Miranda, Jemuelzon D.

HUMANITIES Arellano University

WED (5:30-8:30) BS Nursing

1.Many people believe that the Earth and all the creatures in it were created by God. Although most religions have creation stories as part of their beliefs, those who refer to themselves as Creationists are mainly fundamental Protestant Christians. These Creationists believe the version of creation found in the Bible in the book of Genesis. In this account, God created the Universe, including the Earth and all the creatures in it, in seven days. Most Creationists believe this means seven twenty-four hour days. Other Christians and Jews believe the seven days symbolize periods that lasted much longer.I believe in Biblical Theory because this theory states that the earth is created by God as explained in the book of Genesis. In religion of faith, you are there because you put your whole heart into what you are believing, you do not care if some of the orders of thing is not what you would think they would be, but somewhere inside of yourself you just know that what you are believing is true. If one is believer in this theory a possible argument would be that God was the light because several times in the bible he is referred to as the light of the world. It is proven because aside from the bible that genesis written from the facts. If God where to lie about this that would mean that the whole bible is not true. This theory is mostly based off of your religion. Those who have a faith believe and trust in the bible but those who dont come up with these other theories. Rather than having life begin in very simple forms proteins, bacteria, algae, etc., and then gradually evolve into more complex forms, the theory of creation says that creatures started out as distinct and separate organisms when God created them. Although these distinct creatures have the capability to adapt to their surroundings to a certain extent, Creationists do not believe that they change into completely different and distinct animals through evolution. For example, Creationists do not believe that single-celled organisms evolved into more complex plants and animals, finally culminating in modern Homo Sapiens. Creationists are among the harshest critics of the theory of evolution. They have been instrumental in pointing out weaknesses in the scientific evidence. 2. I grew up with the impression that science and religion were incompatible. Maybe it was because I went to Catholic school, and my religion teacher thought I was trying to be sarcastic when I asked things like, "If the pope is infallible, why did he say that Galileo was wrong about

the sun being the center of the universe?". When she answered, "Because the pope didn't know any better", I said, "Isn't he supposed to know better if he's the pope?", and the teacher told me to stop asking dumb questions and said we'd get into it later (which of course we never did). So out of fear of flunking fifth grade religion AND science, I adopted the policy that what was taught in Science class applied only to science, and ditto for Religion. Nine years later, I realize that maybe my questions weren't so dumb. Some people spend their lives trying to bring out the similarities between religion and science, while others spend their lives trying to tear the two apart. For my paper, I wanted to explore possible reasons why these two opposing sides have never been able to find common ground enough to unite upon. One reason religion is unwilling to familiarize itself with science because science offers simple, valid, irrefutable and, above all, logical explanations for some of the "miracles" described in holy books. The Nile, for example, is known to turn red when it is overgrown with bacteria. Sorry, Moses. Carbon dating of fossils tells us that there was life on this planet long before the estimated time of the creation of Adam and Eve. Sorry, God. You can see where the religious leaders might get a little worried that their congregations would begin to fall away from the belief that an invisible man in the sky makes miracles happen, if too many explanations which appeal to their more rational way of thinking were to come up. There are those, of course, who would argue that the Torah and the Bible are not meant to be taken literally but figuratively; that Adam and Eve are representative of all men and women, that the story of the Creation in seven "days" it meant to be a more figurative term for a longer amount of time (substitute the word "eon" for "day" in the Creation story and you'll get what I mean). That's nice and all, but it begs the question, where does the line between figurative and literal translations end? For example, the story of Esther, which, as opposed to some other stories in the Bible, is very specific when it comes to times, dates, names and places - not only that, but the story is historically supported as it is written. Should we apply the figurative translation to something which is so obviously meant literally? Of course not. So when does the figurative translation end and the literal begin? This is one question which scientists and theologians still have not been able to come up with a satisfactory answer to. Another difference which I have found between science and religion is the definition of "truth".

3. In 3000 AD, the aliens will have made contact; United Earth will be a member of Galactic Congress, with serving representatives on the Capital Planet in another Galactic Arm. Venus and Mars will have been moved into the Habitable Zone and will be terraformed, with many colonists. We will have been awarded the five habitable planets revolving around Sirius, and the one revolving around Barnard's Star, and there will be colonists there too. Advanced technology will allow us to manufacture food made from rocks. All work will be done by robots, humans will devote their time to science and the arts. There will only be one race, and harmony will prevail. Dreams will be able to be recorded, and people will create artistic works with their thoughts. A modified Esperanto will be the one language, and there will be one religion called Belief System. People will be happy, they won't be able to understand how we were able to live like this. Clothing that revolutionize the future. Clothing will be made of fibres that interact with the human body that connects to a monitoring system via nano at another location that operates a monitoring station. The clothing will also monitor the bodys responses via nano and makes suitable adjustments. This regulates the bodys temperatures and makes viable adjustment to comfort the body in even the most extreme environments. This will also give an alarm when the bodys in a critical state and communicate with other nano particles inside the body to heal tissues and repair them within seconds. The clothing will be a light weight material and will be worn by most individuals. Nano will rule the clothing industry. My guess is that we will be able to travel thru our solar system and maybe two or three others. We will obtain time travel via the speed of light. We will have A.I unit robots and true virtual reality (like the Matrix only we are not slaves). There will still be war but less death because we fight using non A.I robots and mechas(the teleportation system in effect). There is the likely possibility of diplomatic relations with other worlds. We will have energy beam weapons(as an example light sabers and lasers and proton cannons). We will buy things via something better than the internet on (or in) something better than a computer and Ebay will have moved. We will fix the Earths population by living in under water houses and floating houses (the teleportation system still in effect) and moving to other planets inside our solar system via teraforming and atmosphere creation. My predictions for the year 3000 are that no more poverty, racism, and stress will occur in the entire world. Retail department stores sell mini cars for toddlers to drive independently on the roads. All of the elementary and secondary schools for children to learn subjects will have robotic teachers to teach them math, reading and writing lessons in their classrooms.