Atheism is a fast spreading concept in the world today. It may be because people don’t want to have anything holding them back from what they want to do; therefore they don’t want to believe in a supreme being that wants them to live their life a certain way. Or maybe it is because they can’t see how one being could create this earth and the wonderful things on it.

This may be part of the reason scientists and those who believe completely in science only think the way they do. They don’t want to admit or have a belief in a God because they want science to explain everything. Knowing how things work described in a scientific way gives them comfort to know they may have control over what happens and it’s not all up to the Supreme Being they would believe in.

Although the concept that science can explain everything may be comforting or logical, believing that a God created the earth and how things work within it can give more meaning to life and give us something to believe in after death.

In an article that can be found at http://www.asa3.org/archive/asa/200011/0161.html by Freeman Dyson called, “Science and Religion can work together” he says:

“Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of modern science, was the smartest man of his time, with the possible exception of William Shakespeare. Bacon saw clearly what science could do, and what science could not do. He is saying to the philosophers and theologians of his time: look for God in the facts of nature, not in the theories of Plato and Aristotle. I am saying to modern scientists and theologians: don't imagine that our latest ideas about the Big Bang or the human genome have solved the mysteries of the universe, or the mysteries of life. Here are Bacon's words again: ‘The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.’”

So even though science may be able to explain many things, religion can give us meaning to life and look at the facts of nature with a different view.