Wedding Dresses

Complimentary are the seeking of reliably consistent explanations of the “why’s and how’s” of life. The differences are in how the stories of the “why’s and how’s” of life are “sought after” and consequently told.

Science tenaciously seeks to answer questions of life from hard evidence gathered from interactions of matter and energy and their resultant dynamic and diverse causalities and perceived determinism as experienced through sensory inputs.

Religion tenaciously seeks to answer questions of life that science ultimately can’t or hasn’t yet been able to answer. Religion, unlike science, also provides, and unfortunately in some cases dictates, ethics and morality essential for civil mass social interaction.

Science concludes to jump, religion jumps to conclusions.

Religion pacifies, appeases and comforts fear and ignorance (ironically even sometimes instills fear as a control mechanism…”God fearing” Never understood why I should ‘fear’a God? What a terrible life that would be. Life’s complicated and hard enough as it is). Science theorizes, experiments and tries to enlighten and explain away ignorance. It’s complementary that where one fails the other succeeds.

It surprises me that no one has stated the most important and obvious differential between religion and science; what happens to me when I die?

The religious and scientific why’s, what’s and how’s of our “sentient existence” is certainly interesting and worth debating, but what really scares the bajeebers out of and totally eludes scientists and theologians alike is what happens when we biologically cease to function on this petri dish we call Earth.

Hard science won’t touch paranormal after-life questions, so it’s left to religion to pacify and appease the greatest fear and unknown of all; what happens to me when I die?

It’s interesting and confusing to me that science and religion would ever be at odds. But then, determining the course that human nature has, is and will set is impossible.