RELIGION|SCIENCE
The Religious Disconnect
The battle between dogma and discovery
Religion was always a fascinating subject to me when I was younger. In high school, I devoured the religious debates that I could find on YouTube and participated in these sorts of conversations every chance that I could find. The arguments on this subject are something I’ve spent years familiarizing myself with.
In these conversations, like the one featured below, it’s typically been rare for much in the way of agreement to take place, even though there are certainly thoughtful arguments in favor of organized religion to be made.
In an older world, religion reigned supreme. When the forces riling around us were each terrifying mysteries, though, we were certainly eager for answers. For the early humans that walked the earth, it’s hard to imagine the sorts of conclusions that would have been drawn in the face of volcanoes, tornadoes and thundering storm clouds. To them, even the forces behind the tides were conundrums beyond our scope.
Whether the earth was flat, and whether it stood fixed at the center of everything were questions to which we were thousands of years away from formulating the beginnings of answers. To some of the earliest civilizations, it was thought largely that the sky that emerged above…
