Science and religion

Today is the 2nd Sunday of Easter. A very highly educated priest in the field on theology and philosophy particularly (line of masters and doctorates also author of few books) came and celebrated mass here in KT. (was here for holidays).
Well he gave a wonderful mass which is not always common and also a beautiful sermon altogether.
According to the readings of this Sunday he picked out 2 points which we need to ponder upon. One is reason and rationality/faith and spirituality which we use to believe in something. The other is simply law and love.
St Thomas a.k.a doubting Thomas was right in using his rationality and reason wanting to believe in Christ. - see to believe. However he fell aback to realize to believe also needs faith and spirituality. Here Jesus came say then - Happy are those who see and believe, and those who don't see yet believe. My friend and i few days ago were discussing on how and why some people (jews) who saw Jesus and his acts did not believe in him then, now in this modern world where the concepts of science and facts, see to believe thoughts, many believe in Chirst!!! Irony??
Now what as this got to do with science? Later after mass, Fr Stephen, i don't know co-incidentally or not, he was requested to give a talk for the students at the formation house and the title was science and religion. Well he did not make any connections with today's readings during the talk though. I integrated it.
Back in - nature automatically shows the glory of God and science is to understand nature. While we learn to understand nature we will eventually begin to realize the wonder of an unknown order controlling this universe. Some superior being in whatever form which i believe humans can never eventually comprehend specifically.
Many famous science Laureates like Einstein, Newton etc do believe in God although not of a specific God (making them not an atheist ok!!...)and are more spiritual then those who believe in a specific God.
Behind every door in science there is God (Angels and Demons - Dan Brown). Simple analogies Fr Stephen gave. If we arrange all the molecule in 1 liter of water we can go the moon and come back 7 times!!!!!!!!!!. Can u comprehend that?? here is another. In an atom there are many spaces - spaces between electrons and the nucleus. In the nucleus between the protons and neutrons and other subatomic particles. If this is the case why cant we put our hand through the table?? The inability to do so is because of the gazillion number of atoms so closely packed it is strong enough, also has enough energy to hold themselves together. Another - How a brain works; conscious and a soul and feeling??
So there are many things which is uncomprehending by science even in the theory of evolution which they got everything right except the missing parts in it and yet some still believe and that needs faith.
The bible does not give much details of these uncomprehandble stuff but it does mention the wonders of it. (psalm ... - forgot which :-P).

A question was posed to him - does scientist believe in the bible - answer is depends on which interpretation. The bible can be interpreted literally (solar Scriptura - also like how the Muslims take their Quran) or by reality which we Catholics don't. If taken literally then in the book of genesis of cos the scientist wont believe but in reality of which i think is the order of creation(process) then is believable. How can there be life without water, air and light (oklah maybe not light). Water air and land and light needs to come first right? Takkan u want man to be created 1st??

Another of cos comes the theory of evolution - according to him there are truths in this theory but there are many missing elements in it which is not explained by Darwin for simply the theory cannot meet the concept of evolution. Furthermore he says the church is sort of becoming soft in this theory although not accepting it fully. Perhaps God as given a single cell the various capabilities to mature and specialize into later. Time was taken and step by step each capability of this single cell has evolved into the world we see today.

The of cos comes cloning etc etc - it is not only the matter of playing God which is in dispute but the exploitation and de-dignifying of the usage of clones the church is against. we may be able to create a clone human but will it have a soul, feeling and those uncomprehandable stuff which science cannot explain of human biology? Probably a living robot will be made. Even that if it is made it comes the issue of ethics - is it still human? if yes - how can we exploit them later for organs etc etc.

It is very interesting. Fusion of science and God - spirituality. Facts and faith.

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Law and love - God gave us law because he loves us. Analogy - A child runs to the mother and kisses her and says u are the best mummy in the world and the rest are dummies. The mother puts her child down and says, ' yeah yeah...u say like that but never listen to me'. The part : listen to me = law. So what is the point to love but u don't listen nor follow. What and where is your love and devotion and loyalty is?? 'No need to follow the law but i still love u'. Hypocrisy? Is it like lets make fired kueh teiow but with no kueh tieow.
how do we show love then? Materials? How long would it last? It may buy u if u are cheap. But look at the difference made and compare it - the response - if u follow the law, rules and listen to them to show your love and giving materials. Go deep to see the response and not only see the superficial. This i believe is in any relationship among humans.

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done for the day