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When Science and Religion Collide

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For centuries, two worlds have argued with their philosophies of the universe: religion and science.  Religion Don’t get me wrong, I agree with both sides of this continuously ongoing story. My parents argue sometimes about these theories, my mom on the religion side, and my dad on the science side. Mom’s a Maronite, which is catholic. She does somehow believe in science though, which is fair enough. Dad, however, is an Orthodox. He would consider himself an atheist because of his scientific beliefs. Now let’s get to the most basic thing the religious and scientists argued about: the creation of the universe. The religion side says that a spiritual being named God created the planets in a week (they actually just said the Earth, Sun, and Moon), with one day of rest which is now known as “Sunday” or the day religious go to the church for mass. The science side, nevertheless, says that the universe was created by a massive explosion called the “Big Bang”, which spilled all