Have you ever thought that religion and science may be teaching the same thing? They're just viewing from differant points and differant angles.
Just think about this.
After a freak volcanic eruption around the turn of the 23rd century, most of Italy, including Rome and the Vatican, were buried under five hundred feet of ash.
Hundreds of years later, an archaeologist discoveres Rome. This great city that was once the center of a world-wide religion is now one of the greatest finds in earth's history, ranking up there with King Tut's Tomb.
However, when they discovered the Vatican and the Sistene Chaple, they were awed at the perfectly preserved colored painting on the roof. Having never found anything like it before, they bring in the top scientists.
These scientists look at the painting. They take hundreds of pictures, close-ups only. They said you could only truly understand the painting's value if you examine each pixle (which grew much smaller in the five hundred years).
So, these scientists picked apart the painting. They looked at the pictures through microscopes, examining each stroke of the painter's brush. They looked at each minute smudge that was made.
And they said that these smudges couldn't have been made by somebody. They're too imperfect. Just by looking at the pictures, they can't tell what the picture is even of. Therefore, the sun and wind must have blown on the original, perfect painting, smearing and fading it.
However, one scientist went back to the Chapel and looked up. He instantly understood. He went back to the scientists and told them that the picture made sense. It was complete, whole, real. Some scientists agreed with him and went back to the Chapel, but looked at the cieling only through telescopes, again looking at each smudge.
The one scientist tried to talk to the others. "Listen," he said, "this was obviously painted by hand, recently! Those smudges you see are purposeful, giving the painting a cool, real look. It's a real painting!"
"No," they said, "it can't be. Here's a smudge that wouldn't make sense if it was a painting." "Look at this speck," said one. "This blur," said another. "This smear," said a third.
"Take a step back and look at the picture," the one said. He looked up in amazement at the painting. "Just look. That speck you mentioned, that blur that smear, it all comes together to form a perfect picture! Look at the whole picture, and you'll see!"
Two of the twenty scientists stepped back and looked up. "Oh," they said, "it all makes sense. My little dot, it fits!"
"This is amazing," said one of the new observers.
"I want to see what more I can find out," said the second.
So, both went back to their telescopes and microscopes and found things that woulnd't fit normally. Then, they'd take a step back and look at the picture and realize how it does fit.
Science is looking at what makes life up, all the physical properties of the universe, the equations, the formulas, the proofs, the evidence. Science is finding out the little pixels that make up the picture, and relition is finding out how all those little pixels come together to form the huge picture of life.
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