How can "Science" a "Fact" based system co-exist with "Religion" a "Faith" based System?

Question

Religion is not based on facts, how can it be compared to Science?

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yes you are....really confused. Einsteins Theory of Special Relativity gave us the Atom Bomb you BOOB! And from the facts of this "Theory" we can detonate an ATOM BOMB! Wow.......no wonder you Religious Nut Cases spew all this Biblical Babble...........you really don't know S#!t!

If you guys are going to state "Science Proves Religion" please provide me with the Scientific Journal from which you acquired this information.

Answer 1

It's kind of an apples and oranges thing. You can't really compare them. There's just a lot of people who seem to want to take away one of them. Those who wish to mix them are weak in their faith of either apples or oranges.

Answer 2

Religion is based on tradition. These traditions were "wisdoms" passed down through generations. "Truths" so to speak that were learned and presented in a way so that the generations afterwards would not make the same mistakes.

The "reason" religious people do things is because their social structure tells them to. It has nothing to do with personal discretion or wisdom. Simply doing things over and over because that is the way it has always been done.

Science on the other hand cannot make decisions without tangible evidence or documented experience. This poses some interesting areas that are difficult to guage or measure. In the movie "A Beautiful Mind" the main character is a mathmatical/scientific genious and he like a girl but asks her how someone knows they are in love.

This girl answers by asking a question: How do you know the universe is infinite. He answers by saying he can't prove it but he knows because all signs indicate that it is so. And she tells him it is the same with love.

Love is a concept that is handled in all religious. A wisdom of generations passed on.

I think science and religion co-exist and compliment each other. Unfortunately, some fundamentalist take the religious "wisdom" and use it as a means to separate themselves from science. Mad scientists also have the opposite problem because they are so consumed with the "can we" that they ignore the "should we."

Answer 3

Well, you started with a false assumption to begin with. For example, the Bible is full of fact and proven history. If your faith is in the Word of God then in fact your faith is based on fact. Much of science has been confirmed by the Bible. Now, there are some whacked out religions that are based on fiction. In fact, all cults and false religions have just enough truth to make them palatable but the rest is fantasy. Science and the Bible go hand in hand. I spent a long time studying science and became a Christian based upon scientific fact. Now if you talk about Evolution, well that is a faith based religion. There is zero evidence to support evolution. You will see science fiction tales all the time defending Evolution. Evolution is not science by its' very nature. There are no transitional species or any other garbage that religion teaches.

Answer 4

Easy my cartoon free based friend, do you believe in magic flowers that grow without sunlight? Everything with seed come on day three but the sun isnt created until day four, a greater light to rule the day and a lesser light to rule the night and HE ALSO MADE THE STARS, hasnt science proved without a doubt that the sun is in FACT a star? Any Moron can see a clock is constructed on day four, but yet our greatest mind has said " If i would have known, I would have become a watchmaker. " Einstein . A, "RULE" or govern...as it is quoted today...to govern means to rule and the sun does not rule the sky it is the moon you can see in both day and night...sorry to blow your lil _blameless_ scam but the correct manner to keep time is by method of thirteen moons and makes a clock so precise that only God could watch it in the manner it was meant to be watched. (God makes clocks all day & night) now where is the lesser light that rules the sky? 2003 mars hit 3.1415926535 light minutes away and no other light ever marked the sky like it without aid of telescope? Pi was written all over the pyramids down in south america and Egypt was also aware of this number and they theorize that they came across it by method of counting revolutions on a drum. There was a stone marker made by the natives here in north america that had Pi encrypted in it as well so, every 60, 000 years this happens infinite universe, infinite number to map out ever square mile of it...ever do the math for when Jesus feeds 5000? 33.333333333333333333333333333 not bad for his time...and the scrolls they found recently " They did not consider the miracle of the loaves " not as old as a rock painting, hey I dont mind stealing bread...im going hungry! Now how many Lunar eclipses happened during that time? hmm good question for yahoo...

Answer 5

There is much of science that is not based on facts...
It is the "theroy" of relativity Einstein talks about...
it is the "theroy" of evolution Darwin pushed on us all.

Religion and science can easily co-exist when people are wiling to accept the "fact" that much of science is only a "theroy" and quit pushing those "theroies"as "facts."

Religious beliefs require faith. This faith comes from past "facts." More and more science is prooving that relogious beliefs are mor likely factual than some scientific beliefs.

There were once a world full of scientists that thought the world was flat. Prior to 1492 this was a "fact." Columbus had "faith" is was round. Who was right?

Answer 6

because religion is based on facts! yes, faith is a large part of religion, but you can't have a religion without faith. science and faith co-exist, c.s. lewis, as everyone in the world ought to agree, was a brilliant man, and after studying a lot became a christian because he saw there was truth to christianity. I think that in the world there are two extremes of faith. 1) you don't beleive in God, or the bible or anything, you're an athiest and have no faith but rely on pure fact to change your mind and 2) you have faith faith faith but its not based on true facts. you don't need facts for your religion because God is all that matters to you and He knows not the world. at least christianity is in the middle of both. our faith is based on the facts most of which we get from the bible, which took over 300 years to write. if it were going to take over 300 years to write the bible, don't you think it ought to have SOME truth! most of it was inspired, but God didn't acxtually write it, He just put the ideas in the writers heads. we also have faith, we understand that you can't know everything and that there isn't always an answer to everything, we trust that we are doing right in following the Good sheperd we know and love. As a Catholic, I follow the pope. we believe that Christ has given the Pope authority over the church, and that the pope is the rock of the church. I hope I answered your question well, and I hope you agree that faith and fact can truly co-exist!

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Answer 7

Simple Mr.Trouble The bible agrees with some scientific claims, you know the one about people being here before Adam and eve........Oops did I spoil something? Genesis 1:27 God creates man in his own image man and woman he created them and breathed into there nostrils the breathe of life then in chapter 2:7 It say the exact same thing except this time they became a LIVING SOUL
Let me explain cave men were to say the least like animals but one problem we were the most hunted because we had no claws, sharp teeth, and we couldn't fly.
But when God mixed his spirit with human kind (Adam & Eve) we became a living soul and so intelligent we became it started this thing called "Modern Civilization" you know we named all of the angels, animals, cities, we had what some people called a brain and since then we became clever, smart, inventive, and in a nut shell Pretty Cool. Oh and if you need more Genisis 6 the race of giants called the Nephelum

Answer 8

Yes, science is based on facts! For example, the empirically demonstrated fact that human consciousness is a mere epiphenomenon of brain function! Crikey, science has *proven* now that human "morality" is nothing but a product of biological, social, and economic forces! I say it's time to cut loose. **** the poor! **** the retards and the cripples! Why the **** should we support them? WHY? They cost too much, and there is no "absolute" basis for morality! The only rational thing to do is to make sure there's enough for all us healthy types. All this mamby pamby "mercy" and "forgiveness" stuff -- all totally irrational and NOW, scientifically DISPROVEN! Human beings have no instrinsic value (nothing does -- it's all atoms and the void)! Let them be fodder for the corporate state and the military!

Answer 9

Simple not every theory in science has been proven, but there is evidence to back it. Even things that have been proven sometimes turn out to be different than we thought. There is nothing that's 100%. Science and religion are the same in the way that something is believed to be b true just different kinds of evidence. Its how people interpret the evidence.

Answer 10

Great american scientist, Feynman, wrote (
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"(1988): "I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted (by miracle stories). And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion."

As literally all great scientists, he was an atheist. Same as Steven Weinberg.
We do know that experts in learning about the world agree: religion is a fantasy, creation of humans, form of art. It can coexist with anything, as long as it is accepted like this: tradition, art, fantasy.

Scientists gain knowledge with hard work, expand our knowledge consistently. Religious sayers are all say many many many different words, - and their words depend strongly on their religion or sect. Scientist from India or Lybia does not say that his/her science is better than science from Russia or US. That is because they all learn truth about the world.

Answer 11

Because neither are absolute. Science is a fact-based system; however, there are a lot of things that are merely beliefs. Religion may be a faith-based system; however, there are many facts that point to the facts.