Science and Faith

They are not natural enemies, nor were they ever meant to be .... True, for a time when Faith was strong, Science was bound, cowed, driven down-- until Science began its growth spurt: by leaps it enlarged, pulsing, tumescent, fed by Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Pasteur, Madame Curie and sweet old Einstein... then came Oppenheimer with his Big Bomb. Now Faith is scorned by most scientists, an unreasoning as they see it-- closing their minds as tightly shut as did the padres of the Inquisition: they worship Reason, whilst claiming believers drown in imagination, fantasies-- a Big Guy God, a soaring soul? Show me! Prove it! they shout out like excitable children. 'Reason be all!', they exclaim fervently--yet... yet sweet Science grew on the strong back of Imagination, and real Faith loves Reason like a sister, for we are the seeing ones, and we are also the blind ones-- every single one of us.... We may hear God's whispers but then are often deaf to the pleas of angels. And what we think we know is never, never enough-- we are always left wanting....So we can repair a torn and damaged heart but cannot open it to love's incessant pulling....