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Scopes Monkey Trail

A group of scientists got together and decided that mankind had come a long way and no longer needed God. They picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they no longer needed Him. The scientist walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We are able to clone people and do other miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost." God listened patiently to the man and after the scientist had finished talking, God replied, "Very well, if you think you no longer need Me how about this? Let's have a man making contest." The scientist replied, "OK, great!" But God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam." The scientist confidently responded, "Sure, no problem." He bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt. God lovingly looked at him, grinned, and said, "No! You get your own dirt!" Just as the scientist was blind to the fact that there would have been no science without God, we realize that religion cannot be explained without the help of science. In other words, science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.Without God science would never have started. There are too many holes in the story of evolution for it to be believable without adding in divine intervention at some point. It is a far stretch to say that Humans, the most complex things on the face of the earth, evolved from a simple singled-celled organisms. Without some place where God comes in and breaths life into the human, there is no way it is possible.In the same way, science is the main area where humans have the freedom to think and explore the nature of everything from human origin to the composition of the atom. Religion must also realize that science gives us a lot. The people in the Scopes Monkey trial were unwilling to accept science as a way to explain the origin of the human species. I don’t think that the teacher’s goal was to turn his pupil...

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