History has shown that from the timeframe of the mid-1600s, the awakening of a scientific approach to understanding the natural world around us opened the means for humankind to advance toward his higher potential. Science has proven itself to be the exploration of the interrelatedness of all things, and as such it is not exactly a method intended for passing moral interpretations or guidance. And this neutral position in the study of the amoral energy interactions that involve as Creation tends to traumatize those who feel that such a systematic study is in some way an affront to some divine Creator, Maker or Designer.
Science probes the unknown and benefits humanity by collecting testable information (data). This long proven means of understanding the nature and functioning of life around us does not attempt to extend a system of moral guidance, however. Any moral conclusions may be presumed only by how history within the data displays a customary outcome. Data, plural of datum, refers to information that is organized for analysis and which is used as the basis upon which researchers collectively reach definitive decisions. In science and in the commercial world, unlike the faith business, a proposition may stand only as long as data supports the idea. And herein is the major difference between science and mankind’s inconclusive faith systems.
Blind faith, on the other hand, often declares itself as being in possession of soul-saving wisdom, but that wisdom is accepted without any cross-reference as “revealed wisdom.” For at least a couple of millennia that approach to understanding the world and the universe around us was the imposed standard by which the human species coped with Creation’s mysteries.
Science, however, seeks to understand the principles upon which nature and the universe function. Delving into such mysteries does not extend to those studies the means to legislate how the Creation process fulfills itself any more than religious or political beliefs legislate those universal powers. Strange as it may seem to the dutifully devout, a sense of spirit is always present in any scientific investigation. In seeking to ascertain how some aspect of Creation functions only magnifies the researcher’s awe, which is further confirmed in their devotion to collecting more extensive data. That awesome Creation process is not offended when mankind seeks to behold it.
Religious fanatics, on the other hand, feel threatened by every fact that scientific investigation discovers and will then labor devotedly to get Bronze Age speculations (religion) inserted into science classrooms. In place of carefully amassed data, the faithful would install their favorite ego-pleasing scriptures. The difference between these two approaches to enlightenment is obvious: The “faithful” seek ego-comfort from what they believe in, while those moved by scientific investigation find a higher serenity in what they have come to understand of Creation. To the religionists’ disadvantage, their books of scripture, regardless of their age, do not confirm anything as does analytical data.
Rationality is not a fundamentalist’s strong point, thus we have an army of Creationists that seek to impose upon academic institutions their religious interpretations of how the universe and life came into existence out of nothing. (After a few God-saids.) Their characteristic indulgence in hypocrisy is in full bloom in doing this, for they dare to insist that the biblical version of Creation be a mandatory subject in classrooms. It is deemed by them that to teach the scientific understanding that Creation took eons of evolutionary action is unfair to their improbable beliefs. There is glaring hypocrisy in this fundamental stance. Pre-college studies may, perhaps, include a fifty-minute-hour of biology five days a week where the concept of evolution may be briefly touched upon; but even so the principle of evolution is not addressed as being central in biology studies—or any other classes.
The bogus squawking of alleged “unfairness” in school classes by religious bullies means only that fundamentalists want no free will choices offered to anyone. The “fairness” balance that they claim to seek in school curriculum means that everyone else should ignore the fact that a school day averages out to be about seven hours of different classes for a student: the remaining 16-17 hours of each day—as well as the extra days of the weekends—are open for the fundies to program their offspring as they choose. So how could offering a brief investigative look at all the possibilities that are visibly present in a diverse Creation be such a severe spiritual handicap to the students?
Learning the facts and amassing data on how nature and the universe function has not yet disturbed the continuing process of Creation activities. Could that obvious divine indifference to man’s curiosity perhaps mean that the “Maker” gave mankind an evolved brain with the expectation that he would use it for something more constructive than attempted domination of each other?
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