The title, “God vs Science”, is a misnomer, may be naive and far fetched.
The correct title should be, ‘Christianity vs. Science” or “Bible vs Science”,
since genesis and Old Testament are involved. The statements like, “religion and science
will always clash”, and “religion without science is lame, and science without religion is
blind” are kind of childish. I have watched the debate of creationism vs evolution in
early 1970s in California (and wrote about it in those days) and the incorporation of
creation theory in biology texts then. The resurgence of new ‘intelligent design’ all over
the country now is really, “the old wine in new bottle”. It is more for gathering popular
votes for election, and less for intellectual pursuit of either religion or of science.
Over a billion Hindus, in India and elsewhere, who prefer to call their religion (way
of life) “sanatan dharma” (eternal religion) believe that God created the universe,
earth, and everything on it including human beings, and comes to help the mankind
again and again as incarnation of the Supreme Lord. He has been here at least nine times
in the form of fish, boar, lion, pigmy, Ram, Krishna Budha and others, --- like the
progression of Darwinian Evolution. In addition, believing in dharma, artha, kama and
moska ---- the attributes of duty, wealth, sex and salvation, Hindus do not consider sex
as sin, or God as single male, but always with a wife and consort. Hence no need for
feminism. Woman was, in Hinduism, not created from the rib of a man, but by the
same process, and from the same material, men were created with. In Hinduism, where
not only ‘humanism’ but everything, animate or inanimate is sacred. Science and
and religion are not antagonistic, but two faces of the same coin, and have no conflict.
Sanatan Dharma also considers all religions to be different paths to reach the same God.
The conclusion that God is lot more incomprehensible than any religion has ever
proposed, is brilliant, and is the basic tenet of Hinduism.
Monday, March 24, 2008
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