I need to stop being so lazy, and start writing BlogZ more often. I also won't be doing a second part to the movie reviews one. Seeing as I did all the bigger movies in one go, doing all the smaller obscure movies would be kind of anti-climactic. I will still bitch about Peter Travers's incompetence as a movie reviewer at some point though. But for now, things are gonna take a wide turn into different territory, and I'm gonna ramble on about religion/science/philosophy etc. Just for now though. Until I make another wide turn into something else completely different.
I've never written about the science/religion theme to disprove somebody else's beliefs. I merely do it to point out things you find when you actually look deeper into certain principals and avoid simply believing something because someone layed it out all nice-like on a table in front of you. If everyone believed everything they were told, and never questioned anything, society wouldn't have progressed to where it is now. We'd still be in the middle ages. Burning people for witchcraft and massacring people for heresy. Luckily we adapt and learn from our mistakes and tend to make progress. For the most part.
My personal belief on religions is that they exist on an anthropological basis. If you believe in that whole "evolution" thing, which I do, religion comes into the picture when humans became cognizant enough to start questioning the world around them and wondering why all these things around them were happening. Why does it rain? What is lightning? Why are we here? The first two of those questions, once being explained through religion, are now factually known due to our understanding of the fundamental processes of nature. The third one is a philosophical question that science won't be able to explain, and thusly will always require some sort of faith to come to terms with.
I always loved the argument that a god must exist because "look how perfect everything works". Why is there a moon orbiting us and why do tides just happen? Why are there seasons that occur like clockwork? If you were to do a google search, the results you get back were found by an algorithm being performed. There isn't sombody sending the results to you on an individual basis everytime you do a search. Physics is like this in a way. There are laws of physics at work in the universe and they apply everywhere. There isn't a guy who planned to have a moon orbiting Earth which in turn creates tides. If there is another planet out there with water on the surface and a body orbiting it, it too will have high and low tides. The physics in this are universal. They weren't hand tailored for our planet. This will become more apparent on the day another "Earth" is found. If someone or something created all of this, then they created the physics that govern everything. The way our planet functions is only a result of these physics taking place. If you leave a piece of bread out, it grows mold. You didn't create that mold however. You set in motion the circumstanced that allowed the mold to be created.
There are people who are fearful that science exists to disprove their beliefs. Science exists to help us understand the world around us. It exists to explain why it rains, why there is lightning, and how magnets work. Science will never disprove a god, because untimately the questions of why we are here, and where we go (soul wise) after we die can never be explained by science. They will always remain philosophical questions. Questions that rely on having faith, whether that faith is in a particular religion or against it.
Postscript: I wrote this weeks ago and given my fickle nature, I was already too over it when I came back to actually elaborate on it any. So forgive the half-formulated, not quite finished nature contained within. Have a good day!
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