Posted for an A level student for comment and discussion
There are thousands of arguments concerning science and religion but who is right and who's wrong? Well Orthodox Christians believe in the "One True God" who created the world and takes a keen interest in those who inhabit it. It is believed that God is pure spirit, the creator of the world, holy and good, all powerful and worthy of mankinds worship and love. Yet science suggests there is no God of any sort - our existence is purely a sequence of random occurences ending up with life, simple you may think but maybe not - where did the first cell come from? This is a gap that Christianity is happy to fill.
But does this make it true? If you are told something by enough people does that make it true? This is how organised religion works. In the Christian church you are taught to ignore things that don't fit with the churches view which leads to closed minded people. Science teaches us to look beyond what is in front of us and question everything.
So can Science and Christianity live harmoniously together in the mind? I don't believe it can purely because one teaches closed mindedness and the other encourages free thinking. Although there have always been exceptions where important scientists have been devout Christians and have been very influencial in the progress of Science, I generally feel these two disciplines can not exist harmoniously together.
