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Relationship between Spirituality and Science

We are going to discuss the growth of a ‘human child verse animal’s baby’. A human child grows to his full physiology by around the age of 18 years. That when we call him/her adult. Still, he needs to learn a lot many aspects of society that he dwells in. From learning to talk to people to reading books on various topics. From cycling to driving car, cooking, dressing up, etc. He has to learn N number of things to fit in the society that his previous generations have created for him.

Look at the animals on the other hand. A dog’s pup grows physiologically in around 1 to 1.5 years. He doesn’t have to learn driving, cooking, talking differently to different people. He has to learn very basic skills such as eating, sleeping, running etc. I am trying to say we humans have a complex society for which we need to train and teach our kids accordingly. So, isn’t it beautiful that nature has slowed the growing pace of human child to match him according to the learning time needed?

Some might say, this is evolution. But who gives this evolution, the pace it needs? Just to discuss this with an example. In the wild, when a child of Giraffe is born, it drops to the mother Earth. It is immediately kicked by his mother to make him aware of its surroundings. There are a lot many dangers in the wild, ready to get hold of this baby, as they get a turn to hunt it. As soon the Giraffes child comes aware of its surroundings the mother kicks again, to make him stand up! To start walking and run if needed due to any hunter trying to hunt the baby.

What faster pace can we see rather than this! As evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin said, “Survival of the fittest!”. And so, mother Giraffes is doing whatever it can to train the child to get ready for his surroundings. We humans have created a much complex yet safe societies. Here, we are not hunted by other animals or humans. But Darwin’s principles apply here as well. Just that we need to be more educated, more skilled and more polished to survive in this human dominated world. Isn’t it a beauty of the God in giving us the pace we need to fit in properly in our surrounding?

This is Yash Bajaj signing off. Hope you like this episode of relationship between Spirituality and Science.

Thank You.