Many of you may have recently been watching the BBC programme Wonders of The Universe with Brian Cox. Many of you may also be able to make sense of it a bit more if only the man spoke a little faster. The programme has arisen alot of conflict between science and spirituality, questions have been asked and answered only to bring up more questions and its television viewing time seems to almost purposely fit right in with the Sunday-night-after-dinner family discussions, creating heated debates. As if there isn't enough 'why are we here' questions being flung across the dining room table anyway.
Spirituality is something I have believed in ever since I was a little girl, having been brought up in an Italian family with peasant roots, great believers in the afterlife and many other witchcraft tricks of the trade. Me, my sisters, my mother, my grandmother and my grandmother's sisters have all had paranormal experiences which are entirely unexplainable. There are no physical or logical explanations as to why they occured, which baffled alot of people. But does that mean we're liars? Or that we're crazy? Or attention seeking? Scientists are strong believers that there's life on other planets and infinite universes out there, they're convinced infact, however, they have no 'scientific proof' or evidence that it's true, yet they are continually trying to communicate with other beings in space. In that case, why do they then completely choose to be ignorant and entirely deny the fact we have a soul, that there is an afterlife, that there are such things as spirits? They have no scientific proof of either of the two, however they refuse to believe that humans are more than just a bunch of elements bundled together to create walking, talking, breathing, sensing, feeling robots.
I was reading the BBC Focus magazine today, a magazine about science and facts. It had an article on the BBC programme 'Wonders of the universe' and answers to questions about the universe that the public had submitted. The way in which the responses contradicted themselves was unreal and I noticed about 5 examples throughout the article. For example, one question was 'why is the sky dark at night?' The answer went on to explain that the universe is infinite and forever expanding, therefore there is not an edge and there will never be a wall at the end of it all. In a later question another reader asked 'what shape is the universe?' and the answer suggested it was either a sphere or doughnut shape, a ring with a hole in the middle. Now, correct me if I'm wrong and not thinking scientifically into this, but surely if the universe was doughnut shaped, being 3-d, there would be an empty space in the middle, which does create an edge/wall, completely contradicting the answer they had given in a previous question.
Asking questions and receiving answers, debating a subject which has no answer may seem a compeltely pointless excercise in a world full of mysteries, but what really is wrong and undermining is the fact that science is all about evidence and proof, yet they continually seem to contradict themselves. Keeping all this in mind, and then denying the fact there is an afterlife and trying to prove those who believe in religion and spirituality wrong with so called 'proof' is wrong in itself. Accusing people who have imaginations, people who are capable of thinking outside the box and people with a creative mind of being un-intelligent and irrational thinkers is unfair and ridding people of their faith and beliefs with 'evidence' that seemingly doesn't make sense. And if their evidence doesn't make sense yet only proves to an entire community of spiritual believers that what they are saying is contradictory, how can what scientists believe in make sense and what we believe in be completely irrational?
Being told you are going to become nothing when you die, that you will rot in the earth and never see your loved ones again is a disgusting and upsetting thought, and conspiracy theories are created and spread throughout society to make people feel more positive about the fact they physically won't be around forever. But one single person claiming they have seen with their own eyes a spirit who has been dead 100 years is enough proof in my opinion to convince an entire culture that there is an afterlife. So why are there more believers in contradictory scientists who have no seeing proof that there's a 'never ending, no wall-ed, doughnut shaped' universe?
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