It is true that "The Big Bang Theory" star Mayim Bialik, who plays Amy Farrah Fowler in the series earlier said that practicing religion will never be a trendy thing in Hollywood, but now the actress is trying to clarify her statements, explaining that she did not mean anything negative by it.
"They asked me if I thought that religiosity will shift in my industry, and the answer was basically no; it's never going to be some trend that being religiously observant is the hip and happening thing to be. And that's okay!" she wrote in an article for Grok Nation.
She was then questioned heavily how she can be religious not just in Hollywood, but also in the world of science, Bialik sought to explain further by stressing three points.
The first thing she said was that the Torah, or the Old Testament of the Bible is not a science book. "For me and almost every single religious person I have encountered in my life - even the most religious Chasidic people I have talked to - the Torah is not describing start-to-finish the scientific process of how the world came to be or how the world functions as a scientific entity. Period," she said.
Bialik added that there really isn't more to add to that statement, since she does not look to the Torah to explain scientific phenomena, but instead she uses it as an allegory, as a moral teaching, as a historical document of certain aspects of life at that time, and as a code of behavior.
The next point she made was that everything is divine, or awesome, or fine, however people want to put it. "Being a person of faith means that all of the phenomena of the world are seen through a lens of gratitude to something bigger than you. But I live in the same world with the same limitations and the same potential for awe and wonder as non-religious people," she explained.
Lastly, Bialik said that her religious faith only fuels her love for science, and vice versa. Every time she becomes impressed with a scientific fact or principle, or becomes amazed by the human brain or the anatomy or the eye or so many things, she feels like she is in some way "part of a big, big world of existence."
"And it strengthens my understanding that I couldn't create any of it even if I tried forever and into infinity. I can't turn the tides and I can't make gravity stop working. I can't control the movement of subatomic particles and I can't make someone love me if they don't," she said. "I have no power over this Universe and that makes me love all of the things in the Universe and the powerlessness at the same time. And that's what a scientist of faith looks like."
