Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Science is not a rival to religion


“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
Martin Luther King Jr. made those remarks. We often hear debates centered around "science vs. religion". I think we are missing the boat. Just to keep it simple, I believe science goes a long way to tell us the only explanation for this world is a being greater than ourselves.

We read in Psalm 19:
The heavens declare the glory of God,
    and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours out speech,
    and night to night reveals knowledge.
That leads me to the following quote from Evelyn Underhill:


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