Science needs religion to be meaningful

SCMP Education Mailbag - (Feb 21, 2009)

It is so sad to read the comments claiming that education should not allow teaching our kids that there is a God.

Science is the source of God's creation. We have a world like a big ship that has been rotating for a million years perfectly and protected amazingly. It is not coincidence or luck that all creatures and phenomena work in harmony and great co-operation, from sun and sunlight to the oxygen factory of trees on the Earth.

Or just consider our castle-like bodies, with all parts co-operating in perfect harmony from the lungs, heart and blood to the tongue, stomach and liver, which are all controlled by brain.

The whole universe is a book of science required to be read with the guidance of its source, religion, to be meaningful.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

RICHARD AZIZ BUTT,

Tsim Sha Tsui