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Science, Religion & the Human Genome |
Science, Religion & the Human Genome
Scientific investigation has finally broken the code of the elements of life. The human genome consists of all the DNA of the human species and is the hereditary code of life. This investigation and experiment took place in order to try and understand the complexity of human life or of the human body. The investigation took ten years and such was the extraordinary amount of biological information carried within one cell of the human body, that if you put it in writing and read it at a rate of one word per second, it would take you thirty-one years to read.
It was one of the biggest undertakings by scientists since scientific investigation began. For the first time scientists put together the code of life in the form of an amazing script, carrying within it all of the instructions for the making of a human being.
Professor Frances S. Collins, the scientist in charge of the Human Genome Project, worked for over a decade with a large team of renowned scientists and biologists to unravel the mystery of the complete DNA sequence that gives the blueprint for Human life. He was an atheist before he began this project, but after this investigation he came to the conclusion that there had to be a God, and he became a member of the Catholic Church.
Reading this report I discovered that on the day this was made known to the world, Professor Collins, as well as the many other scientists involved, made the pronouncement in the presence of Ex. President Bill Clinton and Ex. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, two men who were deeply interested and as friends in their private life had in fact helped to inspire this scientific investigation and therefore had awaited the findings for as long as the scientists had worked on it.
Bill Clinton began by thanking all the scientists for their great endeavour and said that without a doubt this was the most important, and most wondrous project ever carried out by science in the name of humankind. But then amazingly after lavishing great praise on the scientists he turned from the scientific to the spiritual and said: "What this shows us on this historic day and I say this without fear of contradiction, is that you have proven the existence of God and in fact we are today learning the language in which God created life, and we are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, and the wonder of God's most divine and sacred gift."
Professor Collins being the scientist in charge of the project, was asked afterwards by a Washington Post news reporter, was he taken aback at such a blatantly religious reference by a leader of the free world on such a scientific occasion as this. “Not at all” said the scientist; “in fact I would strongly endorse every word he said”.
When Tony Blair was asked to say a few words he said, "It's a happy day for the world. It is very humbling and awe-inspiring for me, to realise that we have caught the first glimpse of how the human form was made, previously known only to God."
Another journalist put another question at the press conference, he asked “why would a President, a Prime Minister and a renowned scientist, charged with announcing a milestone in biology and medicine, feel compelled to invoke such a reference to God? He asked, “was it just words? Or an attempt to disarm those who had criticised this study of the human genome as going too far”?
Tony Blair answered the question, “I think it is quite the opposite” he said, “for I believe every human is spiritual at heart, but unfortunately most intellectuals feel if they can't prove something, then it is easier on their intellect to conclude that its existence is a random act of nature without plan or purpose. On this occasion however all their conclusions point to the fact that this hugely complex analysis of the human genome, and the uncovering of this most remarkable of all codes to human existence, was both a stunning scientific achievement, and an extraordinary occasion for the worship of God.
Many today would tell you that a top scientist could not also be a serious believer in a transcendent God, i.e. a God who is outside the experience of the Universe. But these extraordinary utterances by these ultra-intelligent human beings, both scientists and academics, must dispel that notion for all time, by showing that belief in God and the principles of faith are in fact, complementary with the principles of science.
This potential coming together of the scientific and spiritual world is assumed by many in modern times to be an impossibility, but the process of deductive reasoning from these intelligent men proves differently.
It is encouraging to note that ninety three percent of our world still profess belief in a God, whether that God be a Muslim God, a Hindu God, a Sikh God, or whatever belief in God one follows. When all is said and done it is the same God, but people just go different roads, depending on the culture one is born into. But regardless of that, nearly all of them would drive cars, use electricity, use a computer, and use many other scientific gadgets and this demonstrates that no one of a religious belief would have objection to science being part of their daily lives, and it doesn't interfere with their belief in any way, nor should it, because science is complementary to life.
And what about spiritual belief amongst scientists? This is actually much more prevalent than many realise, but atheists would have you believe, especially those in the Irish media, that belief in God and science cannot coexist.
In my research for this article I discovered that in a study done in 1916, researchers asked biologists, physicists, and mathematicians whether they believed in a God who actively communicates with humankind and to whom one may pray in expectation of receiving an answer. 50 percent answered in the affirmative. Then in 1997, the very same survey was repeated verbatim-and to the surprise of the researchers, the percentage division remained exactly the same.
So perhaps the atheistic media gurus who continually claim there is no coming together between science and religion are wrong?
Unfortunately the evidence of harmony between science and religion is often overshadowed by the high-decibel pronouncements of those atheists who seem to totally occupy the Newspaper and Television world today, showing only one side of this continuous debate.
Today the atheistic scientist Richard Dawkins, author of ‘The God Delusion’ who shouts the loudest discrediting and dismissing the spiritual beliefs of millions as well as 50 % of his scientist colleagues as sentimental nonsense, has emerged as the leading spokesperson for the point of view that a belief in evolution demands atheism.
But to say that because you believe in God, you cannot believe in evolution is total misconception. Can God not be the author of evolution?
Among his many other ludicrous statements are the following:
“Faith is the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence”.
He says: “No one can prove the existence of God”.
But can he prove the non-existence of God?
Dawkins says: Religious people are continuously trying to find God,
Nobody would disagree with that.
Dawkins says: “Faith is belief in spite of the lack of evidence”.
But of course, the word faith means trust in something without there being a logical proof.
I think he should read Shakespeare’s wonderful soliloquy, from Hamlet in full, It begins with the famous words,
To be or not to be, that is the question.
Science's domain is the natural world.
God's domain is the spiritual world.
One you look at with the mind, the other you look at with the soul. Science is the only reliable way to understand the natural world and that which we can see, touch and hear, this they do with calculations and a slide rule.
But one of the strongest motivations of humankind is to seek answers to the unseen and that which is incalculable.
Unfortunately Richard Dawkin’s one-dimensional theories permeate and dominate modern life and it follows inevitably that his type of preaching is basically responsible for the ominous and the chaotic moral and social disintegration of life that we are experiencing everywhere today.
Richard Dawkins, has every right not to believe in God but my criticism of him would be his utter contempt for other peoples beliefs, for after all his theory that there is no God, is just another belief.
No one can prove or disprove God and therefore belief and disbelief are hostages to the future and just as valid to the individual that holds either view.
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