This was shared in institute last week. Unfortunately I cannot recall who it was attributed to.
This is so much my feeling and belief for years.
My biology professor freshman year started off the semester by explaining to us what he felt a proper mentality towards science was. He drew a line on the board and wrote "God" on one end and "science" on the other. He then said that anyone who believed in only one end of this spectrum was nuts (extremists at either end). We should believe in both, that God created the universe and that he uses the laws and principles that govern it.
Without delving deeper than is necessary, I believe that God is a scientist and that any discrepancies between religion and science are our own fault. Eventually we'll have a clear understanding of how science and it's laws are exploited by God.
Interesting fact: in the Bahá'i Faith they believe that true science and true religion can never be in conflict. The principle states that truth is one, and therefore true science and true religion must be in harmony, rejecting the view that science and religions are in conflict. Neat-o.
You might also find some of these things that Einstein said interesting:
- I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
- Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
And finally, something from the Book of Mormon. "Thou hast had signs enough . . . and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator" (Alma 30:44).
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