Friday 5 June 2020

The Interdependence of Science and Religion


It has been centuries since the religion and science have been famed century-old rivals. The world has witnessed the raging war since those days when Galileo was tried publicly for publishing the proof of Copernicus’ heliocentric theory as opposed to Geocentric Theory. Science explained the origin of the Universe through the Big Bang theory but the religion has always questioned the birth of the infinitely dense singularity at t=0 which has always been a qualm of the never-ending debate revolving around the existence of the God. The Big Bang theory is only valid when it is considered somewhere after t=0. Nobody in this world knows about what happened at t=0. And that’s where religion stepped in and proclaimed that it was the God who created the singularity which exploded and became the inception of the Universe. Now, it is a universally known fact that science is unearthing logical explanations to the most bewildering topics of which religion has only one justification that it has been the creation of the supreme power.
What is religion? Religion was created by humans to explain the unanswerable, complicated questions. It is in itself like a language, which appears in a variety but all religions have the same meaning. Ultimately, the religion leads to the path of finding the motive of life which, the God has assigned to the sapiens.
Science in itself is a religion, a language of the scientists who find plausible theories to the unexplained situations of life. But both science and religion need to understand that, yes, there is an unknown power present in the Universe but God is not someone who sits in heaven and punishes the mortals who do not abide by the principles of their sworn religion. God is that highly responsive positive energy which is present in the nucleus of every atom. It is famously quoted by Dan Brown that religion is flawed because man is flawed, which stands true to its roots as man has moulded the religion to suit his own needs. Also, it is true that scientific inventions do not come with a book of moral conduct and hence the religion is needed to balance that out. As Albert Einstein quoted "Science without Religion is lame, Religion without Science is blind." Hence, this is the ultimate truth that both science and religion are interdependent in the quest of finding the supreme power and they will always be at par with each other.

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