On Faith and Science

We are inquisitive creatures, we humans. We want to know how things work, what's over the horizon, why are we here, what's for dinner. So many questions. The answers we find come from two complementary yet competitive areas: Science and Faith, the Yin and Yang of human understanding.

Science explains the explainable, Faith the unexplainable. But there is no fixed line between explainable and not; rather we have a shifting grey area. In earlier times we may have believed that the lights in the night sky were the glowing eyes of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but eventually science stepped in and introduced the concept of stars. But stars raise their own questions, are there other planets circling those stars? Are their other beings on them? What are they having for dinner?

And the grey area between science and faith continued to shift.

Science accepts and probably forces this shifting. It builds upon itself, constantly probing and refuting it's own precepts. Faith does not have this luxury. By it's very nature it cannot shift or bend. Explanations are Articles Of Faith. They are because they are, and they are not open to negotiation.