Marrying Science and Religion

All my life, I have been brought up more or less in a secular school environment. It was quite interesting that looking back, I never really paid too much attention on what they taught in Biology or Physics that much, never really speculated why things evolved and what it meant to be for me as human. Knowing facts of "Java man", which is about 2 million years, did not bother me somehow. I suppose it was the "excitement" of learning various animals dissected, seeing various species of plants and the rote memorization for exams were sufficient enough to keep me busy to ask the important questions. I never realized how heavily influenced these lessons were with thoughts and ideals of Darwinism.

Now the thing is, on certain level, I think I accept how things evolve generally for other living beings. However, I remember now that I always refuse to accept the fact that humans also went through the same process just like any other plants or animals. My religious proclivity just refuse this idea of natural evolution as proposed by Darwin, when it comes to human evolution.

Scientists are currently hard at work to continually decode our DNA, if I am not mistaken, they have mapped all the DNA components known in human now. Now the task is to understand what each strand of our DNA component is doing. So far, only 3% of DNA has been decoded, where scientists know what each of them do. Unfortunately, the 97% percent is considered by them as "junk DNA", something which I found to be an outright arrogant statement. It's the same thing when scientists look up to the sky and see how over 95% of it is pitch black, for which they have no knowledge, they call them "dark matter". It's hard for them to say,"I don't know" somehow :P

So going back to our discussion on evolution, well, as I mentioned, it is still difficult for me to conceive the idea that humans are from this planet called Earth. Even Francis Crick, the father of DNA, proposed a hypothesis called Panspermia, which basically said that humans might be "seeded" and "designed intelligently" by an alien civilization. Of course, God did not come into his equation, being an atheist that he was.

So the fight is now raging to determine whether or not DNA is "intelligently designed" or a simple process of pure Darwinian evolution. I tend to think the first model will be proven eventually..

Observation from Supernatural by Graham Hancock