Sumblog 1 - Herbert Spencer

When reading the supplementary reading about Herbert Spencer I found it very interesting how at first he thought religion and science would be able to go together when explaining evolution. Although he later realized the two categories clashed, today we would consider them polar opposite. In fact, science has come such a far way that today we do not even need religion as a source to explain the world. The following video clip is cosmologist Lawrence Krauss explaining his book called A Universe from Nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIDmzLfk0K0

Throughout the segment, Krauss explains how science has made it possible to have a universe without a God. Although many of us do and will believe in a God, we as humans no longer need to have faith in order to explain and understand the universe. When science was first developing during the Enlightenment and even until early in the 21st century there have always been questions about what started it all. How did it all begin? There must have been some sort of God to create the first bit of energy. Well, according to Krauss science can now explain how something can come from nothing. We no longer need one bit of religion to help explain it. This is a huge advancement from the Enlightenment era when Herbert Spencer believed science and religion could go together. This advancement also backs up Spencer's theory about definiteness. He believes that diversity in society must exist but as time goes on each segment in society will become more and more defined and the boundaries between groups will become more clear. At one point in time it was thought that religion and science could possible go together to explain the universe, but here we are today and it seems as if you must pick a side. The boundaries between the two have become extremely clear.