Science and Religion

   One of the epic and historic controversies, which involves certain disputes which changed the course of history over time to a great extent, which affected the definition of faith and which made us to reconsider our believes and faith, yes of course the dispute between Religion and Science. This historic dispute falls back into the 1600s to the time of Galileo Galilei, if we specifically talk about a dispute between Christianity and Science. But of course, in modern world, this dispute is not over yet, rather it has taken a different form.

   From the beginning, when humans evolved enough to use the brain and made certain theories, the questions were also born with such evolution, the questions pointing towards their origin, how is this universe came into existence, how our Earth was born, why are we here and what is the purpose behind our existence. Man has been trying to get answers to each of these particular questions and some other questions too. For this purpose, Religion steps forward and tries to provide answers. Gradually, Science becomes powerful enough to compete Religion and provided mankind with more relevant answers along with the logic. But there is one Religion whose teachings are those of Quran’s, Islam. Islam tend to answer each and every question which mankind has asked of it’s origin. Quran, acting as a complete code of life, explains every aspect of life to mankind. This fact that, many Scientific laws and principles have been predicted long ago by Quran, has been admitted by many scientists all over the world. For instance, Quran says that the only reason mankind is created is that it worships it’s true Lord, Allah or God, one single God.

   Whereas, on the other hand, Christianity failed to give answers to those questions and also gradually the true teachings of Jesus and The Bible were altered according to the wishes which led it’s followers to have belief in such wrong concepts that just took birth as a result of transmutation. Like, the birth of Jesus Christ could not in anyway be on 25th December, because we know that shepherds were in the fields watching their flocks at the time of Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:7-8)*. Shepherds were not in the fields during December. According to Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays , Luke’s account "suggests that Jesus may have been born in summer or early fall. Since December is cold and rainy in Judea, it is likely the shepherds would have sought shelter for their flocks at night" (p. 309). And history shows that December 25 was popularized as the date for Christmas, not because Christ was born on that day, but because it was already popular in pagan religious celebrations as the birthday of the sun.

   This was only one example, there exist many others which explain that Christianity fell prey to transmutation. So when such mistakes in their Religion were realized by some people, obviously there was some sort of opposition and therefore to maintain the faith of people in it, the Church took certain steps to ensure it’s strong position and to compete with such forces which were putting efforts to minimize the faith of people in the Church. Here at this point, the events of 1616 when the Church declared Copernicanism “false and erroneous” and commanded Galileo never again to “defend or hold” the doctrine and Galileo acquiesced. Stephen Hawking, in his book A Brief History of Time, writes about Galileo, “Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern Science. His renowned conflict with the Catholic Church was central to his philosophy, for Galileo was one of the first to argue that man could hope to understand how the world works, and, moreover, that we could do this by observing the real world.” Now when Galileo spoke of Copernican Theory, Church had to do something for it was under the pressure of Aristotelian professors, so the Church banned Copernicanism. This triggered another event which involves the establishment of a secret society of Scientists mainly, particularly in Rome, which vowed to fight against the brutal behavior of the Church with Science, and this society was later called as Illuminati. (As the historians tell us that the Illuminati Brotherhood is factual, so there are some misconceptions that relate conspiracy theories with Illuminati, but according to my viewpoint, Illuminati was a secret society comprising of scientists trying to change the way in which the Church was dealing with Science, of course subjective perception may vary.)

  On the other side of the picture, lies the story of Science, which is producing miracles on daily basis and providing human beings with a lot of answers they have ever asked. As I said earlier, Quran had predicted many miracles and developments 1400 years ago, and to this fact many scientists agree. But science also opposed Religion in many cases, like modern theory of relativity. the works of Dr. Abdul Salam are extraordinary in this regard who formed the concepts of Quran as his basis for the unification of the two forces of nature, weak nuclear force and the electromagnetic force.

 So the final words are, this historic conflicts raises many questions and yet there are many answers to find. But the point is that, Religion is nothing but a combination of beliefs, and Science proves such things which ultimately will guide us to a single source of force which keeps balance in the Universe, God. Science may have conflict with Genesis (Bible), but the form of this conflict is not relevant as God does what He wants. “"Originator (is He) of the heavens and the earth; and when He decrees a matter to be, He only says to it ‘ Be’ and it is." (Al Baqarah 117)

(The aim of this blog is certainly not to prefer Islam over Christianity, but truth does not hide for long, the sole purpose of this blog is to convey information to the readers which I hope to be useful for them in any sense.)

  *Luke 2:7-8

 “and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.”