HUMAN BEHAVIOR and attitudes from primitive times have been conditioned by a belief
in God and there is no getting away from religion. Voltaire, an agnostic, once
said that if there is no God, it would be necessary to invent one.
Science refers to the knowledge about the
structure and behavior of the natural and physical world, based on facts that
you can prove by experiments; whereas Religion is one of
the systems of faith that are based on the belief in the existence of a
particular god or gods. Can these two, one that completely relies on reason and
empiricism while the other on faith and sacredness, ever coexist??
Apologists
of religion say that religion begins where science ends. So if to one’s
thinking science never ends, there can be no existence of religion. On the
other hand, many scientists today believe that there may be more things in
heaven and earth than ever dreamt of in one’s philosophy. There are areas of
human experience that one’s science and philosophy cannot account for,
intrinsically beyond rational explanation. The best of those explained and
claimed by Uri Geller.
There are
moments in life of even the most confirmed atheist when one has a sudden access
to mystery of life. Even an atheist reacts to religion and hence an anti-religion
eventually becomes a religion itself!!
Abdul-Baha once
affirmed - “Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's
intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress.
It is not possible to fly with one wing alone!”
Should a man try to
fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of
superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would
also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
