Science vs. Religion

The science vs. religion debate is like a round of wrestling in the WWF: we don't like to talk about it, we may even actively avoid it, but eventually our channel changer somehow brings us tirelessly back to watching the ostentatious display of brawns, poorly executed dialogue, and shimmering shaved bodies going at it in a disappointingly non-sexual way (I just imagined Jesus and Satan in the ring: Jesus takes two chairs and multiplies them to bitch-slap the 5,000).

So imagine my surprise when cruising past Catholic University the other day and coming upon Maloney Hall, the building of the Department of Chemistry.

It made me wonder: why can't we all just get along??? Let's consider the similarities between science and religion:
-Gathering data: form hypothesis and test it vs. drown women to see if they are witches.
-Arguing evidence: critiques in journals and publications vs. burning people at the stake.

OK ... maybe there are some differences. But before we start splitting atoms from Adams, let's examine the scientific contributions Christianity has made to the world:
-Changing physical properties of matter: water into wine
-Defying the laws of gravity: walking on water (perhaps they had drunk too much wine and were really just standing in a puddle of their own urine?)

So what does the Chemistry Department at C.U. do, then? Shed light on this ongoing debate to further educate the masses on the symbiotic relationship between science and god?

A quote from a sample comp exam file found on their website: "The purpose of this study was to identify the number of protonic sites and characterize their role in catalysis by thrombin in the hydrolysis of chromogenic substrates that contain some of the P1-P3 specificity sites."

Thats right CU, you show those atheists what's up.