplines in America claim to be atheists or agnostics, well above the 12% national average shown in an ARIS 2008 study.
Damn lies and statistics because the above figures may be wildly inaccurate as so many are afraid to ‘come out of the closet’ in fear of damaging their reputation or their career by admitting to being an atheist. But even for scientists who believe in god and practice a religion, this does not mean the two disciplines are in any way synonymous.
Science and religion are not pals, as Dan Brown might insist. They are opponents. Both can not exist in the same space since they are diametrically opposed concepts and practices. Science is all about thinking, questioning, probing, searching for answers to the unknown, and sometimes seemingly unknowable. Scientists make assumptions and then PROVE their theories, testing again and again for validation.
Religion promotes ignorance with ancient dogma conjured by men to control the masses by creating an outside deity that could not, and by its own laws must not be questioned. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden for eating from the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Those who seek truth through proofs can’t possible accept the fairytales of religion.
Thomas Alva Edison was a strict atheist. Even Albert Einstein’s 1930 credo What Do I Believe, states that his only religion is to “sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man.” In other words, god, nor a soul, nor an afterlife, nor virtually any common religious thread was part of Einstein’s beliefs.
So, Dan Brown, Ronny Howard, even Tom Hanks if he too is promoting such lunacy, science and religion becoming good buddies is grossly misguided. And though we all exist in a world that has both, never the twain shall meet. By their very nature, science and belief will forever be fundamentally divided.
J. Cafesin
www.jcafesin.com
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