Whats wrong with this logic?

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whats wrong with this logic

rainbows? there is a scientific explanation for rainbows

what happens when science does explain love and all these things people say god did,

does that mean your faith in god is shattered

shouldn't your faith be based on things unseen?

Answer 1

Not to mention the fact that according to some ancient myths, the rainbow is the necklace of Ishtar.

Answer 2

Faith is a very personal thing... Personally, my faith in god is strengthened when there is a scientific explaination for a biblical miracle. God does not break the rules that he set; he is a just and fair god. That he uses his own rules(aka 'scientific' possibilities) shows this.

The rainbow(and biblical flood for that matter) is one of my favorites... Evidence around the world shows a global flood. Some scientists feel that this could have been caused by a colapse of a water canopy surrounding the Earth(possibly caused by an asteroid impact sending particles into the cloudmass so that it would rain)... Were this the case, then there would never have been a rainbow before the flood, for there would never have been the direct sunlight to cause one. Thus, the 'new' occurance of a rainbow would be a sign that there would not be another global flood.

Answer 3

Rainbows are just one of many things that God created. However, the rainbow was meant as a "reminder" to God to not flood the earth again. Rainbows were certainly there before because the optical physics for rainbows has always existed.

Science can "explain" how God made things, but that's not the same thing as explaining God Himself. You are much more than the things you have done in your life. In the same way, God is much more than the sum total of the "things" He created.

Explaining how God did "things" shows how similar miracles are possible, but it doesn't re-create them.

Let's see science bring someone back to life - like Lazarus - who was dead for over 4 days. When that happens, then let's talk again.

Answer 4

Not sure what you mean by "all these things", but I am fine if science "explains" love. God created mankind with these emotions and it definately isn't a miracle if you love someone, so there is bound to be a chemical interaction in your brain. Just as God designed.

Now if you are talking about the miracles of the Bible, then I don't know how you could explain them, as you may provide a theoretical way in which it might have occured, but you wouldn't be about to say how it occured at that specific moment of time and any theories would be based on alot of assumptions to determine the conditions at that time.

I mean come on, I've heard a theory that the sea of galliee flash froze so Jesus could walk on it. I think that is something that the people of the time could have described and would have been miraculous in itself, but they described something completely different.

Answer 5

That's a pretty silly thing to say. There's beautiful things in the world, so God must have made it all. Don't they remember almost every religion would be "proved" by that logic? Rainbows and roses are easy to explain, and love is an important part for the survival of almost every species. We are social creatures, without love and morality our society crumbles and we will all die out. Why does God have to create Love when evolution can do that for us?

Answer 6

Faith HAS to be based on things unseen (and non-existent) because it cannot stand up to scientific examination. This is why it's uttery bogus.

Answer 7

"It has mass otherwise it does no longer exist." can not some thing exist with out having mass? The regulations in the back of the universe which includes gravity act on remember and could be hence of remember yet those regulations themselves do no longer have mass. Likewise our thoughts result from our mind interest although the thoughts themselves do no longer have mass. the clarification gravity works or how cells come mutually to type wise existence, isn't made up of mass yet acts on mass. as well to, how can we outline existence? If we outline it as interest then can we call robots alive? Or a minimum of call the keep in mind that makes up a robotic alive? - Or can we difficulty existence to the cells that make up a residing being? Are those cells alive or merely the made from them? - finally, can we are saying that gravity and such regulations are alive in that those regulations are area of what make existence conceivable? those forces use mass and power to act. the position is the programming of such forces? can we rearrange the programming to modify the regulations of physics? technology can manage certain variables of a substance and do remarkable issues even though it in reality occurs on a small scale. truth itself isn't replaced as an entire. The regulations are a similar, we are able to in reality replace the remember/power to observe how the manipulated substance reacts to a similar regulation. we are able to not replace the regulation itself yet we are able to push the supplies to the acute to observe how the regulations of physics paintings in those extremes. The regulations exist with out mass or power. Mass and power are programmed by ability of those regulations in a thanks to react. If the regulations did not exist there will be no order, no common sense. those regulations are alive and always operating in an unchanging way. they might no longer have the intelligence of loose selection yet they do act on each thing an in a way that instructs mass and power in a thanks to act logically. p.s. imagine of how issues will be affected if those regulations of common sense died. loopy, huh?

Answer 8

I was always taught that God created the rainbow as a symbol of his promise not to flood the Earth again...

...At least that's how I was told the story goes...

Answer 9

there is beauty in simplicity, also God works in mysterious ways as well as in simple. Remember god created everything

Answer 10

faith is believing in things that can not be proven. Once something is proven then faith is replaced with knowledge.