The whole world has numerous different faiths that it believes in... some more commonly voiced in society, others not as well known. And for some people of the world, there is no faith... this does not mean they don't have faith in the human race, but instead choose to believe that there is no higher power... and for some of us, we find ourselves in a middle ground of seeing all sides, but not choosing to follow one over the other.
Yes, I am ousting myself into this category of nonbeliever believers. Here's how I see it... the ultimate purpose of religion is to grant some form of purpose to our existence and explain why our existence is the way it is. Whereas science is just to explain how things came to be and how they make balance out the natural law of the universe. They are both the same thing basically, but with completely different approaches.
Here's my theory.... you can never get rid of religion, but religion needs to evolve... as do all things. You may say, "but that's not how religion works!" and I say to you, nay. Look at how far religion has already evolved from it's inception.... and yes, believe it or not people, religions are born, they were not there at the beginning. But look at the journey churches have followed, doesn't matter the religion... there are things today that are tolerated by religion that hundreds of years ago you would have had your head taken off for! Sure some of these changes have to do with society... but for a long time society was highly influenced by religion, so in a way religion prompted the changes! That aside though, if religion has been able to follow society thus far through it's existence, then it should be able to do it for the remainder of it's course, be it 20 years or 50,000 or more! What do I speak of? I'm talking about a true integration with science... I'm not saying science should just up and agree with men splitting oceans with the wave of a staff, or storms of frogs and lotus, etc... I'm saying science should take an approach by looking at the questions that religions strive to answer... and allow science to find out how and why something is the way it is.... now I know, of all questions, there is one that will stand above all else, and this is the one question I would prefer stay in religion's ball park... that question is, the Meaning of Life. Science can never truly answer this, and I can only speculate... so I think leaving that to the faith and belief of each individual person is most important for our species to survive and continue on.
I think this because essentially I feel knowing would upset people... I don't think there is any big plan to life other than to survive... keep a species alive... darwin's theory, the food chain, etc... the meaning of life is to remain alive. Now if we are to look at the common grounds between life and science on this topic, we will find only one similarity... death. Both agree that death is a part of life... and since the two opposing sides can thus far only agree on one thing, that we all die... than one could conclude that technically, the meaning of life is to die. And I'll go one step further, what do I think the meaning of life is? I think the meaning of life is what you do in your life before you die... which fits in perfectly with what I was saying about survival of the species. What people do in their lives, reflects their desires to continue something and leave a legacy of sorts, for some this is a direct legacy tied to their names... for others this is the legacy of keeping life going for future generations.
I leave you with a quote that my boss's son once said when he was 3 years old...
"Everything is important... nobody know's this but me, but everything is important."
Has nothing to do with what I was talking about, but thought it was very mature and insightful for a 3 year old. For as my boss pointed out, he's right...everything is important in it's own way, because something is always important to someone, just cause it isn't to you doesn't mean it isn't to the person next to you.
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