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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Science and Religion

The other day, during my obscenely long midterm lunch block, I mentioned to an acquaintance of mine that I was deeply religious. But am I? I go to church every Sunday, I sing in the choir, I serve on the altar. But I still swear, I make sex jokes, I'm mean to people I don't like, and I sit less than a phonebook away from my girlfriend.
The truth is, when put in perspective, looking throughout time, I'm about as unreligious as you can get. However, by today's standards, I am off the scale of religiousness. Most people know little or nothing about God, many other Catholics I know only go to church on Christmas, and that isn't even right, if you only go once a year, you should go on Easter. In my religious Ed class, most of the kids are there against their will because the parents are still desperately holding onto the last scrap of moral fiber the kid has. Church attendance is also way down in the past twenty years, the number of priests is steadily declining, and the world is becoming more and more secular everyday. People are losing interest in religion and faith. There are still some religious people out there, but a portion of them seem to me like they are only doing it to stand out among the crowd. When people do this, they are usually real open, too open, about their religion. When I know someone who does that, I take their religion, and tack "super" onto the front. I know one super-protestant, who posts about prayer, a very private thing, on Facebook, and one super-jew, who glares at you if you mention Hitler in any way. To paraphrase the bible, "Don't pray in public, you're only doing it for attention." These people may be religious for the wrong reasons, but at least they act with the ethic, but overall, interest in faith is dying.
Why is this happening? A mere two hundred years ago, you would be a social outcast if you didn't spend literally all day in church on Sunday. Entire wars were fought over religion, and still are, but only in parts of the world where science is not as prevalent, is this a coincidence? Absolutely not. Science is the source of all these problems, and I'm not saying we go back to the Stone Age. The root of the problem is people are misinterpreting science for what it really is. Hundreds of years ago, people used religion to explain science. Lightning was a pissed-off Zeus, the world is here because God created it in seven days. Sciences like the Big Bang Theory convince some people that there is no God, But I have thought otherwise. The big bang theory states that before the universe was created, all the matter existed in a singularity, which was infinitely small, hot, and dense. This singularity then exploded and created the universe, static on your TV is leftover energy from the explosion. The only unanswered question of this theory is what trigged the explosion? Well I can only assume that you would need a giant source of power. But nothing besides the singularity existed, so how could that power be generated? My answer: God.
People who say that science disproves the existence of God have it all wrong. A long time ago, people used God to explain science, now, we must use science to explain God.

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