i always see religion and science as two siblings helping each other out to get to the same end. it maybe is not the perfect analogy to describe their relationship as how i see it, but i think it’s close enough. humans are so divided into believing religion and believing science they forget that they actually can believe in both.
there are still some things that science can’t prove, and for that there’s religion. human created religion to fill the void within them, which i assume the void got something to do with things human finds no explanation for it. with the passing of time, human then discovered science which also help them filling the void by giving an explanation for it. that’s why i think science and religion actually complements each other. they maybe doing it in a different way but they’re filling that void within.
that why i believe religion and science are not two clashing side fighting each other with their weapon of faith and logic. they’re comrade. i’ll try to put it this way:
it’s in our nature to sought knowledge and with that we question everything. human is just a single drop, if not less, in this vast ocean we call universe, the ‘everything’, and even in that single drop so much knowledge are contained we’re not even done knowing it all. we still haven’t found a way to cure cancer, we’re still figuring out how people can actually have different sexual orientation, and we’re just this one teeny tiny part of this thing we call universe. can you imagine how much more are out there?
then it suddenly came to human’s mind:
- what contained this whole limitless everything? if it’s limitless then is it really possible to contain it?
- how did it came to existence? there must have been nothing in the beginning so how did it transformed into everything?
- why did it exist? just because?
- for what purpose did it exist?
- WHO made it exist? WHO arranged all those pieces? did it just exist? but is it really possible for something of no existence came to existence all by itself? if so, then how? why? for what?
on and on it goes until at one point we settled for an ‘answer’: religion along with the concept of God. but then, human is not pleased by an ‘answer’ and so they embark on a quest to find the real answer.
i believe religion by no means is a tool invented to silence human for questioning everything, to brainwash and lead human into not thinking and just accepting. i actually see it as an encouragement, a guidance, in our quest to find the answer of the beginning.
i see religion as a reminder, to remind human about how we’re so small and there are still so many things to be discovered. it reminds human to not be arrogant just because we discover something more because many are still undiscovered.
we want to know about everything yet we don’t even know what is everything. we’re just one of the species inhabited one of the planet in one of the solar system in this universe. we’re nothing. yet even in our nothingness we are so many things.
maybe later on i don’t know when science will be able to unravel everything about this universe and that’s gonna be the end of our quest but until that time come, i believe humanity still needs religion to guide them all the way to the end.
i’m not really a religious person but i do believe in God and the more science able to prove what religion previously said, then more i believe in God. thank you God for giving me this kind of faith.
Allahu Akbar.