The article by Robin Henig was very interesting from my view point. I was brought up Catholic and never questioned why religion was and has been around for hundreds of years. I never wondered why it was first created because for me it was just as it was. My religion nether hindered my survival nor facilitated it, it was just kind of another thing I did ever Sunday. But reading this article made me think about it more and question why things are the way the are. It seemed right that there the reason religion stated was to help survival. This is when I became interested and then, other scientific reasoning proposed made a lot of sense. On the other hand I still wanted to believe as I did before. This is when the whole article came together for me and said “ Why wouldn’t God design us in such a way as to find belief in divinity quite natural.”(Barett 78) This made complete sense to me and gave closer to the article but then it made me think back about Gennesis which I have just read.
When I grew up I just accepted things such as Genesis and the other stories and listened to Gospels about them connecting them to life now but never dealt with the truthfulness or symbolic nature of them at all. I always just took the stories as they were even though in the back of my head I didn’t truly believe their entirety. The is no way the being as scientist such as my self could just believe that God created ever thing in six days. But looking at it the way that Justin Barett does it would make sense that God created the world using the big bang and he is behind all of the scientific reasoning that we have today. The question for me now is, is there true science or is God just letting us in on the way he has created the world and made things work previously.
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