Since I've been particularly lazy the last month and haven't posted at all, I figured I would tackle an abnormally large topic to make up for it. The religion vs science debate is as old as...well, religion and science, and despite a few thousand years of trying neither side has made much headway. There are a few things to keep in mind when talking about something like this. 1, there is no definitive answer, at least not yet. In fact, there probably never will be since God can never be disproven, and the only way to absolutely prove God is if he shows up one day taking a dump on the hood of your Volvo. 2, there is room for both. In simplistic terms science serves to tell us how, religion is there to tell us why. 3, there are roughly 7,004,351,812 opinions on the subject, as there are roughly 7,004,351,812 people on the planet. However, the vast majority of these people are not me, so their opinions don't count here.
Since returning to school I've been loaded up on science classes, which is cool because I love science. Generally speaking though scientists aren't really believers in a higher power. When I go to work though, even non believers stop sometimes and consider a higher power. Sometimes it's the only way our...well your, tiny human brains can comprehend some things. The fact is, when it comes to healing sometimes people do what we do best. We act like giant assholes and have our bodies do the exact opposite of what they should.
There's also the fact that science is full of shit. I mean, sure we have figured out some amazing things. We can do the impossible, we can build the unbuildable, we can make the snozberries taste like snozberries. We can launch people into space, whisper across the planet, and show how every cell in our body performs the mechanical functions required of it. However, we're no closer than Isaac Newton was explaining WHY that apple hurt when it fell on his head, WHY it pissed him off, or even how in the hell we can remember who Isaac Newton is anyways. That last one is likely a matter of time, and the reason we haven't figured it out yet is most likely because we just don't have the technology to see it very well. Once we do figure out how memory works though it will still leave us miles away from knowing anything about the whys.
Our bodies aren't the only place this happens either. Every once in a while science will be tooling around on a Sunday drive, things looking great, explaining the shit out of everything, then it will hit a little pot hole...And in science a little pothole is something that bounces your car off a 100 foot cliff, causes it to explode mid air, then randomly rearrange its particles into a sperm whale and a petunia that crash into a fiery black hole of doom at the bottom.
Here is an actual video:
So what about me you ask? You are asking that right? Of course you are, everyone wants to know what I think. I stand firmly in the category of "It's above my pay grade". I believe in God, no I don't have any proof, no I'm not going to go find you any proof, it's just a feeling...you know, one of those things science doesn't have the first clue about how to figure out. I love science too. Hell, science and I are tighter than Snookies pillows in a 3 sizes too small spandex shirt. It hasn't done a thing to convince me that we will ever be able to figure out certain things though. So for now, I'm going to use science to fix anything I can, and pray for the rest.
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