Science and God

I returned to the half way home today to spend the weekend and to get ready to rehearse for the monthly event we have here. I am taking part in one of the acts which is a skit thats based on a conversation between a Scientist and God on creating the perfect world. I wont go into the story but mention that the guy who scripted it did an excellent job. I come in the last scene with a narration that goes thus:

So you see my friends, science may advance to the point of extraordinary achievements but the mystery of love and compassion and the feelings of the human heart can only come from a higher power that is both incomprehensible and unfathomable, and cannot be recreated by mortal hands,

To feel for another, to love one another, to care for each other and most of all to be just human, with all our flaws and mistakes, accepting and respecting each other for who we really are as simple human beings…. That is what makes our world beautiful…. That is what makes life truly worth living!!!

I added the following to conclude the narration:

" Now I am more of a Science person and God is my convenient refuge in times of uncertainty and insecurity, but even I was impressed with the eloquence and depth of what the Author wrote. The only thing that came to my mind was a statement attributed to Albert Einstein, "Science without Religion is Lame, Religion without Science is Blind" and another by somebody who was a family friend Abraham Kovoor, an absolute cynic and a practical one at that, in his book "On Looking Back" recounted that when one of his sisters asked him to take medicine for treating a cough while praying to Jesus to cure him, Kovoor replied, "if I do both at the same time I wont know which of the two helped remove the cough. So I will take the medicine now, and if there is no effect, I will try praying."

At the end of the day humans will advance to dizzy heights of achievement in every sphere that we endeavour to conquor but sadly in the process I doubt we will ever learn the damage we inflict on ourselves or that we may loose out on the values that distinguished us as humane in the first place. "