beauty
today, an older woman, a patient, proper and a little snotty, made an interesting comment while i was taking care of her (me: younger, not in a white coat, probably a heathen).
she looked at a picture of the human body hung up on the wall and said to her husband:
"that's what the evolutionists don't understand.
the human body is so amazing.."
her husband chimes in: "it couldn't be made by chance"
so it took me a second. i don't actually disagree with most of their statement.
the human body is so amazing. it couldn't be made by chance.
it was made through this amazing process called evolution.
or, in their minds, it could only have been made by God.
now, realize that their statement was dripping in sanctimony and i don't actually think they were relaying any true wonder about the body. but that exact beauty i find in the body, in science, is exactly why my faith is science. the actual process of evolution, that we got here, how we got here, all that we actually don't know is exactly part of that beauty and my love and awe of it.
yet, sincerely, that exact same love or awe of the body or nature is what drives people to believe in god. it confirms their existence of a god.
now i don't believe that religion and science are mutually exclusive. there's absolutely a possibility that a god could have created evolution and i know i don't have enough information to have an informed enough opinion to argue this latter possibility.
it still astounds and surprises me, what drives people's faith.
she looked at a picture of the human body hung up on the wall and said to her husband:
"that's what the evolutionists don't understand.
the human body is so amazing.."
her husband chimes in: "it couldn't be made by chance"
so it took me a second. i don't actually disagree with most of their statement.
the human body is so amazing. it couldn't be made by chance.
it was made through this amazing process called evolution.
or, in their minds, it could only have been made by God.
now, realize that their statement was dripping in sanctimony and i don't actually think they were relaying any true wonder about the body. but that exact beauty i find in the body, in science, is exactly why my faith is science. the actual process of evolution, that we got here, how we got here, all that we actually don't know is exactly part of that beauty and my love and awe of it.
yet, sincerely, that exact same love or awe of the body or nature is what drives people to believe in god. it confirms their existence of a god.
now i don't believe that religion and science are mutually exclusive. there's absolutely a possibility that a god could have created evolution and i know i don't have enough information to have an informed enough opinion to argue this latter possibility.
it still astounds and surprises me, what drives people's faith.