Have A Little Faith 02

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Mitch Albom:

We live in a world where your genes can be mapped, where your cells can be copied, where your face can be altered. Heck, with surgery, you can go from being a man to being a woman. We have science to tell us of the earth's creation; rocket probes explore the universe. The sun is no longer a mystery. And the moon which people used to worship? We brought some of it home in a pouch right?

So why, in such a place, where the once-great mysteries have been solved, does anyone still believe in God or Jesus or Allah or a Supreme Being of any kind? Haven't we outgrown it? Isn't it like Pinocchio, the puppet? When he found he could move without his strings, did he still look the same way at Geppetto?

The Reb:

If you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that i must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search.

And no matter how far they try to go the other way - to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty - at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When life comes to an end? When you come to the end, that's where God begins.

Thoughts:

The seemingly irreconcilable differences between Science and Religion. The opposites of Logic and Faith. Sometime the differences are being highlighted so much that any similarity or compatibility is overlooked. For one, there is actually a science and research department in the Vatican. In there, a pastor is also a scientist. Logic research to uncover mysteries of the universe does not mean that faith needs to be forsaken.