Science versus Religion

Science versus Religion...
And the winner is...neither.

Firstly, let's have both sides climb down from the imaginary intellectual and moral high-ground respectively. We both just end up sounding like der brains.  Der brains with flashy toys that make us think we've invented life or der brains who can just cry 'Anti-Christ' every time there's something we feel threatens our understanding of our religion.

PACK IT IN!  DER BRAINS!

Let's establish a couple of great key points to start our new journey of understanding from.

Science-types: You will never convince a believer that there is no God by showing him your new big equation that doesn't have a number for God and appears to work any way, not gonna happen so just take your broads, your strings and your Haricot Verts, pop them in a little bowl and stick them in your general purpose lab fridge.  What I'm saying here is chill your beans.

God Squad: Threatening an intelligent, analytical human being who seeks evidence, proof and logic with fire and torment from what sounds like some sort of fantasy from a fairy tail will probably lend you as much credibility as attempting to engage an Italian in conversation by just adding 'io' to the end of every word and wondering why they don't know what on earth you're on about and think you're a bit of a nob.

There is one simple fact that we all need to accommodate in our thinking as Chrsitians:  If and when science has crystal clarity and has finally figured out everything that it wanted to know, there will be no conflict, it's God's universe.  Truth is truth.  Unless you're worried that if they keep on discovering it'll turn out that God is not there after all?  Is that why we're feeling a little insecure?  Take heart, God will never disappear in a puff of logic, but we must always be prepared to accept who He really is, and not cling to what we hoped He would be or thought He was.  If you think you've got God figured out and need Him to just stay still, well that's a pretty dead faith isn't it? God, Scripture and Christ are cosmically awesome, and don't need to be pinned down by us.

There is another simple fact which we would all do well to accommodate as scientists and analytical thinkers:  There is a notion that where science leads, those of faith drag behind kicking and screaming against obvious truths.  This is false.  Numerous people throughout history believed or postulated that the earth was round, some were Christians, some lovers of science, but importantly there were always scientists who believed it was flat at the turning point of scientific understanding, and many more than would have thought it round, the majority at various points in history.  Fact.  The notion that the cutting edge of scientific discovery represents any sort of perpetual new era at any given time should be treated with much caution.  If history teaches us anything about science it's that we never know everything we think we know, we've never completely cracked it and there's always something else to discover.  Those not available to possibilities and maybes should not be scientists, but hard-line radical preachers.

To conclude this ridiculously brief blurt, consider this.  We have two apparently opposing points of view, one with creator and one without.  At the heart of the matter, there is no way in which either party fully understands that we, this universe and the incredible intelligent beings in it could possibly be here.  And yet here we are.  Creator or no Creator?  One is no more ridiculous than the other, both options are mind boggling, amazing,  phenomenal, ridiculous and requiring some level of wacky thinking to accommodate.

And if you're a Christian, then you at least should understand that at the end of it all science and religion are one and the same thing.  Not now sure, but in the end.

Personally, I'm a hard-core Bible bashing Jesus freak through and through, but as such I should be a lover of truth, whether it suits me or not, as should anybody saying the are a science type.