God

As far as I remember, God, the super-natural’s existence and whereabouts never did appear in my entire schooling. It never confused me that at school Darwin took credit to explaining evolution while at home Brahma, the Creator, was behind intelligent design. Either I could clearly separate theology from science in my young mind, or, I was just incapable of such deep thinking. I was independently presented with the concept of evolution versus that of intelligent design. And the choice didn’t have to be mutually exclusive.

An amusing battle rages in America over the question of separating church and state and of introducing the conjecture of “intelligent design” in the schools. Some things we can never do in a clear fashion. At least not yet and one such is keeping the state free of religion. It is probably because we have gotten so used to ruling over the sheep by telling them each night that they better behave or else the wolf would come get them. But one thing we can do is to keep science and religion separate and do a favour to the future generations. It’s absurd to talk of God’s hand or leg in creation in school unless it is presented in a separate setting like theology or philosophy class and includes a mandatory disclaimer that the ideas presented are the author’s alone and stand as long as another idea doesn’t demolish the former.

Let us look at the Judiciary and the potential confusion God can create there. I came across this paragraph in a Service Level Agreement of a certain company.



How can you have such abstract concepts like “Act of God” in a legally binding SLA? If I do contest a case and the crux of it comes down to defining “Act of God” how would the judiciary be able to do this in a “fair” and “just” manner?

Ok, God may be omnipresent. Doesn’t mean you go and introduce him everywhere and anywhere just to prove your point! Let’s leave him out of some places – starting from SLAs, Constitutions and Club Momo.

Iyer