Harry Han
It all begins with Adam or Lucy; for centuries or even for thousands of years, an argument of whether to continue religious practices or search further knowledge has been a question to many people. Today science drives and improves people’s daily lives, and religion seems to fade out. Thus when it comes to higher education most religious students find themselves in trouble whether to focus more on the logics of science rather than their religious practices, and turns out balancing between religion and science seems difficult.
In class students face numerous interferences with religion and the discovery of science, especially in the class of biology. In the article “Religious right fights science for the heart of America,” by Suzanne Goldenberg, Al Frisby, a high school student who has been educated with the idea of God’s creation of “Eve out of Adam’s rib,” challenges his Biology teacher during the topic of genetics that God created life rather than bunch of cells. It’s possible that this argument can be debated within the high school level. However as education takes up to much higher level of college, science seems more logical and understanding than the words of the Bible. Thus sometimes religious students lose the idea of believing.
But the idea of science is not really the counter of God’s creation. According to the Merrium-Webster’s dictionary, the definition of science is “knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws.” This infers that science is a process of seeking truth but if the idea from the Bible and the general definition combine, science is a language to understanding god’s truth.
Many people still believe that science and religion cannot bind together as they contrast in their ideas. However the ideas between each other cannot clash nor counter as science in higher education is merely a language tool to figure out what god has created.
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