"But we humans seem to posses a deep longing to find truth, even though that longing is easily suppressed by the mundane details of daily life"-Francis Collins (The Language of God)
This has to be one of my favorite recent quotes I have found! I read this book over the summer that deals with the correlation between science and religion. Most people have a perspective that science and religion are at different ends of the spectrum; much like angry sisters that never talk to each other unless forced to during family reunions. Since I am a science major (…cough…Biology) and my faith is very important, the combination of the two really interested me. The author of the book is the head scientist who led the sequencing of the Human Genome Project (huge scientific milestone!) yet he is a strong Christian. He states this quote near the beginning of the book, and I think it’s so applicable and helps calm the “ongoing feud” between science and religion. They both seek truth whether it is through experimental methods of trial and error in science or through the longing of the heart and mind in religious matters. Science seeks the answer to how questions and the religion picks up where science cannot go answering the why questions. We all seek truth and the beauty of it is that it can be found harmoniously in both science and religion. I guess it can be said that the service I do is my own scientific method of seeking that truth. I do office projects, interact with patients, ask questions and find information about Hospice as an experimental method of finding the social problems that I would otherwise not understand in hopes to one day contribute to a solution. My faith helps me answer the questions that my experience cannot. The hardest question of why people are suffering can only be answered in the comforting arms of my faith.
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