About Christianity

science is the new religion. science overtakes the supernatural. there is nothing science cannot explain. science rules.

how many of you think that? i think you might have heard enough about the so many miracles on earth for life to exist so that you have to believe in God, such as if the elements of the earth are slightly different from what we have we would all die. or maybe if we are a little nearer or further from the sun we would all be extinct. or maybe if the composition of the air is not what we have now, we would never have existed in the first place. you can read all these somewhere else.

in my own opinion, i am going to write out what i think is the function of science on earth.

science, of course, is a set of logical reasoning to explain all the things that happened on earth so we could get a better understanding of our surroundings. science, is a set of logic, derived from human intelligence and approved by all. through science, we explained what could not be explained in the past.

many people now do not believe God put a rainbow after rains. rather, people believe it is the what? (humidity or something like that) that causes the rainbow to form. forgive me my physics is terrible. what used to be miracles could be explained by science. natural disasters are no longer divine punishments, they are just reactions of the earth or the shifting of tetonic plates. no i am not going to convince you that disasters are punishments. that is not the point of this post.

to me, God created us on earth. and as this is our home, we need to understand how it works. God is high above, and His wisdom is higher than ours. of course, if left alone, we could never comprehend what the earth is and how it works. so He gave us intelligence to understand it. the set of logic which later formed science is for us to understand our home, and more importantly, to show us there is a God.

science has improved so many years. we researched a lot, and learnt a lot. yet the more we learn, the more things we found out we don't know. we discovered the earth is round, then we found out the earth revolves round the sun, then we found out the solar system is part of the milky way etc. the more we find out, the more we are mystified. the wonders of the nature.

can't you see? there is a God. in just 6 days, He created what we humans, with our science, took more than 5000 years to explore and not yet gain a complete understanding of all His works. shouldn't you feel that the more you dwell into science, the more you are amazed at His works?

to me, science is a tool for us to marvel at His creation, so that we know how great is our God. science, by no means, can replace God. it is not a god. it is not a religion. it is just a set of logic that God gives us so we can use it to explore our home, and to be amazed at His works. give the human race another 10,000 years, and even if we could colonize Pluto, i assure you, we would still not be able to fully explore and understand all that He created and set in place in just 6 days.

now, shouldn't science humble you, instead of making you proud that finally our brain can replace God? idols are what humans made with their hands to worship. science is what humans made up with in their brain with the intelligence given to us - a concept that some people worship. that is, if you believe science can replace God.

there is so much more that i am amazed. billions of people, over thousands of years, could only comprehend only a bit of what was created. remember: science is not a god that can replace God. science is a concept to show us there is a God, and to show us that we, are not God.

i just learnt a lesson on the last day of my exams. not exactly learn, maybe reminded and having the idea knocked into my head.

so this is what happened. i had my exams, and just finished it. i had 4 modules, and so had to take 4 papers. the last paper was supposed to be the easiest paper, and the paper i had the most confident in. the thing is, i did not aim to score, i only aimed to pass. call me unambitious, whatever. i do not have the habit of studying way before the main exams and always had to cramp everything in at the last minute. and naturally what people would do is to - ? spot topics. of course.

so i spotted topics. my friends too. we were part time students. we work in the day and study in the night. we had no time like the full time students to study whole day. when we had free time we want to rest, we do not want to study, which explains why we cramp everything in at the last minute. this is not an excuse. i admit i am lazy.

so we spot topics. it was risky. i remember my friend telling me not to study a certain topic because she could not do it. she told me if i were to understand it it would be very easy. but she could not understand it, and she told me not to study. that was the day before the exams. to be more specific, the time which she told me that was less than 24 hours before the exam start. and can you believe it, we were still spotting and deciding which topic to study as backup. we had prepared that in the event the topics we predicted did not come out we need to have a backup plan. but the problem is, i had heard her wrongly. i heard it as - study that topic because it is easy.

on that day of exam, i got a shock when i see the paper. the questions i predicted did not come out as many as i expected. note that i had aimed to pass, not to score. which means if i spot wrong topics there is a high chance i would fail. i spot 4 topics, it came out only 1. the other 1 was a backup topic i had prepared but i was not confident in. and you know what? the only topic i spotted correctly, i forgot how to do it!!!! that exact question appeared in the prelims, with only the numbers changed. this was a question where everything else is the same except for the numbers and the 'situation' given in the question. and this was the topic i had prepared for. and i could not do it. can you imagine how i felt?

i turned on to the last page to look at the question. there it was, the easiest question of the paper. and you know what? a second shock. this was the topic my friend told me not to study because it was hard. i had heard wrongly and studied it. and for the topic i spent less than a day preparing for, it was really a miracle i could do ALL the sub-questions in that topic.

before the exam, i had slacked a bit. i was really in no mood to study. i had stayed at home and studied every free time i got. why? because of last minute cramping. that happened for about 3 months. work, study, work, study. i got sick of it and did not want to study for the last paper which was my most confident paper. i knew i could not be complacent. i tried to force myself to study, telling myself to be humble. sometimes i did manage to study sometimes i don't. be humble, i tell myself. the body do not follow the mind. is that an excuse? i don't know.

and on that day, it further knocked into me the need to be humble. the question i did in prelims, the question i spot for, i had forgot how to do. the question my friend asked me not to do and which i heard wrong, i could do it. now, is there such a co-incidence? i believe it is a lesson God gave me. a lesson which i do not need to learn the hard way. i think i should be able to pass. but... be humble. i hope to pass.

moral of the story? even in the confident situations, there are things that could go wrong. unexpected help could also come. never be complacent. be humble always. i used to pray that God would help me pass my exams. but from 3 years ago, i had started praying that God will give me the results He deemed fit, but i added that i hope to pass, if it is not against His will. but in actual fact, what i think i should do is to study hard and get everything in, and then let Him decide to let me pass or not, instead of being on the verge of failing and then letting Him decide. haix, but i am lazy. will i change? i don't know. if you read all the way to here and still do not understand what i am talking about, then remember this one thing - be humble at all times. you won't want to regret.