Before reading this blog, please note that this is only my opinion (i.e: just what i think) - and that I am neither a highly devoted disciple of religion nor a dedicated scientist. I am expecting some disagreement from people, and I will respect them.
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There are people who believes so much in science, and they instantly rejects some ideas of religion that seems to conflict scientific facts.
There are people who belives so much in religion, and they instantly rejects some ideas of science that seems to conflict religious belief.
(I could've said vice versa, but what the heck...)
You want to ask me which side I'm in? Well.
Neither.
In fact, i'm in a side which opposes those two ideas. I don't believe that religion opposes science and vice versa (finally).
As a person who grew up with a MSc. Father, an BSc. MBA mother, and a highly religious grandmother, I have been introduced to religion, theology, science and engineering ever since I was a little kid. It was my mom who gave me a lot of knowledge about science - and I've been interested in a lot of things normally small kids won't give a fart about. Things like rocketry, time-travel, the universe and stuffs.
But at the same time, my grandma and my dad gave me religious teaching and sometimes read me the Koran (since we're Muslim...oh and of course it's translation, I can't speak Arabic). So I am quite aware about God, angels, demons, prophet. I might have skipped some prayers (LOL my friends at Uni will definitely laugh about this when I say FEW), but I do believe in my religion a lot.
As I grew up, I studied science in more depth - and studied about evolution in more depth (as in studying about genetics, adaptation, and mutation as opposed of just knowing monkeys turned into human). At the same time, my tajweed (the skill of reading the Koran) tutor told me that that the theory of evolution of darwin doesn't make sense since it would mean that Adam, the first human, father of all man, is a monkey.
Evolution makes a lot of sense to me, but that fact about Adam makes me curious. Then when I heard about some people telling about the "missing link" theory...I started thinking that...maybe monkeys did evolve into those human looking primates - Homo Erectus, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis - but that's it...and when these creatures starts to extinct somehow for unknown reason, Adam descended to Earth. That makes sense.
That's when I began to think that science and religion were not really opposing each other, sometimes they seem as if, but they really isn't.
Other thing is the fact that the Koran told human were made of earth. I mean..what the heck...earth? I don't look like any soil. But really, after a while thinking about it...it's really telling us the truth. Human is a carbon based organism, and along came calcium in the bones and other minerals composed inside our body. Guess what? Those are also the compositions of soil! So it wasn't saying that soil were made into human...but rather that human and soil were composed of the same compounds and chemicals!
This comes to me thinking about how other Koranic (and Biblical at the same time) creatures might be explained by the same logic as well. Angels were said to made of light...and that is very consistent with their description of their ability of changing their form into anything they wish, and the fact that they can move godspeed. They can change how they look because they can manipulate light - which is what our eyes could sense when we try seeing things. The fact that they can move really quick is because light is capable of moving so quickly is because light travels at 3 x 10^6 m/s.
This whole thing makes me believe that those hardliner religious people should realize that He himself were the one that defines the Laws of Science, and those scientists should realize that He works at a logic that human may haven't, if not never will, understand.
These are some stuffs I thought about that might be true, but is not verified or clarified by both science nor religion:
- Soul is a distinct type of energy which the body needs to start working. The body might have some sort of "reactor" hidden somewhere inside that uses this "energy" to cause body mechanisms to work. However this "reactor" functions is only to turn on the organs, and these other part of body cannot convert the "energy" into work - which is why we still need to take foods and other source of energy. I think this "reactor" might be somewhere in the brain.
- Some scientists argue that God can't exist because if he creates the universe...who created God in the first place? He can't just exist like that. Some more religious people argue that if that is so, who would create this universe? Thus creating a looping argument.
God might be living beyond the realm of space-time where human might not understand what's happening there. So it is really not a place to argue about it for we haven't gotten our knowledge there yet.
It's funny how people said science have proven God doesn't exist, for ironically religion has verified us that science is correct. The more I studied about Science, the more I believe that God really exists.
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There are people who believes so much in science, and they instantly rejects some ideas of religion that seems to conflict scientific facts.
There are people who belives so much in religion, and they instantly rejects some ideas of science that seems to conflict religious belief.
(I could've said vice versa, but what the heck...)
You want to ask me which side I'm in? Well.
Neither.
In fact, i'm in a side which opposes those two ideas. I don't believe that religion opposes science and vice versa (finally).
As a person who grew up with a MSc. Father, an BSc. MBA mother, and a highly religious grandmother, I have been introduced to religion, theology, science and engineering ever since I was a little kid. It was my mom who gave me a lot of knowledge about science - and I've been interested in a lot of things normally small kids won't give a fart about. Things like rocketry, time-travel, the universe and stuffs.
But at the same time, my grandma and my dad gave me religious teaching and sometimes read me the Koran (since we're Muslim...oh and of course it's translation, I can't speak Arabic). So I am quite aware about God, angels, demons, prophet. I might have skipped some prayers (LOL my friends at Uni will definitely laugh about this when I say FEW), but I do believe in my religion a lot.
As I grew up, I studied science in more depth - and studied about evolution in more depth (as in studying about genetics, adaptation, and mutation as opposed of just knowing monkeys turned into human). At the same time, my tajweed (the skill of reading the Koran) tutor told me that that the theory of evolution of darwin doesn't make sense since it would mean that Adam, the first human, father of all man, is a monkey.
Evolution makes a lot of sense to me, but that fact about Adam makes me curious. Then when I heard about some people telling about the "missing link" theory...I started thinking that...maybe monkeys did evolve into those human looking primates - Homo Erectus, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis - but that's it...and when these creatures starts to extinct somehow for unknown reason, Adam descended to Earth. That makes sense.
That's when I began to think that science and religion were not really opposing each other, sometimes they seem as if, but they really isn't.
Other thing is the fact that the Koran told human were made of earth. I mean..what the heck...earth? I don't look like any soil. But really, after a while thinking about it...it's really telling us the truth. Human is a carbon based organism, and along came calcium in the bones and other minerals composed inside our body. Guess what? Those are also the compositions of soil! So it wasn't saying that soil were made into human...but rather that human and soil were composed of the same compounds and chemicals!
This comes to me thinking about how other Koranic (and Biblical at the same time) creatures might be explained by the same logic as well. Angels were said to made of light...and that is very consistent with their description of their ability of changing their form into anything they wish, and the fact that they can move godspeed. They can change how they look because they can manipulate light - which is what our eyes could sense when we try seeing things. The fact that they can move really quick is because light is capable of moving so quickly is because light travels at 3 x 10^6 m/s.
This whole thing makes me believe that those hardliner religious people should realize that He himself were the one that defines the Laws of Science, and those scientists should realize that He works at a logic that human may haven't, if not never will, understand.
These are some stuffs I thought about that might be true, but is not verified or clarified by both science nor religion:
- Soul is a distinct type of energy which the body needs to start working. The body might have some sort of "reactor" hidden somewhere inside that uses this "energy" to cause body mechanisms to work. However this "reactor" functions is only to turn on the organs, and these other part of body cannot convert the "energy" into work - which is why we still need to take foods and other source of energy. I think this "reactor" might be somewhere in the brain.
- Some scientists argue that God can't exist because if he creates the universe...who created God in the first place? He can't just exist like that. Some more religious people argue that if that is so, who would create this universe? Thus creating a looping argument.
God might be living beyond the realm of space-time where human might not understand what's happening there. So it is really not a place to argue about it for we haven't gotten our knowledge there yet.
It's funny how people said science have proven God doesn't exist, for ironically religion has verified us that science is correct. The more I studied about Science, the more I believe that God really exists.
3 comments:
so are u declaring yourself as an agnostic or what? :P
good post. i like the part about the angels i have never thought of it that way.
those homo sapiens may have eisted but clearly we are not relate to them because nabi adam had intellect that those creatures did not have. like adam could converse with God, pray, know right and wrong, teach his family, and the most obvious one, feeling shame after eating the fruit.
but, when people think that adam was a fuly developed human like us, that's clearly wrong right?
people back then lived in a different climate and environment so it would be wrong to say he was exactly like us, but he was NOT related to those homo sapiens thanks
eh salah i meant homo erectus . cos apparently we're homo sapiens? ah i'm confused.
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