Comparing God, Science And Imagination By Wendell Berry

In Wendell Berry’s “God, Science and Imagination,” Berry criticizes Steven Weinberg’s essay “Without God.” Steven Weinberg’s essay talks about the non-existence of God. While Weinberg explains why God does not exist, Berry points out all of the flaws in Weinberg’s essay. Berry argues that Weinberg had no proof that God did not exist. He points out that scientists are supposed to observe and experiment in order to obtain facts. Weinberg has never met or observed God and yet he is claiming God does not exist. Berry states that no one has ever met God, but people believe God exists. In Jane Goodall’s “In the Forests of Gombe,” she travels to the beautiful forests of Gombe to explore chimpanzees. She watches over the chimpanzees that she has been

Some people believe that only religion is right. They put their faith towards God for all of the answers in life. The people that only think religion is right is because they are narrow minded. Religion is the belief and worshipping of a higher power or a supernatural being like God. Jane Goodall, the author of “In the Forests of Gombe,” was raised as a Christian. Jane Goodall says, “Fortunately, by the time I got to Cambridge I was twenty-seven years old and my beliefs had already been molded so that I was not influenced by [other scientists] opinions” (145). She says that since she was raised as a Christian, she did not agree with scientists who were either atheist or agnostic. Goodall has also experienced an epiphany which reaffirmed her views on Christianity. The epiphany happened when she was in the forests. After the death of her husband, Derek, she travels to the forests of Gombe. She says that she was “lost in awe at the beauty around [her]” (Goodall 147). Goodall slipped into a state of heightened awareness and that is when she experienced the epiphany. She also says, “It is hard… to put into words the moment of truth that suddenly came upon [her] then” (Goodall 147). The epiphany was so beautiful that she could not describe anything she felt, sensed, saw, heard, or touched. There are some people who are called religious fundamentalists. They have a strict sense of

It can also be opinionated. Scientists observe and experiment in order to prove or disprove something. Religionists only have to believe and put faith into God. Sometimes religion and science are exclusive to each other because they have a different perspective on certain topics. For example, scientists claim that it was the Big Bang that created the universe. In Jane Goodall’s, In the Forests of Gombe, she says, “It was not some intangible God who created the universe, [scientists] argue, it was the Big Bang Theory. Scientists believe that the universe started out as a single singularity and over billions of years, the universe was created. Religionists believe that God created the universe. The Bible reads, “ In the beginning, when God created the universe, the earth was formless… And so the whole universe was completed; By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working… And that is how the universe was created” (Genesis 1-2). Religionists believe that the universe was created in seven days because that is what the Bible says. There are some people who have a strict set of principles and they are called fundamentalists. There are scientific fundamentalists and religious fundamentalists. Their beliefs are very extreme. Wendell says, “They all seek power-- they seek victory,in fact-- by abandoning the properties that