Science Vs. Religion --Draft 1

Science vs. Religion

By: Tessa Fry

Science and religion are both about belief, just belief in different things. Science has hard, sufficient proof to back up its reasons and beliefs, making it easier to believe in.

Science is the belief in facts and the acceptance of reason. Science shows its believers every day why they can, and do believe in science. Religion on the other hand is about believing in the unknown. I personally believe in both science and religion, however, science by far, is the easiest thing for me to believe in.

Science has shown us that its theories are correct. When I would go to church, the preacher would tell me that God created everything in his image and that everything is exactly how He created it. However, when my science teacher told me about Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, it had proof to back it up. My teacher showed me pictures and articles about how a dinosaur that once had scales then had feathers years later. These, and other findings, could prove to me that Darwin’s Theory was correct and that evolution really does exist.

When the preacher told me that God has created everything exactly how he wanted to, my mind went instantly to our everyday diseases. If God wants his people to suffer from diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, H1N1, Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, dementia, Parkinson’s, ect., then do we really want God to be the one we believe in. Science has medicine that can prevent, cure, and even hold off many of these diseases. Heart disease has also been scientifically proven to be passed down genetically from family member to family member; does God really want this? I find it harder to believe that our God has given us these diseases that cause so much pain and suffering, than the fact that science can treat and cure many of these diseases that God has created.

If religion is true, then the reason we have psychopaths is because the Devil has come up from Hell and corrupted the mind of those people. Science has another explanation. Studies have been conducted on psychopathic killers and other everyday individuals to find out why they do the things that they do.  “The definition of a psychopath is: someone who is born without the gene that creates “conscience,” and “compassion”. A fact about psychopaths is that one in every 25 people born into this world will be born psychopaths. Some examples of psychopaths are: Tony Blair, The Queen and the Royal Family, The Bushes, The Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Angela Kerkel (German Chancellor), and The Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch are all psychopaths by definition.”[1] This is a statement of fact that has been proven over and over again in the scientific community. On the other hand, no one can actually prove that there is a Devil and a Hell, or even if there is a God and a Heaven.

Another very controversial topic is of science trying to discover whether biblical stories are truth or fiction. One of the more popular stories in the Bible is the story of Noah and his arc. The story goes that God told Noah to build an enormous wooden boat and bring onboard, one male and one female of every animal species. Then God made it rain for forty days and forty nights, flooding the entire earth with water, swallowing up all the wicked in the world. Scientists have discovered however, that this story could possible be entirely false. “Calling it the “Noah’s Flood Hypothesis,” the geologist theorized that water form melting ice caps overwhelmed the Mediterranean Sea, breaking through the Bosporus Strait to the Black Se with Herculean force and flooding more that 60, 000 square miles (96, 560 kilometres) of land. In 2007, other researchers found evidence that a melting ice cap form Greenland boosted global sea levels 4.5 feet (1.4 meters) between 8740 B.C. and 8160 B.C., causing people to migrate toward Europe to escape flooding in the same region.”[2] This theory is not so unbelievable. Even in today’s world we have flooding that happens in numerous areas over the world, sometimes with disastrous results.  We have also seen proof about ice caps melting. For example, here in Canada we have the Columbian Ice Fields “located on the boundary of Banff and Jasper National Parks. One of the larges accumulations of ice and snow south of the Arctic Circle, it covers an area of nearly 325 square kilometres, sometimes reaching a depth of 300-360 meters.“[3] “The glacier is shrinking by 30 percent every 100 years. At this rate it will be gone in 300 years.”[4] This shows us that it is not entirely impossible that the water form melting ice caps could have overwhelmed the Mediterranean Sea.

Overall science and religion are both about belief, just belief in different things. Science is the belief in facts and the acceptance of reason. Religion on the other hand is about believing in the unknown. Science has hard, sufficient proof to back up its reasons and beliefs, making it easier to believe in. As were religion is based on a book and a belief in something they do not know is true. I believe in both these things, however science really is easier to believe in and I like to be able to believe in the truth.