| Some see a conflict between science and religion. | | | | Religion can never answer the question, how. Once, |
| Religion has often been opposed to science, when | | | | the Catholic church had the earth at the center of |
| science contradicted some of it's beliefs. On the | | | | the universe, with hell below and heaven above. |
| other hand, some have said that since science cannot | | | | When Galileo discovered that it was just one of a |
| prove the existence of God, there should be no | | | | number of planets orbiting around the sun, the church |
| religion. The truth is there should be no conflict | | | | threatened him with excommunication or worse if he |
| because they operate in different areas and answer | | | | didn't recant. The church of course was wrong. |
| different questions. | | | | Religion gets into trouble, when it tries to say how |
| Science has to take creation as it finds it. It can | | | | things work in the natural world. Religion can only |
| never answer the question why. It can only answer | | | | answer the question why? Growing up Catholic I |
| the question how. Science involves experiment, | | | | remember an early question in religious education. |
| observation and theory. Where you can experiment, | | | | Why did God make me? The answer was God made |
| you do. Chemistry and physics are two scientific | | | | me to know him, to love him and to be with him |
| fields where you can perform experiments. | | | | forever in heaven. Could that be proven? Could it |
| Astronomy is a science where observation is the only | | | | even be proven that God made me. No! That like all |
| method. Once scientist have conducted their | | | | religious dogma has to be accepted on faith. Some |
| experiments or done their observations, they try to | | | | scientist might say that since none of it can be |
| form hypothesis and eventually theories. There are | | | | scientifically proven, why believe anything. But there |
| religious groups that find the theory of evolution a | | | | is a creation here. The principle by which it works has |
| threat. it's only a theory, they say. What they don't | | | | always been. Scientist seek to discover how it works. |
| understand is that all scientific truth is theory. Newton | | | | They use what they learn to create many wonders. |
| discovered the theories of motion. They proved to | | | | But they can only create, if they follow natures rules. |
| be true and are used by engineers and scientist | | | | But who or what made it like it is? Who or what |
| everyday. You may have heard them called Newton's | | | | made the rules? Why are we here? Why is anything |
| laws of motion. But they should have been called | | | | here? Science cannot answer that. That has to be |
| Newton's theories because Einstein's theory of | | | | left to religion or philosophy. As humans we seek for |
| relativity showed that though they worked well here | | | | knowledge to know our world and how it works but |
| on earth in normal circumstances, they were not the | | | | we also seem to need faith. As long as we are |
| whole truth. The theory of evolution is the same. It's | | | | always open the truth and not dogmatic all will be |
| a scientific theory that, though true as far as it goes, | | | | well. |
| is subject to revision as new facts emerge. | | | | |