Originally Posted by
bcomp
Science and faith are like oil and water... one provides energy and power, the other provides relief and life. Since ancient ages, men have sought meaning and design, and still do, mind you. Empiricism construes structure, while intuition expounds purpose; one does not go without the other in human society. To ignore the question of origin and deny a higher cause for the sake of logical consistency is madness.
Though you may disagree viciously, I feel - as many others do - that one of the struggles we face in life is to find a balance between religion and science: between the objective and the subjective.
Religion is not an aging institution, but rather one that expands and evolves with time. Still, the majority of all people on earth practice religion in one form or another... and not as jihadists, bible-beaters, or general lunatics, but as normal human beings. If you ask me, atheism takes just as much faith as religion.
To walk through such an amazing world, full of intricate detail and delicate beauty, all performing in such perfect harmony and say it all began by accident is sheer lunacy. Do puzzles assemble themselves? Do skyscrappers form from volcanic rubble? Can a symphony be heard in the cacophonous crash of a firing cannon?
No.
There is a designer... religion is our human way of understanding that.
You will undoubtedly say the religious are "narrow-minded" and such (and some truly are) but the overly-scientific are on the other end of the spectrum. Belief and objectivity are not two football teams in a mad game of head-on-head competition, but rather two elemental ideologies that don't necessarily have to collide.
Religion and science can peacefully coincide. When you sloppily dismiss religion, you stoop to the same level as the scathing religious fundamentalists you hate.