Some may have mistaken what I have meant about the scientific communities theories regarding evolution and creation. It is only that the man in the street may be taking them as established law, simply because they were the best that science could come up with, and have not been refuted. They are not laws, they are theories, or suggestions. As such they are not the final answer.

We accept them as the best explanation from science. Scientists have rightfully been very careful to draw a line defining what they have proven, and what they still do not actually know. I applaud the “stick to reality of proven facts” that scientists in general have taken. The future will continue to bring new enlightenment.

Because of their hesitancy to attempt any voyage into the world of religion, scientists have generally been regarded by some as defenders, or fathers of atheism. They have given the agnostic, or the atheist, a certain feeling of security in the fact that the scientists, who are some of our most educated, intelligent, scholars, are on their side. Scientists have made more discoveries in the past 150 years than in many hundreds of the preceding years. These changes will, inevitably change the insights of humanity as never before.

Throughout their journey on earth, mankind’s instincts have always made them feel that there must be more to life than they could imagine. Both science and religion were full of superstition and strife. The best way to settle an argument was to stand at 20 paces with firearms and prove who was right. When Ben Franklin toyed with his kite in an amazement of lightening, little could he know what the discovery and management of electricity would bring. Such is, and has been, life.

The brilliant minds of science, whether the individuals were religious or not, dedicated their lives to understand what makes the world turn. As persistence usually pays off, their restless pursuit of how everything works, has brought us to an age that previous humanity could not imagine. They have come to realize that the world, and universe, are precisely controlled by inviolate laws that cannot be changed. Scientists, and educated people in many fields, are becoming more aware, that the entire universe is governed by the magnificence of an organized intelligence that could not, simply by happenstance, crawl out from a bed of slime.. From the intricate organization of the orbits of electrons in atoms, to the planetary orbits of our solar system and beyond, it is becoming more and more evident that organization as intricate as what has been ruling everything, is beyond any possibility of happenstance. Control is persistent and unchangeable.

I remember reading a book in the Collins library titled, “The Language of God.” It was written by one of our leading scientists of the day. I do not recall his name. He was a leader in Washington D.C. on the Genome project. My understanding is that a genome is a study of the organization of the chromosomes in an organism. There have always been scientists who believed in God, and their numbers are slowly growing. They will soon be ushering in many new insights to our world of religion.

Voltaire, a French philosopher from the 16th century said, “Chance is a word without any meaning. Nothing happens without a cause.” Albert Einstein said, “God does not roll dice.” An American historian Charles A. Beard in his book, “The Meaning of Life:” wrote, “The world is not a mere bog, in which men and women trample themselves into the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here among the cruelties and tragedies; … the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best of our curious heritage prevail.”

I presume the basic hope of any religion, is to create a unity of mankind, not drive him into camps armed against one another. I also expect that will be the inevitable result of new insights, with magnificent intelligence overcoming the poverty of ignorance. May God bless America.

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