Never ending war between science and religion
In the essay, “Without God”, the author, Steven Weinberg, highlighted the prediction of Ralph Waldo Emerson in “The American Scholar” which transformed the American cultures and societies. He argues that the world has become a better place because of the scientific discoveries and the decline in religious belief is obvious and a day will come when people will have no faith on religion. The argument that the scientific discoveries have unveiled the mystery of natural phenomena making earth a better place to live is right because the will of Wright’s brothers to fly like bird invented the airplane and so are discoveries of electricity and solar energy. However, he fails …show more content…
The author contradicts himself. At the same time he argues that the strength of religion was from observed phenomena and when scientific discoveries uncover the mystery, the faith in religion has declined. As a physicist, he has put forward his opinion but the strength of science is only to that physical explanation and human with limited knowledge are trying to make people believe on it. The author completely forgets that Newton’s belief on religion has made it possible to postulate the laws of motion. Why does the author talk about the philosophical things when he is a physicist who has other mysteries to unveil to support science rather than reject religion?
The theories and scientific discoveries are not good enough to explain about the origin of universe. This failure can be attributed to scientists and at the same time the complexity of the origin of universe can be attributed to unseen power. Human eyes can detect a portion of electromagnetic spectrum and so are our other sense organs. When science can generalize the origin of universe to the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics why cannot religion generalize the limitation of human knowledge as a small portion of the vast knowledge of
In the essay, “Without God”, the author, Steven Weinberg, highlighted the prediction of Ralph Waldo Emerson in “The American Scholar” which transformed the American cultures and societies. He argues that the world has become a better place because of the scientific discoveries and the decline in religious belief is obvious and a day will come when people will have no faith on religion. The argument that the scientific discoveries have unveiled the mystery of natural phenomena making earth a better place to live is right because the will of Wright’s brothers to fly like bird invented the airplane and so are discoveries of electricity and solar energy. However, he fails …show more content…
The author contradicts himself. At the same time he argues that the strength of religion was from observed phenomena and when scientific discoveries uncover the mystery, the faith in religion has declined. As a physicist, he has put forward his opinion but the strength of science is only to that physical explanation and human with limited knowledge are trying to make people believe on it. The author completely forgets that Newton’s belief on religion has made it possible to postulate the laws of motion. Why does the author talk about the philosophical things when he is a physicist who has other mysteries to unveil to support science rather than reject religion?
The theories and scientific discoveries are not good enough to explain about the origin of universe. This failure can be attributed to scientists and at the same time the complexity of the origin of universe can be attributed to unseen power. Human eyes can detect a portion of electromagnetic spectrum and so are our other sense organs. When science can generalize the origin of universe to the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics why cannot religion generalize the limitation of human knowledge as a small portion of the vast knowledge of