Why do some people feel the need to answer a scientific or silly question with a religious answer?

Answer 1

"And the Lord said unto the people of Yahoo ' He who who besmirches my people also besmirches me and I will bring down a pointy reckoning and My wrath will be known for I am mighty. And I may smite you too, I'll see how I'm feeling !"

And Little Baby Jesus told me to tell you " No Christmas presents for you this year, you heathen !"
Yep, you heard him.

Answer 2

It's very interesting to see people's opinions, and how narrow minded people who claim that the religious are blinkered are. For the record I'm a practising Catholic and have two degrees from top universities in Psychology and IT respectively, that and I know where science has its place and where religion has its place. Oh, and my sense of humour is fine thanks! :-)

Some scientific questions, such as the origins of the universe, legitimately have religious answers depending on your beliefs. Also, questions about dealing with difficult situations can also be answered with a religious slant.

While people forcing their beliefs on you is undesirable, why not just accept that people have the right to give their view. I've read a lot of answers that I don't like, but regardless of that reason people have a right to their own view.

Answer 3

Life actually does have an intrinsic meaning, but to get to it we're going to have to progress a little sideways. So bear with me... Before we can talk about the meaning of life, I think it's productive to first ask the question, "What IS life?". This is a bit easier to answer, if not perfectly clear, because biologists obviously have to be able to explain what, exactly, the bio- part of their name refers to. Biologists, when they try to define what life is, tend to look at the number of things that are generally considered to be 'alive' and figure out what qualities they all seem to have in common. This gives us a handful of properties that all living things we know of seem to have, including growth, reproduction, and the ability to make long-term adaptations to the environment. Okay. So what does that MEAN? Again I think we need to break down our question with another one: "What IS meaning?" I'll take the same approach as the biologists on this one and consider examples. If a boulder fell on someone's house, and one observer asked another, "What does that mean?", what would acceptable answers be? I can think of a number of them ("It means that was a bad place to build a house"), and what they seem to have in common are that they describe greater implications and intent. Or in other words, given the event, process, or object, what will happen in the future, what led to it in the past, and what effects and intents does it have in the present? So what does life do? It changes things. We know from the definition of life that it grows, consumes, spreads, alters its environment and alters the ways in which it does all these things. Having living things around means things are going to be different later, and probably were different before. Any time we imagine a place where nothing is ever different the only way that image works is to make it completely devoid of life. So that is something. But it's not everything. Life doesn't produce just ANY change, but a certain flavour of it. Simply put, living things want to live. The changes living things make, generally speaking, either help them do so or kill them off. So life is not just about change, but change ideally for the better, even if practically it falls short sometimes. This, then, must be the meaning of life. To change for the better. Curiously enough, a quick survey of major philosophies, religions, and systems reveals that almost all of them seem to integrate this concept. Change for the better. There may be other important things, as some of the above systems would suggest, but to 'change for the better' is, at least, is the one thing implied by the very nature of the way things are. So do it!

Answer 4

For many people there is no separation in belief systems. If you ask a science question I have to show that there is a religious answer. The fact is that most people can not see that the two are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to accept the results of scientific tests but still have faith in the unseen.

For those who can not accept the duality they must profess their belief all the more ardently. This occurs from both sides of the coin.

Answer 5

Well, many answers to scientific questions ARE "religious" answers. Science and religion are not polar opposites. No, science cannot PROVE religion is right, but it hasn't disproved it either (don't use evolution as an example either; it takes more faith to believe that the human eye evolved without any sort of Creator than it does to believe in God). Religion can be an intergral part of science, if people would just let it.

Since religion is what many people believe to be true, they give you the answer they believe is true. It's not because they are "Bible-thumpers" or anything like that. They believe it to be true and, so, to them (and me, if you can't tell) they're answering truthfully.

Answer 6

Because God is the Ultimate Scientist. Even Einstein said "God does not play dice with the Universe." Everything in nature has an order to it, even if it's currently beyond our scientific understanding as of yet. All that order had to come from somewhere - a source - so basically, that's the
General
Organizational
Director
= G O D

Answer 7

First, please capitalize God and Bible. These are proper names.

Christians BELIEVE the Bible is God's Word, ad therefore infallible. The degree to which infallible applies (phrasing vs theme) varies amongst denominations.

Christians therefore BELIEVE the Bible is a reasonable reference for answering scientific questions.

It is arrogant to assume, however, that because Christians do not use scientific texts to answer these questions, they are ignorant. Science is constantly evolving (pun intended), and therefore current thought on a subject will be different than future tthought. Those calling Christians stupid or Bible thumbers most likely know little more about the subject than Christians, when compared to what is to know (unless you have the Unified Theory in your back pocket).

So let's all have some mutual respect for our differences.

Answer 8

Just because someone answers a science question with a religious answer does not mean they are a bible thumper. Maybe that is the only context they know how to answer that specific question to. It does not mean that they will answer every science question that way.

Instead of being narrow-minded and ignorant, try and look at an argument from both sides people.

Answer 9

Well in Corinthidos 82:716 it says:

"Thou shalt answer scientific and silly questions on sites from the spiders abode with religious answers, if you do not do this thou shalt be given a sense, which shall be called humour and it shall be 8 cubits in width and 12 cubits in length."

Answer 10

Many people who are devout Christians just have a Christian state of mind. They would answer any question from that point of view. Perhaps they are a little too focused on that state of mind and don't recognize the question as silly or scientific as you see it.

Answer 11

Because those that are religious believe everything was created by HIM and not science, so they do not know how to answer a scientific question. :)