Whatta mean Zombies aren't real
I am always amazed how some people believe in zombies, ghost, the paranormal, but then claim there can be no god or spirituality.
So, dare we talk about god? I'm sure it will offend someone...okay, let's do it.
Here are some scientists who believed in a higher power and how they reconciled those beliefs (thanks Huffington Post).
1. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Among his accomplishments (and getting him excommunicated from the Catholic Church) supporting the theory that the earth moved around the sun and not the other way around.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. He would not require use to deny sense and reason in physical matters which are set before our eyes and minds by direct experience or necessary demonstrations."
Just some old guy? Okay let's jump ahead a bit.
2. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). We've all been taught Darwin's theory of evolution.
"[T]he impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God; but whether this is an argument of real value, I have never been able to decide."
Still too far away from ourselves on the cutting edge of history?
3. Albert Einstein (1879-1955). A really, really famous physicist.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the Mysterious — the knowledge of the existence of something unfathomable to us, the manifestation of the most profound reason coupled with the most brilliant beauty. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, or who has a will of the kind we experience in ourselves. I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with the awareness of — and glimpse into — the marvelous construction of the existing world together with the steadfast determination to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature. This is the basics of cosmic religiosity, and it appears to me that the most important function of art and science is to awaken this feeling among the receptive and keep it alive.”
Let's approach the current day.
4. Carl Sagan (1934-1996). A studier of the univers and also the host of "Cosmos."
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.”
What? You want somebody who is still alive?
5. Francis Collins (1950). Director Nationl Institutes of Health.
"I have found there is a wonderful harmony in the complementary truths of science and faith. The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. God can be found in the cathedral or in the laboratory. By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship."
Do you think that God and science can coexist? Is understanding reality a battle of faith?
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