Science versus religion
‘ ’ Science explains the origins of the universe therefore we do not need God’ ’. This quote means that science-for example the big bang, created the universe, without the use, or need for a divine being. The universe was created somehow, so why not by a scientific theory?
Some people (normally un religious) believe that science created the universe. They believe, that an explosion, forming the sun, and thus creating planets occurred, they call it the big bang. It happened when helium and hydrogen mixed. And in a micro second extremely dense matter was formed and a micro second later it was about 5 light years big, they prove this by red shift which is the change of frequency of the stars light wavelength. It proves that stars are moving away from us.
Science can also ‘account’ for the creation of human beings, or how they came into existence using EVOLUTION. In the olden days, it was generally believed that every species had been individually created by God and could not change. Human beings were a creation quite separate from other animals. It was a belief central to western culture. In 1859 Charles Darwin published a theory that offered a different explanation. Its implications were so shocking that he was eventually to destroy his own health through worry. It was an idea society was not ready to hear. The idea that people evolved from apes, over millions of years. There is some evidence, in that millions of year old apes that look like humans have been found. (I think they called one of them sally)
