God vs Science

Brought up an atheist, i have never really believed in god but when things go my way, i still call it a god-sent miracle. When taught of the Darwinian theory of evolution, i swallowed it all up and sincerely believe that a few million years ago my ancestors were monkeys. Yet, many do not see it as i do, believing the Genesis story. The debate over whether there is God in the first place has raged for aeons, and has since escalated to an unprescedented levels with scientific publications regarding this issue flooding the market. Time recently had a debate held at their office.

Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion" was invited over, along with Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute since 1993, also author of "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief" It is very clear which side they are on. Many of us prefer to be neutral, we cheer on the advancements in science, but still be humble on the Sabbath. We wish to believe in MRIs and miracles, trying to get the best of both worlds.However, the two experts strongly believe that science and God can never coexist.

In the case of the creation of humans, science had the Darwinian theory while God had the Genesis story. Dawkins believes that the Darwinian theory does more than simply contradict the Genesis story. For many centuries, the strongest argument for God's existence was the argument from design : Living thigs so beautiful and elegant and seemingly purposeful that only an intelligent designer could have created. Darwin provided a simpler explanation in that everything was done incrementally over millions of years to achieve more elegance, more adaptive perfection.

Universal constants are argued upon and seen in a way that i would have never bothered to. Collins argues that the gravitational constant if even off by one in a hundred million million would have made the expansion preceding the Big Bang not to have happened in a fashion where life could exist. It is difficult to assume that this- our existence actually happened by chance.

Collins believes that God is outside of space and time and that everything that is currently unexplainable can be explained by God. Which actually makes things very arguable as Dawkins counters by arguing that God may be Martians gods or even aliens from Alpha Centauri and not Jesus.

Reading on, i can conclude that the debate could go on for quite a while if there were no time limit. It is impossible for me to comprehend some deeply engaging issues in this matter but being someone quite engaged in science, i do beleive that science may solve everything someday, but some people may think that that would have to be a miracle.