What Happens When This Student is Asked About Hell Will Blow You Away
by Richard Rowe
America
is a divided nation; the "melting pot of the world" was always destined
to be. Divided by race and ethnicity, religion and education,
perspective and opinion, the United States is a place of internal
conflict almost by definition. You'd think, though, that some things
would be beyond matters of opinion and faith, not subject to the whims
of faith and personal perspective.
Science
and religion are two sides of the same coin, opposite approaches in the
pursuit of greater truth. They are as closely linked and derived from
one another as Islam is from Judaism...and just as often in conflict.
Education is the Palestine of science and religion, a border town
between both worlds, often caught in the ideological crossfire, left
cratered and decrepit because of it.
In
a few weeks, Bill Nye, defender of evolution in schools and evolution
opponent Ken Ham will have a frustrating and one-sided debate on whether or not Creationism is a viable model of origins, and whether or not it should be taught in schools.
Will
it resolve anything? Sure, the day there's lasting peace in Palestine.
But, in the meantime, we've got a bit of a laugh in the form of an
answer reportedly given by a student at Arizona State University. What
happens in this writer's mind when science fires a rocket into
religion's territory? Predictably, all Hell breaks loose.
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