Is Anything that’s not Scientific filled by God?
Intelligent
Design is not a new concept where we believe anything that ‘’cannot’’ be
explained with the limited human knowledge should be filled by God, instead it
is anything that can be explained by human knowledge combined with anything
that cannot be explained with it. So the more we find new scientific data and
facts, the better we understand ‘’how’’ God made it happen. Evolution was a new
thing but people are starting to find a pattern with evolution and God because
religion in reality has never dealt with explaining ‘’how’’ instead it deals
with ‘’why’’ and these two can work hand in hand without contradiction, Anyhow
due to the way evolution was promoted in the past targeting to solely disprove
God there has been a cult of haters in both sides of religion and atheism who
have failed to find a balance. Indeed you get the extremist who ‘’completely’’
deny such a science and then also you get the extremist who ‘’completely’’ deny
God without any scientific backup.
Science is not required to prove Faith
If a
religious person believes in God it has to do with ‘’faith’’ than science. So
he/she does not require science to prove faith instead she/he can use science
to increase faith through analyzing patterns of nature. A recent research has
shown that people of faith find patterns in the surrounding better than people
who don’t have faith,
‘’Several studies have revealed that people who
practice meditation or have prayed for many years exhibit increased activity
and have more brain tissue in their frontal lobes’’
This is not
supposedly a bad thing because people who find something out of nothing have
their right to fill their hypothesis with their own consciousness. Taking what
is unknown and figuring it out does not have one ‘’correct’’ answer.
But Science is required to disprove God
But if a strict
non believer had to disprove God, he/she has to use science to disprove God because
non-believers of the supernatural should base life ‘’only’’ on scientific
facts. Indeed it might sound funny to disprove faith through science. God might
not belong in the science class room, but a believer of a God sure belongs in
any class room. The least argument science can bring is it’s very ‘’unlikely’’
for God to exist but that will not disprove God to be false. Now let’s see if
it’s worth to give up something that cannot be scientifically proven or
disproven?
Religion Is Hope and Meaning to life
Certain
qualitative questions of life do not get answers by science for me. When my
nanny got depressed she tried anti-depressant medicine which was only
chemically fixing her issue by hiding the actual cause of depression, when she
later decided to try religion through the comfort it gives to the spirit by
meditation and belief that her personality will continue for eternity she naturally
cured her depression and has felt better about life. Such valuable spiritual
benefits of religion are not worthy to be left out for something that is not
proven to be false through science.
If you have
heard about logo therapy, the human brain functions in a way where ‘’hope’’ and
‘’purpose of life’’ increases happiness and gives meaning to life. The
spiritual concept of religion gives an eternal hope which can benefit if used
in the right way. Science can be used for something disastrous as Hiroshima and
also religion can be used for something evil as suicide bombing. But both of
those can also be used for a good cause if done in the right way and direction.
Just to give an
example of the power of ‘meaning to life’’ As Victor Frank states in ‘’Mans search for meaning’’
‘’Once, an elderly general practitioner consulted
me because of his severe depression. He could not overcome the loss of his wife
who had died two years before and whom he had loved above all else. Now, how
could I help him? What should I tell him? Well, I refrained from telling him
anything but instead confronted him with the question, "What would have
happened, Doctor, if you had died first, and your wife would have had to
survive you?" "Oh," he said, "for her this would have been
terrible; how she would have suffered!" Whereupon I replied, "You
see, Doctor, such a suffering has been spared her, and it was you who have
spared her this suffering—to be sure, at the price that now you have to survive
and mourn her." He said no word but shook my hand and calmly left my
office. In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a
meaning ‘’
When many prisoners were put in Nazi concentration camps, they all were facing a terrible virus
spreading around. It was around November and people had a rumor of ‘’hope’’
that for Christmas they will be set free. Many people lived with the Virus
infection fighting hard for life and none were reported dead. But suddenly when
it was Christmas they got to know that freedom was just an illusion, and the
people suddenly started to die of that same virus which they lived with for
month’s right from the next day 26th December. Only a few that
had longer hope or belief in God survived.
Such is the
power of hope and meaning to life, this is something Science will never answer
and never take away from our life.
As the author of ‘’Mans search for meaning’’ says
‘’The observations of this one case and the
conclusion drawn from them are in accordance with something that was drawn to
my attention by the chief doctor of our concentration camp. The death rate in
the week between Christmas, 1944, and New Year's, 1945, increased in camp
beyond all previous experience. In his opinion, the explanation for this
increase did not lie in the harder working conditions or the deterioration of
our food supplies or a change of weather or new epidemics. It was simply that
the majority of the prisoners had lived in the naive hope that they would be
home again by Christmas’’
Religion can make suffering and death meaningful
No we are not talking about extremist that use
religion to hurt others, but there are millions of billions out there who can
find happiness through religion even in the worse of condition.
A prisoner at the time of Nazi concentration camp
said
‘’But in reality our sacrifice did have a meaning.
Those of us who had any religious faith, I said frankly, could understand
without difficulty. I told them of a comrade who on his arrival in camp had
tried to make a pact with Heaven that his suffering and death should save the
human being he loved from a painful end. For this man, suffering and death were
meaningful; his was a sacrifice of the deepest significance. He did not want to
die for nothing. None of us wanted that.’’
I
will end it with a Quote by Martin Luther King jr
“Science
investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts;
religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
Reference
Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon, 2006. Print.
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