07 Jun 2009 |
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Of atheism, god and ‘our’ confusion. On radio. Radio, the good old medium that is probably mal-aligned by the seeming endless stream of new-day technologies, has always been my favourite tool for keeping entertained and informed. For one thing, radio is not obtrusive while I type away at the workstation; For another, you get the right mix of music, sports, phone-in, and a huge variety of hosts. boring and intelligent ones. For the other, you are not oppressed with the explosive mis(use) of cleavages and totally immune to reality celebrity crap… Its output reaches you by engaging only a single channel of your mental sensors, while giving you the freedom to lock your thinking facility to the one-way broadcast at will, or focus on the inevitable task of living, working, sleeping or dreaming as the clock ticks by. Some months back, the following discussion got going on my favourite radio channel - BBC 5 live, but I was only able to record the essential parts. It was a discussion about the (dis)connection between atheism, science, and a g(G)od. Listening to the snippet, as I compose this, the ultimate conclusion is that this topic confuses. And I say that not as atheist, but one who questions the veracity of the various propositions of God. One who also question the desperation of evolution. And of course, the docility of “somebody here will pass his WAEC next year, my jet-flying daddy says as we trick ourselves somewhere in Lagos… Why make it so complex, if not pointless, that we may understand this, and not have to scientifically establish it ? The most interesting poser on the show: a texter had suggested that, of the greater majority of science teachers she knows, the physicists are the most religious…. And the atheist, accepts that there is a sense of awe, that science confronts, each turn of the long road to the truth - Is there a god? Can g(G)od, religion, science ever stop leaving us confused? What is the ideal that you subscribe to? Is it that of Richard Bacon – the radio host – that the idea that someone created the universe and us, is utterly rubbish? Or That of the interviewee – a scientist/atheist- that such idea is unsatisfactory ? Richard’s summarisation of our efforts at replicating brain functionalities, at the level of robots, is clear and unmistakable. Pathetic. I do personally hold, that the incessant questioning of the whys, hows, and ifs that this topic forces on you can only lead one to the path, the ultimate light, where you accept the things you cannot change, appreciate the beauty of that, that we won’t explain, while you create that which we are capable of… and ultimately see the difference. No wonder, Albert Einstein, one of the greatest as we have been told, once said “before God, we are all equally wise - equally foolish”. ‘He’ is a confused man… ‘Dapo Osewa. Ostudiolabs.
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