Friday, September 3, 2010

Science and Religion

There appeared an article about a new book asking whether God is the real true Creator of the universe. Before I go any further let it be known that I do think God is the one who gave birth to the universe and this same God is the one who maintains it.
It is unfortunate that this book's statement is addressed again. I had assumed (a very dangerous supposition indeed) that the subject had been laid to rest with the understanding that there are two camps so strongly convinced of their standpoints that my camp applied the Jesus' principle of wishing the other party well and let it go at that.
Undoubtedly the co-author of the book is one of the highest regarded scientists named Stephen Hawkings and so his standpoint carries weight in the scientific community. But there is the other party whose opinion I found being vindicated in more or less popular vein by a, for me, most interesting series of programs shown on the Science Channel with the title of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman as the emcee. In one of its hour-long programs a scientist remarks that as science advances in knowledge about the universe science continues to arrive at places where no progress seems to be possible. This scientist states as his belief that here science has reached the borderline of the "house of God" (my choice of words) and at this point entry will never be permitted. As a further point in this story it was mentioned that this scientist (whose name I do not remember) said there were many in the scientific community who thought like him.
And with that I rest my case.

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