• Question: If you had to choose your religion (if you have one) over science, would you?

    Asked by 332xygg37 to Gavin, Karen, Mark, Michel, Roisin on 11 Nov 2016.
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      Michel Destrade answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      I find that when I study a religion you eventually hit against questions that can’t be answered and answers that must be accepted at face value. When you study science, you can always question everything. Scientific theories are accepted because they work, until we find that they don’t work in some or all cases and then they have to be changed or abandoned. Also there are still a lot of unanswered questions and scientists are free to explore them. I find all this very satisfying and exciting.

      Of course, everybody is different; in fact there many scientists who are religious, and they don’t have to chose one way over the other.

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      Karen answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      I’m not religious so I would always choose science ?

    • Photo: Mark Kennedy

      Mark Kennedy answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      I’m like Karen, I don’t have a religion.

      Having said that, I do believe there are questions in science that we probably won’t be able to understand (at least, not in my life time). The biggest examples are “What caused the Big Bang?” and “What came before the Big Bang”? If you believe in a cycle for the Universe, where there’s a Big Bang, followed by a Big Crunch, followed by a Big Bang and so on forever, there still remains the question of “What started the cycle going?”.

      I think that’s where religion comes in, in trying to answer those questions. But I try not to worry about those questions myself 🙂

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