I'M JUST SAYING...

The argument between Science and Religion is a war between two groups with almost exactly the same weapons and strategy.

You have to believe the Word Of God. We know it’s the Word Of God because it says so, right in there. We don’t have to believe what we see if it disagrees with the Word Of God. “But the Bible makes no sense,” you say? It doesn’t have to make sense, you just have to have faith. And if you don’t have faith, you will burn forever in hell. Questions mean your faith is lacking…and yet “Faith is a gift, not of works, lest any man should boast.” If you don't have the gift...what can your questions hurt?

Then there’s science. You have to believe what fancy math tells us, and scientists have to interpret for you. And if they discover something new in the math (or discover a new math), you have to change your belief to their new interpretation. But if you disagree with them, you have to learn their maths and languages and present your case as one of them, even though they make it very difficult to join the club. But if you don’t, or don’t believe them, you are simply and self-evidently stupid.

Both wrong. If you are living as you should, you have no need to follow either one. Church, as George Carlin once said, is a place where we go on Sunday to outdress each other. We give money to the church for its upkeep and for the poor. I’ve been the poor. My church brought over a box of canned goods no one else wanted on Thanksgiving. Apparently the only giving thanks expected was thankfulness that we took away these horrible foods. Yet the Catholic Church is not only a nation, it’s the richest nation on earth. So there must be no more poor, right? And don’t think science doesn’t get your money, too – they’re just a little more underhanded about it.

Science is mainly something that esoteric wizards do on computers, the results of which we have to take on faith, because we can’t possibly understand their reasoning or research. It may lead to better technology, but here’s a secret:

Being human has not changed. Good behavior hasn’t changed, and neither has bad behavior. The need for food, water, shelter, and love haven’t changed. Really, nothing important has changed.

In John 5: Yeshua heals a man who’s been there 38 years but never makes it to the healing water in time. He wasted 38 years waiting for a miracle! Whether or not he got one seems irrelevant, since his life is half gone over it. You may say he got his miracle, but what if he’d been born just 38 years later? No miracle, just torment, presumably life-long.

In medicine, it may take going to 38 doctors before you find one who will do the simplest thing; LISTEN. And it’s up to you to manage to see 38 doctors – they won’t do a thing to help. At last, it may be that if they listen, there is help available. But what if you can’t afford it? (After all, you’re paying bills to 38 doctors at the time!) And you’ve heard that pharmaceutical companies will help those who can’t afford their medicine – and it may even be true. Personally, I ran out of gumption after filling out the 38th form! Even if you navigate this whole system successfully, what they actually offer may be $5.00 off on a bottle of $350.00 medicine. Sorry, just a personal pet peeve.

In science, they tell us the universe is infinite, then turn around and try to figure out what shape it is. If it’s infinite, it can’t have shape, can it?

That 96% of the universe is missing shouldn’t be a great surprise, considering how narrow our perceptions are. Vision, hearing, even touch – we perceive in a very narrow band. The fact that we can mechanically stretch this a bit does not for one moment mean we can now perceive everything. And what is this “dark matter” and “dark energy?” If science doesn’t know, then aren’t we free to believe it’s spiritual effluvia of some kind? This is a hole big enough to drive a planet through. I’m just saying.