Frustration With Faith

When you consider the question of God should you consider Him/Her/It purely out of the logic of your own mind or are you going to take a systematic approach to understanding all the different aspects of His (for simplicities sake) creation?  

If your answer is yes, and if you did answer yes you would find me in agreement with you, Biology becomes the most sensible Theology possible.  Yet no one has taken a systematic approach to translating the body of knowledge the science of Biology has generated so far into Theological framework.  

Of course, to a certain extent science is unsuited to be placed in a Theological frame work.  Science simply states what it knows while carefully (sometimes obnoxiously carefully) not making assumptions about what it does not know.  For theology when data runs out, parable steps in.  

Thus making a theology out of biology would be difficult because the doctrine would have to be in a constant state of flux.  It would not give its adherents the rock solid foundation of commandments written in stone or those works handed down from on high.

Still because of the transient nature of a scientific appreciation for God’s glory it would be very difficult to convince the masses, who typically want a neatly bulleted religion with all of the mysteries cordoned off behind velvet curtains with serious looking men standing by to assure them that everything is fine, please don’t look behind the curtain.  No, the masses would be very hard to convince that a realistic approach to the divine - though harder in general, would pay dividends orders of magnitude greater than those which we reap from current yet ancient religions.

I would ask those masses if a farmer would plant his crop in the same way that a pre-agricultural revolution farmer plant his crop?  Would a farmer plant his crop as a pre-industrial revolution farmer?  Does an engineer build in the same exploratory manner of the men of the middle ages, or even the great feats of the Ancient Egyptians?  Would you go to the library and search through mountains of micro-film when you could just do a Google search instead?

Yet so many follow doctrines, good enough in their times, yet thousands of years old.  Updates more drastic than modern translations are needed.  The journey into a spiritual life is as necessary today as it was a hundred, thousand, or ten thousand years ago.  Science and the language that it has generated carefully calculated to not overstate its own data is the gateway into a modern spirituality beyond that of new age.  I know I’m not the first to say, though I hope throughout my life time to develop the base of knowledge necessary to lay the foundation of this ambitious goal.