Monday, October 03, 2005
On God and Science
God asked us to take stewardship of our earth and everything within it. What would be a better way to accomplish that than to understand our surroundings, to find out how things work in nature, and to seek the truth--the laws and principles--that governs the physics of this world? Science is a tool and nothing more. Science is a systematic way for studying things and processes. Science tries not to explain God nor to test His existence because of its inability to do. Why, I ask. Why do some people find it so hard to accept the conclusions drawn by science? Is it because there is an inherent uncertainty that lies within the answers provided by science? The lack of an absolute is what some people are afraid of or, to a lesser degree, unwilling to partake. Or is it the fear of the power of science? Fearing that it might, just might, unveiling the truth that contradicts what God has laid down for us. What happen to our faith in Him? If He provides us with a tool, shouldn't we use it to its full extent? But not to fear what the tool will tell us about His creation? Or is it really a fear that rests upon overturning the status-quo? A fear manufactured by the our very own insecurity, lack of knowledge, and lack of understanding of Him and his creation.
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Perhaps the answer lies in what we perceive God as - a creator? A monarch? A guardian? A friend, a supervisor, or even a dream? Or perhaps a celestrial being whom we sense about his/her presence...
Consider another view point... God may not be for us to perceive or define arbitrarily. We can think of Him as our creator, our friend, our guardian... but these are perceptions of our own... not from God or of God.
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