I personally feel that religious belief, to a certain extent, it irrational. Rational, is defined as something based on or in accordance with reason or logic. However, there are many instances in people’s religious beliefs that goes against this rationality because of claims that were made, to me, were without reason. A lot of claims were not based on evidence or by modern standards, are deemed impossible. Here is an example. Genesis gives us the dimensions of Noah’s Ark to be “… three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.”* And this ark was used to store “… seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female...”.* Logically, the ark constructed should not be able to fit in that sheer number of animals! Furthermore, it was stated that rain on the earth will fall for forty days and forty nights, and every living creature made will be wiped from the earth. Granted, we have not deciphered a lot of the mysteries on earth yet, we still haven’t found evidence of this huge flood that wiped out the existence of all the living creatures on earth.
Religious beliefs generally lack evidence to back them up, and I feel that a lot of it are presented in such a way that it is emotionally comforting, to know that there is a higher power protecting you or to use it as a reason for things happening. But another reasoning can be argued against this. It may be such that humans have a rational need to make explain our world. The religious ‘truth’ may in fact be a distinct kind of truth from the truth discovered by science. When things cannot be answered by science, religion kicks in and provides an acceptable answer.
In that case, science and religion may just simply address distinct spheres of human experience. In other words, human rationality and belief may be divided into two distinct ‘spheres’: logical and...