Are they different? Are they two equally viable alternatives to the same problem?
Cerro San Cristóbal, Santiago, Chile Nov 2003
On the large hill overlooking the city of Santiago de Chile that is Cerro San Cristóbal sits a statue of the Virgin together with a tall radio mast. Most photographs I've seen try to cut out the later, but the juxtaposition of the two has much to say. Here we have two pillars of society occupying the same ground—religion and science/ technological progress.
In this image I see two icons reaching out to the masses, each positioned close to the heavens both theological and celestial. Some worship one, some worship the other. Others see them as alternative but compatible solutions to the same problem: understanding our universe and believing in our role within it.
While in Chile I read a novel by Brown called "Angels and Demons" which, although fiction, contained some enlightening observations on the differences and similarities between religion and science. In reflecting on these ideas I scribbled a note to myself that read:
Religion is too old to believe. Science is too young to understand.
In other words, religion has perhaps become too established in its ways to have faith in the ability of science to provide part answers to the Big Questions. Likewise, science is perhaps too naive to comprehend that uncertainty is sometimes not enough; that proof does not always substitute for the security of conviction.
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