On Science

I promised myself that before my story got published (next week) I'd expound some of my views on science and religion. I feel like I need to explain myself. If not to anyone else, than at least to myself.

My father and brother are both scientists. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit such an organized methodical mind, or I probably would have tried to be a scientist too. To use a rational method of discovering to truth. What could be better? This curiosity, this desire to know how we relate to this world. That's God's gift. I think science is wonderful. Think of all the miracles that now surround us on a daily basis because of science.

Is science the search for ultimate truth? I don't really think so. I think it's a search for how thing happen, but when it comes to real truth, the more subjective question is why? Science doesn't really answer that.

Science isn't perfect. There's always interpretation involved and people with agendas are very good at manipulating science to muddy the issues. Science does get things wrong, but over time, it usually gets things right. Meaningful understandings of how can be determined by facts. I believe that there are too many people using the planet's resources too quickly. I also believe in little things called atoms and even tinier things I can't name with properties that govern the Universe. And I believe that the theory of evolution is a fundamental principle of biologic science these days.

It saddens me when people choose not to reconcile religion the "why", with the "how" of science. When people say science can not be true, because it literally conflicts with the Bible. I think these people do a disservice to science because they don't understand it, but they do an even greater disservice to religion. As the evidence continues to pile up, religion starts to lose a credibility they should not be trying to stake out anyway. It allows people like my father and my brother to dismiss religion out of hand when people try and say dinosaurs bones are either not that old or simply a test of faith.

Okay, enough for the ramble for now. I'll try and get more into faith next time.