The problem Eppie, is that there is a large portion of the population of the United States of America that believes the same way. These people have gravitated towards the Republican Party (though they aren't just exclusively republican), and have taken a party that was about less government intrusion in your life (that's a pretty simple, boiled down summary of their philosophies) and turned it into the mouth piece for the mainstay of the Conservative Christian populace of the country.
Despite what some people will try and get you to believe the poll numbers are out there. There is a very large, active portion of the United States Population that is trying to undermine the progression of science (and so help me if I have to put perspective on how people are undermining, I'm going to explode. If you teach another being that science is wrong, you are trying to undermine science), because they have adopted a very literal stance about their religion, and are taking their cues from documents that were written 2000+ years ago, without considering the historical, cultural, and scientific perspectives of the documents, because sometime between then (50AD ish), and now, Heads of the Church decided that these texts were divinely inspired. That doesn't explain the large stockpile of historical "religious" texts that they have withheld. Were none of those divinely inspired? How do we know?
Not all people of Faith believe these things. Not all people who claim to believe in God believe this way. Science doesn't "debunk" the idea that there is a god, and belief in god doesn't debunk science. At least... they don't have to debunk each other. The problem and conflict between the two of them arises (primarily) when science shows us the reasonings behind things, and people discount it, because they choose to follow things that were written at a time when we did not possess the means as beings to study our surroundings with the capabilities that we have now.
Instead of embracing a larger understanding of our surroundings, there is resistance. Some, I believe is in fear. Not fear that "God may not be real". But fear in the loss of power. Fear that if things are explained, and that science is able to explain more about how this existence works, that the power found in the hierarchy of an Organized Religion will be lost. And just so we're clear, I'm not strictly speaking of the Christian Church, so put the bigot signs down. I'm speaking of any organized religion in this instance. I'm holding them all to the same standard.
At this point, nothing that science shows can prove that there is not a higher power. It can prove how things work. How things happen. How we got here. How we have evolved. How we have become a sentient organism. How the other things in the galaxy work. How they were made. How that stuff works. But, and this is what my whole thing is, what have they done to prove that there isn't some higher power, or divine being? Maybe everything we have learned is how the toolbox that the being opened up and used works. Maybe "And God said let there be light" was a "Big Bang". Maybe human evolution as we know it, was the "6 days" (which I have addressed before, multiple times) of Evolution. The Bible says that Man was created on the last, "6th Day". Maybe that was the "end" of that evolutionary cycle. Maybe that's how the stories were interpreted. The story of creation is told from a man who wrote it some 2500 years after Adam is said to have lived. That's a long time for things to get passed, person to person, storyteller to storyteller.
Now, Science is showing us how this all worked. I find it incredibly silly to discount science because of Faith, and vice versa. Faith, and Science, shouldn't be competing to disprove one another. People on both sides at times forget this. I'm just as excited to read about new scientific discoveries in all sciences as I am at the prospect of getting to read some long lost, and recently discovered text written in a time that seems so long ago.
Maybe the show Ancient Aliens is right. Maybe "God" is an Alien. And he's not coming back until Human Beings can figure some stuff out. Or, he's that kid with an Ant Farm, watching what "happens"
Despite what some people will try and get you to believe the poll numbers are out there. There is a very large, active portion of the United States Population that is trying to undermine the progression of science (and so help me if I have to put perspective on how people are undermining, I'm going to explode. If you teach another being that science is wrong, you are trying to undermine science), because they have adopted a very literal stance about their religion, and are taking their cues from documents that were written 2000+ years ago, without considering the historical, cultural, and scientific perspectives of the documents, because sometime between then (50AD ish), and now, Heads of the Church decided that these texts were divinely inspired. That doesn't explain the large stockpile of historical "religious" texts that they have withheld. Were none of those divinely inspired? How do we know?
Not all people of Faith believe these things. Not all people who claim to believe in God believe this way. Science doesn't "debunk" the idea that there is a god, and belief in god doesn't debunk science. At least... they don't have to debunk each other. The problem and conflict between the two of them arises (primarily) when science shows us the reasonings behind things, and people discount it, because they choose to follow things that were written at a time when we did not possess the means as beings to study our surroundings with the capabilities that we have now.
Instead of embracing a larger understanding of our surroundings, there is resistance. Some, I believe is in fear. Not fear that "God may not be real". But fear in the loss of power. Fear that if things are explained, and that science is able to explain more about how this existence works, that the power found in the hierarchy of an Organized Religion will be lost. And just so we're clear, I'm not strictly speaking of the Christian Church, so put the bigot signs down. I'm speaking of any organized religion in this instance. I'm holding them all to the same standard.
At this point, nothing that science shows can prove that there is not a higher power. It can prove how things work. How things happen. How we got here. How we have evolved. How we have become a sentient organism. How the other things in the galaxy work. How they were made. How that stuff works. But, and this is what my whole thing is, what have they done to prove that there isn't some higher power, or divine being? Maybe everything we have learned is how the toolbox that the being opened up and used works. Maybe "And God said let there be light" was a "Big Bang". Maybe human evolution as we know it, was the "6 days" (which I have addressed before, multiple times) of Evolution. The Bible says that Man was created on the last, "6th Day". Maybe that was the "end" of that evolutionary cycle. Maybe that's how the stories were interpreted. The story of creation is told from a man who wrote it some 2500 years after Adam is said to have lived. That's a long time for things to get passed, person to person, storyteller to storyteller.
Now, Science is showing us how this all worked. I find it incredibly silly to discount science because of Faith, and vice versa. Faith, and Science, shouldn't be competing to disprove one another. People on both sides at times forget this. I'm just as excited to read about new scientific discoveries in all sciences as I am at the prospect of getting to read some long lost, and recently discovered text written in a time that seems so long ago.
Maybe the show Ancient Aliens is right. Maybe "God" is an Alien. And he's not coming back until Human Beings can figure some stuff out. Or, he's that kid with an Ant Farm, watching what "happens"
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