Science or Religion

How are you doing today, people?

Bored?

What do you have to be bored about?

Hey, come on lets get our hands over this newspaper before anyone tries and steal it from my doorstep!!!

Thanks.

Hey! Look at what this letter to the editor says.

And then tell me what’s wrong with it.

“…intelligent design cannot be taught in our elementary schools because it is a religious concept. And religion is the opposite of science.”

Mmmm, no. It’s this part about religion being the opposite of science.

First of all, people don’t even know what the word means.

“Opposite” means two things that are contrary to each other. Why, there are few things so much alike as science and religion.

Science grew out of religion for heaven’s sake!

When the earliest civilization was still cradling and suckling on nature's breasts, Paganism and then Hinduism flagmarched towards the future, propagating the cause of Science and Humanity. Even in the “Dark Ages”, the Christian Faith, only a few generations old, was struggling to keep the peoples of Europe from slipping into complete anarchy and starvation.

This new religion had something really different going for it. It believed that all of reality was operating in accordance with a Natural Law set forth by a single, omnipotent God.

So what?

So this means that we could try to find out what that natural law was. In fact, it was a spiritually good thing to go try to do.

Crops could be better. We could keep time better. New machines could help people survive and thrive.

So at the very root of both science and religion lies a simple article of faith.

Yeah, OK. Here’s the comics section. Now be quite a minute while I read these other letters to the editor.