Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Science Vs Religion.
The fact that this topic is always so hotly debated on the internet is very telling. It's telling because it's important that we discuss it.
I love science. It is a quest for knowledge and understanding. I also love it because it's also plain fucking interesting. I also love religion, though I myself am not religious.
The human time line isn't even a spec on the Earths time line. The Earths time line isn't even a spec on the galaxies time line. And if you point Hubble into empty space it shows us vast galaxies so far away that what we see isn't even there anymore because the light took so long to get to us in the first place. Ghosts of a billion years past.
Yet, in all this vastness of the universe exists this strange anomaly of life. Not just that, but life that can question the origin of life itself. We can do lots of things, we can discover, create, design, feel, kill, land on the mood. Born from the animals. We're still just animals though. And any animal will tell you, that your mission is to survive, and that's it. You have to survive. Survival in its essence will push humanity to do and achieve more in our future than all the achievements in our entire human history combined. For starters, our stay on this planet is very finite.
But for us, to survive isn't the only thing that drives us. To understand what happens after we die drives us further. But we will never know that. Ever. The only way to find out what happens when you die is to die. And that's where you take a massive leap of faith that no science can ever prove or disprove. No religion will ever have the right answer. You or anyone you know can die at any moment for any reason. The question on everyones lips is what happens and what does that mean in the grander scheme.
Maybe it means nothing, maybe it means everything. Or maybe we should just worry about what's important here and now.
Science or Religion, they help us answer deeper questions we all ask. And sometimes, neither help at all. Actually, I'd venture to say that we all feel and ask things that can only be answered by ourselves, for ourselves.
One day I'll die, one day we'll all die. One day the Earth, Sun, galaxy, the universe, will all die. What do we mean then?
Maybe eastern philosophy is on the mark, enjoy the futility of it all and smile
