Oy With The Deep Already!

So oddly enough, a couple of friends of mine got into a similar debate as the one linked below via their Myspace blog. I listened in and was completely in awe. This quote was born of that and gives me chills! Just wanted to share:


"I was attempting to align the idea that religion and science are actually attempting the same ends; they both strive to explain the unexplainable. They both strive to understand that grain of sand at the end of NEVERENDING STORY and the true irony is that neither one will ever fully be able to do so.

So, if that is a choice between limiting my mind to understand God or limitlessly expanding my mind to find God... Then my faith is in the limitless."


I'm loving these conversations about the marriage of religion and science. The debates will only grow more plentiful as we learn more and more about our world.

The idea that science is a religion in and of itself, is a concept that had it been a snake, I would have been bitten. Meaning, any sort of dogmatic statements of the beginnings of life on this world, (that really, we know so little about), is taking a giant leap of faith. Be it following a God or following a text book.

Also this from Einstein who was interested in the joining of these two:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.":

Thanks Jason and Nate for the great conversation.