An in-detph conversation on The Star

If one my fans don't know what The Star is about, then I'll give you a short summary. It is all about an astrophysicist and his team go to the aftermath of a supernova in a distant galaxy where they find the remnants of an extinct civilization. Today in class we discussed about what makes this short story such a good one to read. From the notes that took that day, it seems that the biggest topic was how religion and science cannot co-exist. Science always makes facts into theories and laws, but religions always make laws into facts. In the short story, the astrophysicist finds proof that the star of Bethlehem was also the supernova and/or the destruction of a human-like civilization. Since the astrophysicist is also a man who devoted his life to Jesus, he asks himself ehy would God destroy another race to show the birth of the king of Israel. The contraversy is that in The Star, religion proves that the star of Bethlehem was true, but they figured it out in a scientifical way. This could mean that the birth of Jesus and the supernova was just a coincidence that happened at the same time, but if that's true then that means that this religion the astrophysicist believes in could all be false. On the other hand, if this situation was not coincidence, but instead was done by the will of God, then why would he destroy a whole civilization that were similar to humans. God is known to be a merciful one, which creates an argument about if God really is merciful. If God is not merciful, it would disprove the religion....Because of the swelling developing in my skull, I'm going to have to stop thinking for a while.........