Religion and science don’t mix, or very rarely could one observation been made on equal footing from both. One argument is that science discovers, and affirms, facts, and by derivation, truth. When science hit on the new discover of quantum physics, it carried out extensive testing and reviewing to affirm that what we come to coin as quantum physics is truth. We might not agree with the terminology and naming “quantum physics”, but the science and discovery is not something we will dispute on. Of course, as human knowledge develops further, and new discoveries come along, what is fundamental truth can be challenged. But truth remains so till that time.
There is a somewhat exciting, as well as uncomfortable, aspects on science and truth: that what it reveals might not please us, might shock us, and / or might even challenge us, our ways of thinking and behaviour. There is minute level of matter transferred from the moon and the sun to earth. It contributes to geological changes of various dimensions on the world we live in. How much much we want to deny it, it remains a fact. Also, the continuous quest for “lives” in planetary bodies near and far from the earth, could reveal the same old account of chemical composition; but for each discovery, we appear to be so overwhelmed by the data. Even the data that is largely the same as another planet we already know something about, we are surprised by the level of similarities. That is a kind of fundamental truth, but that fundamental is resting on a more fundamental truth about how these planets came about.
While the above is not really scientific statements, it does reveal that there is something else in the created world that appears to govern how the creation works, or that the created world behaves using a common sets of rules. Even the way our own bodies work is fascinating. While a person might suffer an illness from a certain environmental conditions, the same conditions might have no effect for another person being exposed to it at the same time. Even things like dietary differences – one might suffer from increased BMI and blood pressure, another might have no effect on both, given the same body composition, age, cultural make-up, diet etc..
- The resistance that some of us put to be “found” by Jesus is we think there is a better way.
- We can agree we don’t (yet) have the better way, we also do not want to accept that Jesus is or has the better way – we are waiting to discover that ideal way, and when we get there we will prove to Jesus that he is wrong.
- We turn to mysticism,
- we turn to science,
- we turn to humanism,
- we turn to deny all but self-throne us as the “seer”, that we decide we are well-placed to find the perfect way.
- Some of us will affirm we have found the way, until they found a better way at a later time.
Jesus said he is the way. It’s like the maze keeper said I know the only way to get through the maze, you can ask for clues. Even if we have got through the maze, which will have consisted of many trials and errors: we would have given up writing our journals in such a way we can re-trace our way, and go through the maze and exit it without errors.
Let’s reflect, are we going about in all sorts of circles trying to find truth, trying to find the way, trying to find that which settles our soul? Do we know where or who the way is?
