We all agree that the universe we live in has been intelligently planned. We take the help of science as well as religion to explain the same. Science, like religion, requires faith. We make so many assumptions to explain various phenomena in nature. We believe that the laws of physics are reliable—that’s a kind of faith. We set up experiments that can test and verify these laws.
Science attempts to understand how the universe works. Religion attempts to understand the purpose and meaning of the universe. Science has many inconsistencies. Even the general theories of relativity and quantum mechanics are not consistent with each other. Yet we think each one of them is correct. So too in religion; science does not allow free will like religion.
Consider the subject of revelation. It is part of the history of religion. But there are revelations in science too, except that a revelation ‘is not called a revelation, but it is called an idea, a flash of genius, a new invention’.
The more we understand about science and religion, the greater is the possibility of bringing the two streams of thoughts closer together for the better understanding of the universe.
“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.” – Albert Einstein
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