A Paradoxical Kind of Logic

Poets adore paradoxies. Oxymorons. Two words than cannot resolve themselves with each other. Somehow, that kind of impossibility lets them express the torture happening inside their head, or whatever.

Burning ice.
Dryest rain.
Beggarly riches.

Somehow, Religion and Science don't seem to fit into the depth that the above present for contemplation. Religion and Science are just two different ways of looking at the world. They don't need reconciliation or to hold hands and dance, they just need to peacefully coexist. So why is it that people have such trouble understanding both, and accepting both, equally?

Religion is illogical. It requires blind faith and the total trust that your fate is in someone else's hands. Well, that doesn't make sense. If I press one more key on the keyboard, I'll have made that choice myself. But science requires that we all understand the complexities of things we, as normal common folk might not understand. I can't split atoms in my bedroom, and I can't dissect a human body and discover what's inside whenever I feel like it, so it can be difficult to trust scientists to tell us what's "really" going on. Of course, this is all very literal.

Human beings are logical: Before homo sapiens had the means to figure out the "truth," how was the sky blue? How were we created: how did we get here? These are things we couldn't explain... but a god could. The god of rain explained why there was a sudden shower of water from the sky every once in a while, and the god of the harvest explained why sometimes humans had the bad luck of not getting any food. Then along came our good friend Abe, who said something along the lines of "These are fake, there's only one God." We all saw the light, OMG... fast forward to much, much later in time, when suddenly the Holocaust is going on, and people wonder, as seen in Night [brainwashed by Zev "Crackhead" Shanken, sorry], that how could God exist and let people die? Science is reliable, never unpredictable. There is a composed set of possible reactions. It is stable. That's why it's so popular, I think.

It's hard to reconcile two opposites, but it is possible to see a pendulum effect:

A: Religion
B: Something bad happens. How could God do this?
C: Science
D: Science becomes hard to understand
E/A: Religion
B
C, etc.

It's not hard to see why religion is a fallback. God is there. God will help. Ozone layer? No problem. Afterlife? His pleasure! [I'm not just talking about Judaism here.] However, and this is where personal opinion comes in, I think that steps D and E are becoming longer, and the A step is becoming weaker. Steps B and C are becoming shorter. As humans, logical beings, and with the technology, education and resources available to us, step D is almost non-existent, replaced perhaps with D2: Science becomes annoying. [Well, it does.]

I don't know if any of this made any sense, but my class period is over. TTYL, bbz.