Truth and Dinosaurs

Do you remember the outcry from some people when NASA officially stated that Pluto was no longer a planet in our solar system? There were online petitions and media outrage from those in the science and other communities that disagreed with NASA. There were even several facebook pages dedicated for Pluto as the true 9^th planet. Well, science has done it again. Some paleontologists have decided to state that your childhood three-horned dinosaur, the Triceratops, never existed the same way we thought it was. Now a lot of dinosaur fanatics and Triceratops fans had posted their outrage about this discovery. Believe it or not, these researchers and their research do not have the full support from most of their colleagues.To give you a brief info about the situation, some scientists compared the skeleton of the Triceratops to another animal, Torosaurus. The animals look similar but they believed that the Triceratops is the “teenager” form for Torosaurus by its frill size. What people and I would complain about is not just about the erasing the existence of our image of Triceratops but what I found that the Triceratops is larger in size than Torosaurus. How is a juvenile form larger than the adult?

A report like this has to remind me that scientific findings are fallible and is susceptible to change, though we live in a culture that constantly remind us to give full reverence to the name of science. Science is just made up of discovered data and knowledge that is discovered so far. But the data and knowledge we obtained is always changing. Who knows what science will change that many believed to be true because science in the past stated it was true. Trusting only science can shatter a person’s view on life since science is not immune to change and may convince some to believe that science is evident for existence of only subjective truth with denial of absolute truth.

When it comes to Name of God and Jesus, our culture demands that we have to question the existence or need for God or Jesus and we are encouraged to discredit because of faith is considered as pseudoscience. Yet, time after time science changes in order to adapt with compromises for the sake of easy living and adaption for society. Biblical scripture is never supposed to change or compromise for the sake of adaption with society. It remains the same for giving the same message of love, responsibility, need of a Savior which is constantly needed in any society and century. The words can be translated or updated and still try to remain faithful at the same time. There is place in this world for usage of both science and scripture. Science may change but we need it to understand how things work and be able to live a better physical life while we need Biblical scripture to be able to moral judgment, be able to be tolerant properly, and have a better spiritual life.

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