Science, through Reason, would also claim, as religion claims, that its God is the God of Creation. Science's quest is to proclaim itself the Master of Creation through the mastery of and over
creation. The Master of Creation is the God of Creation. Again, no wonder there is a non-solvable controversy between religion and science and between religion and religion and also between science and science, when both religion and science raise up a God who claims to be THE GOD, the God and the Master of Creation. Religion, through possession of its God's Power through the faculty of Faith and science through the Power of its God through the faculty known as Reason, known as intellect, known as humanity. Each system determines that its God is Absolute, in other words, each claims its God is One....meaning that each will not accept any intrusion into their system of belief, their system of worship. For religion, no other God can exist beside its God! Of course, neither religion or science can allow another God to exist besides its own.
The controversy, then, is an opposition to the same identity and a claim to the same identity. This is not an opposing rivalry of opposites but a sibling type of rivalry for who will win the inheritance, for who will inherit the kingdom. Whose God will reign? There can only be one winner and that winner will have Ultimate Power or, better yet, Ultimate Power will determine the winner. Again quoting E. Gates, "The quest to understand what things are made of -which also helps us determine where we fit into the grand scheme of things, reads rather familiar and insinuates that science, as religion, strives for power over life and death. Science strives for power over life and death by seeking to, firstly, extend life indefinitely, secondly, to create life within its test tubes, through using mathematical formulas, and electronic gadgetry, and thirdly and most importantly, to conquer mortal death, thereby creating its own infinity....that is, infinity within creation. Science thereby transfers creation from image into reality----becoming God!
Science strives through experimentation, research, and personal advancement, for power over life and death. Technology has certainly concentrated its efforts on the enhancement and preservation of youth. Science wants to know what the earth is made of so that it can find the means to create life. Not only plant and animal life but ultimately human life. And not only human life but beyond human life to new and futuristic unknown forms of life..... the creation of a new creation. Science studies and experiments with basic elements, with plant and animal life, with powerful drugs and instruments, with machines, with electronic devices and manipulations, with uncharted areas of outer space, with human life and development, and on and on, that it can through Reason and Intellect replace religion's hold and religion's God through the issues of life and death. Science's God of Creation is competing with religion's God of Creation. Competing is the means to accomplishing the goals and is what the controversy is all about. Competing determines whose God is the most Powerful because Power is what is worshipped . The act of creation is the worship of Power. Th question raises its ugly head..... just whose power will win out?
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