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29th February 2012

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For all that we have learned, science has yet to answer the basic questions of why the universe exists and how it came into existence. That, and why it seems to be so absurdly logical. Billions of years of creation led to the existence of creatures so complex and intelligent that they question the act and nature of their existence… and Sagan believes that saying that the question has an answer in an intelligent creator is a disregard of evidence? What evidence? The universe itself may not be particularly conducive to life, but that says nothing of the incredible life-giving nature of the planet we happen to find ourselves on. Neither can science answer how life originated here in the first place. I accept that it’s completely rational to believe that science will ‘someday’ have an answer to those questions- even if that, too, is an act of faith. What seems completely ridiculous is to assume that thousands of generations of wisdom and billions of experiences relating to God can be disregarded completely on the grounds that some things can now be explained through science. 

For all that we have learned, science has yet to answer the basic questions of why the universe exists and how it came into existence. That, and why it seems to be so absurdly logical. Billions of years of creation led to the existence of creatures so complex and intelligent that they question the act and nature of their existence… and Sagan believes that saying that the question has an answer in an intelligent creator is a disregard of evidence? What evidence? The universe itself may not be particularly conducive to life, but that says nothing of the incredible life-giving nature of the planet we happen to find ourselves on. Neither can science answer how life originated here in the first place.

I accept that it’s completely rational to believe that science will ‘someday’ have an answer to those questions- even if that, too, is an act of faith. What seems completely ridiculous is to assume that thousands of generations of wisdom and billions of experiences relating to God can be disregarded completely on the grounds that some things can now be explained through science. 

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    freshman year Earth...Space Science, ah good times.
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    …just a dust mote. A fun one, but one of billions and billions and billions and billions…
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    willful disregard
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