For the most part, it is very hard to dispute the scientific theories. Until you look at the utter complexity of the world and the chance involved in one planet being exactly the right distance from the sun to have formed life. For it to be the right temperature, have the right combination of chemicals. For it to spontaneously come to life and create self-aware human beings who can think in so many different ways and do so many things. We are head and shoulders above any other form of life on this planet in terms of intelligence and thought and our knowledge of this world is second only to God's and the angel's.
I think that the reason people want to ignore all this is because it becomes easier to think 'look how special we are', and to credit ourselves for our own existence. When really, you know in the back of your mind somewhere, as soon as you sit down alone, that there is a force out there. That there is a life after death and that there is a heaven. And even as a child you know this, somehow. But along the way, choose to ignore it.
But one thing I would ask anyone who is wondering about the separate theories of religion and science to do, is to ask yourself how much of it can co exist? Look at how the inside of an atom behaves for instance, really research it.
For the most part it makes little sense even to scientists, How the inside of an atom works, how it has mass. How it can contain so much energy yet be so small. There are only theories, namely the 'God particle' or Higgs Boson theory. It really will make a Christian more willing to believe that science can co exist with religion because God created it all, and an atheist believe it is all just too complex to be a game of chance.
There is a bible passage that says something like (not exactly, because I can't remember the verse number or book), but it's something like 'All the evidence of God was before them. All the wonder of the world, but they refused to believe it'. Don't quote me because that is not the exact way it is worded, but that's how I viewed it. And it made me think of all the people who see the absolute wonder of the world. Who know all the science behind things and study all this, yet still can be so blind as to think it just happened by chance. How could something so complex and so perfectly structured, just happen?
So much of this world intertwines and works in such a perfect way that it is almost impossible for me to think that it just happened. Because then that begs the question; What are we even here for? Why have we been given so much, but know so little? What is our purpose? Why are we the only things on earth who can think? Who can question? Who can communicate and build and live? Experience joy, sadness, anger, frustration and all the things that come with being a human? And when you say to yourself 'God isn't real', the only thing you are left with is more questions than answers.
Then where do you go?
I think that the reason people want to ignore all this is because it becomes easier to think 'look how special we are', and to credit ourselves for our own existence. When really, you know in the back of your mind somewhere, as soon as you sit down alone, that there is a force out there. That there is a life after death and that there is a heaven. And even as a child you know this, somehow. But along the way, choose to ignore it.
But one thing I would ask anyone who is wondering about the separate theories of religion and science to do, is to ask yourself how much of it can co exist? Look at how the inside of an atom behaves for instance, really research it.
For the most part it makes little sense even to scientists, How the inside of an atom works, how it has mass. How it can contain so much energy yet be so small. There are only theories, namely the 'God particle' or Higgs Boson theory. It really will make a Christian more willing to believe that science can co exist with religion because God created it all, and an atheist believe it is all just too complex to be a game of chance.
There is a bible passage that says something like (not exactly, because I can't remember the verse number or book), but it's something like 'All the evidence of God was before them. All the wonder of the world, but they refused to believe it'. Don't quote me because that is not the exact way it is worded, but that's how I viewed it. And it made me think of all the people who see the absolute wonder of the world. Who know all the science behind things and study all this, yet still can be so blind as to think it just happened by chance. How could something so complex and so perfectly structured, just happen?
So much of this world intertwines and works in such a perfect way that it is almost impossible for me to think that it just happened. Because then that begs the question; What are we even here for? Why have we been given so much, but know so little? What is our purpose? Why are we the only things on earth who can think? Who can question? Who can communicate and build and live? Experience joy, sadness, anger, frustration and all the things that come with being a human? And when you say to yourself 'God isn't real', the only thing you are left with is more questions than answers.
Then where do you go?
