Atheism and Science

This age is hailed as the age of technology: the age where man has pushed and ultimately crossed the very boundaries of possibilities and turned them into reality. Man's enterprising spirit and desire for knowledge have led to unparalleled innovations in all fields of life and, if cryogenic freezing is made possible, even death. These inventions and discoveries have induced further doubts in the mind of the so called learned people regarding the necessity and the efficacy of religion in their lives. Science is very busy these days in questioning and disproving the age old religious beliefs.

But is this atheistic concept or belief the sole reality? The reasons for such a belief seem to be pretty interesting. Almost, if not all, the scientists that claim themselves to be atheists have been - dare I say - 'disillusioned' by the two prime monotheistic religions they they belong to: Christianity and Judaism. If we take the Nobel Prize as the highest symbol for excellence in the scientific world, then most Nobel Prize winners are either Christians or Jews. The other major purely monotheistic religion, Islam, has had 11 winners, whereas Hinduism, the most varied of all religions, has had 6 ( I could not find any other Buddhist Nobel Prize Winner other than the Dalai Lama). Now if most of the so-called geniuses believe that there is no God in the Universe and that science in one form or the other is sufficient for explaining all of it's workings, then they are surely mistaken.

A scientist's mind is conditioned to work on facts and facts only. The scientist will not accept any other point of view that contradicts his/her own logic and reasoning. Using these weapons of logic and reasoning, the modern scientists are busy bringing down the entire structure of religion. But this is where they are wrong. Each and every scientific theory stands true only as long as the experiments confirm it's truth. The moment one experiment yields results that are contradictory to the theory, the theory is banished and a search for the new one begins. Now imagine that God is one such theory and the various religions are it's various experiments. If a scientist who does not know even of the various experiments on which the theory has been tested, he can't say that the theory does not give satisfactory results. Similarly, if a person does not know about religion then he can't deny the existence of God. He may not accept His existence as well, but the denial is equally wrong.

So if a person is dissatisfied o unimpressed by a system of religion, he has to continue his search by other ways and means until he is 100% sure of the truth of his belief. In the scientists' case, they have an advantage of already heading into that direction. Each and every scientist is pushing the limits of science in his own way, only unconscious of the fact that he may stumble upon the greatest and simplest truth along the way: Self Realization. Only after this will the truce between science and religion be forever reached.