Science Without Religion example essay topic

Using Science to Understand GodIn this day, there continues to be a great deal of hostility promoted from the pulpits, the media, and visible scientists around the world in the area of science and religion. Some preachers suggest to their congregations that science is evil and opposed to morality and belief in God. Some visible scientists suggest that religion is an out-of-date mythological belief system that opposes progress and enslaves people to a lifestyle that brings them harm. The media seems to take delight in vilifying religion and promoting the inconsistencies of those who claim to be religious.

Why do so many otherwise good believers in God and otherwise good believers in science get caught up in the science versus religion debate? Science is science, and religion is religion. Creationism is neither. Using bad science to back up bad literal Biblical translations is not scientific and not religious. How religious or scientific are you really when you have to use crap science (lies) to back up your religion?

How religious or scientific are you really when you have to deny the facts of good science to support your religion. I don't see how changing the way you think about the Bible when science gives you a good reason to do so makes you any less or any worse of a Christian. In fact, I think it makes you a better Christian. Some scientists will tell you that discovering things about the Earth does not mean that God didn't create it. And some scientist will tell you that discovering things about the nature of the Earth does not prove that God doesn't exist.

A lot of religious scholars can tell you the same thing. Both will tell you that if God loves us as much as the Bible says so, then He doesn't want us to forever remain ignorant. If you find things in the Bible and read them literally to justify your refusal to use the reasoning abilities that God has so graciously provided for you (the same reasoning used in science), then you are the one going against God, not the scientists. Science is a gift from God to help us understand the world around us.

Those who seek to unlock the secrets of the natural world around us through science are being led by God. Exploring our natural world to gain a greater understanding of it and to find better uses for the things around us is what God wants us to do. A part of the problem in this matter is the inability of many people on all sides of the issue to understand how science works, what believing in design leads us to, and how evolution fits into what both science and the Bible say. Another part of the problem has been that some evolutionists and some religious personalities just want to have a good fight and do not understand the opposing view or try to make peace with it. The result is tragic.

Albert Einstein could not have said it better than: 'Religion without science is lame, but science without religion is blind. ' The place where significant problems arise, as far as those who believe blind chance is the cause of all we see, is in the applications of science to discoveries. (Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein, Bonanza Books, page 46, 1954). If one believes this statement there is purpose in the cosmos, and especially if that purpose is uniquely connected to man as the Bible describes it, then all humans have value and man is the steward of all that a great intelligence has given us. Richard Dawkins, the famous atheist biologist, has said: 'In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, and other people are going to get lucky; and you won't find any rhyme or reasoning to it, or any justice.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at the bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good. Nothing but blind pitiless indifference. DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is, and we dance to its music' (Out of Eden, New York: Basic Books, 1992, page 133). If, on the other hand, then man is simply a meaningless ship in the winds of chance, and survival of the fittest and chance are the only determiners of who survives and who does not.

If there is no good and no evil and everything is blind, then you have no case for morality and how discoveries like the human genome are to be used has no real direction. In closing, I feel that we should just consider each others beliefs and keep in mind that science is science, and religion is religion. They are not the enemy of one another just use to justify both theories. And with both at hand, we can make this world more knowledgeable.