They are not opponents. Love and Science. Neither are God and Science for that matter. Although we often assume otherwise. Like two magnets that are repelling against each other, we are certain that the two just can't be combined...until someone comes by and flips one of the magnets over and the two miraculously meet. At least, thats how I think of it sometimes.
Today, God/faith and science somehow came up in conversation more than once. And then, as I was looking for images of Love to put up on this blog, I found this one which actually linked me to a Blogsite entitled "Scientific Blogging: Science 2.0" and an article called "The Chemistry of Love" for which this picture was used...and I decided to take it as a sign.
And so I make my post today about God, Love and Science.
Whenever I end up talking Science with people, I somehow always end up bringing up the fact that many great Scientists are believers in God. For example, Georges Lemaitre...whose name you have probably never heard before...was the scientist who came up with the Big Bang Theory...which I'm sure you have heard of before...and Mr Lemaitre was actually Fr. Lemaitre, a Roman Catholic Priest as well as being a professor of physics and an astronomer :-) ...pretty awesome right! For this reason, I always find it incredibly amusing when Christians argue against teaching about the Big Bang theory in schools because they think its anti-God in some way...when really the guy who came up with the theory completely believed in God and didn't think what he theorized refuted there being a God who created the universe, if anything the exact opposite is true!
Other great scientific minds who believe in God (whose names you probably recognize): Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Isaac Newton, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, Lord Kelvin, and Francis Collins (leader of the Human Genome Project)....to name just a few.
So what does this have to do with Love? you might ask...well I think Love and God often become thought of as opposed to Science or visa-versa because Science is always looking for proof. In Science, you make a hypothesis and then you prove it with a series of tests...the only problem is...you can't really test or prove either Love or God.
And yet, we feel Love...we feel God. We hear, see, smell, taste, feel Love when we are in the presence of our spouse, our beloved, and we do not doubt it, we know it to be true and we know God to be there in that moment. This is faith. And this is why we get married. Because there is no way you can prove to yourself or to anyone else that the commitment that you are making to be with this one person for the rest of your life is going to work out. "Soulmates" is not a scientifically proveable condition...you can't test for it like you can test for blood compatability..."oh you are AB +, well so am I so I guess we're meant to be together"...that doesn't work. You're decision to get married is a leap of faith, because even though you believe and even know in your heart that its right, that this person is "the one", there is no real way to prove it... But don't worry...we can't seem to prove the Big Bang theory either...thats why its called a "Theory" and not a Principle :-)
(P.S. do check out that article about the Chemistry of Love and the responses to it if you get a chance...I think you'll find it very interesting :-) )
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