Science or God?

Growing up I never fully understood what being a Catholic meant. Nor knew that there was so many different religious group and some having similar beliefs with one another. The concept of learning about a God and the religious beliefs within the Catholic doctrine, was sometimes confusing to understand. I never noticed that the more questions I had about the Catholic doctrine, the more things I was learning and the more I was being pulled into believing in what I do now. Having curiosity and questions in mind, was key to knowing my faith. I am a strong believer of a God and all the sacred words that there is in the Holy Bible, yet I had and still have challenges faced me that put my faith at challenge. This started ever since my junior year of high school.

There are many concepts within science that go against religious beliefs. In the science field, I had been told that we come from apes and that from there we evolved. That’s the moment when it hit me hard. Yes, sure, according to science there is historical and scientific data that supports that idea of were we came from, but I just don’t agree with it. The moment I started questing myself about that, I began seeking for an answer within the Catholic doctrine in reading scriptures in the Bible, talking to the priest in my parish, and my parents trying to find an answer to my question of “where we come from?”. I was desperate seeking for evidence, I wanted to know the correct answer to my question. As human beings we want to physically see evidence to believe and get all the doubts we have, taken out of us. And obviously, science has those evidence we want to see, although not all. When something can’t be fully explained in a scientific way, that’s when our faith plays the role, and this goes back and forth with so many other concepts as well.

Science and God is something that we see conflicting a lot, and as a result puts religious groups into challenge or other individuals who don’t identify with a religious group. The point that I am trying to give is that now days, we have become center into science and slowly putting faith aside, something that we don’t always see like we do with science. We tend to put that “trust” into science and because of that lose trust when science can’t fully explain everything, and all because we want to see evidence. Although, God and science can work together in a way. My question is, can it be possible that if science comes from history and all those people being smart enough to find whatever, be something that can be wrong? Just because they were the ones building upon ideas, theories, etc., and then making it public to others and future generations to know?