Are Religionists upset that scientists are figuring out the "mysterious ways"?

Answer 1

Why would I be upset?

Answer 2

Oh yes! I don't get half as many goose bumps, when I see a miralce now-days!

One consolation is; every time a scientist answers one question, three more become obvious. My favorite; if the earth is an orb, how do the people in Australia keep from falling off? (skeptics of that day, called them anti-pods) Eureka! Gravity! Thanks to Newton, we now have a word to use in arguments, instead of the tired old cliche', God's Will. Of course, scientists still can't tell the difference between an increase in gravity, and a ride up, in an elevator. But at least Newton gave us elevators to ponder!

Your beef is with Theocracies, that surpress knowledge. Which may be a blessing, in a world that has both satchel a-bombs, and suicide bombers. Or it may not be. How do you feel about mushrooms, as the relate to the end of the world?

Answer 3

Yes, may be some religionists, but not all. Personally, I would be glad when scientists answer religious questions. I have always felt that religion is scientific.

For example, we can calculate a rounded off value of Pi from the following Bible verse: "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about." [ I Kings 7:23 ] It is safe to assume the numbers were rounded off or otherwise the basin would not have been perfectly circular.

The Atharva Veda contains sutras on mathematics. This system of Vedic mathematics is helpful for students who need to calculate rapidly without a calculator.

Yogic techniques of breath control and meditation are also being scientifically proven to be beneficial.

Answer 4

Calling the world "round" got you killed at one time. Is that a "yes"?

Saying it was not the center of the earth was heresy.

Off topic, but I was cycling though some TIF files I needed to print in Windows picture and fax viewer the other day and your little picture popped up. Scared the hell out of me. No one elses. I found it pretty odd

Oh I just hate some people:
"Of course not Sera. We know that two of the world's most intelligent scientists were devout Christians. Do you know that?"

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060718071356AAnx0P1

It is the fourth answer down. The greatest minds are not religious.

Let's take into account that it is summer vacation and we have tons of brainwashed teenagers on here right now.

Answer 5

It doenst seem like the scientists are proving the bible true or not but they are looking to the mystical religions for concepts and nonlocal implications to explain. If you think about the mystics are some of the only groups left with 100% accountability of their teachings still valid today. Also, it seems like the mind and it's capabilities fall here also. Psychic development, vibrational energies, spritual healing and so much more. Isn't mystic a root word for mysterious? Look at our greatest authors and artists..they knew.

Answer 6

What are those kids talking about? The more scientific evidence we get, the less likely the bibles fairy tales become. There is irrefutable evidence that shows the world to be much older than 6000 years as the bible suggests. Those Religionists who support science don't seem to know their own religion well enough, unless of course it's Scientology.

Answer 7

Science seems to be nothing more than people checking out what is given them as fact. Why would this upset anyone? Oh yeah, I remember now. Religion is a system of control by fear set in place for the ignorant. Empirical data is the enemy of the myth.

Answer 8

they say "science is the devil"
How else are we to explain the fact that all human cultures - no matter how isolated - have maintained a belief in some form of a spiritual/transcendental reality, in a god or gods, a soul, as well as an afterlife? How else are we to explain the fact that every human culture has built houses of worship through which to pray to such unseen forces? Or that every known culture has buried (or at least disposed of) its dead with a rite that anticipates sending the deceased person's "spiritual" component, or what we call a soul, onward to some next plane, or what we call an afterlife? Wouldn't the universality with which such perceptions and behaviors are exhibited among our species suggest that we might be "hard-wired" this way? How about the fact that every known culture has related undergoing what we refer to as spiritual experiences? Perhaps we are "hard-wired" to experience such sentiments as well. Just as all honeybees are compelled to construct hexagonally shaped hives, perhaps humans are compelled to perceive a spiritual reality...as a reflex, an instinct.

Essentially, what I'm suggesting is that humans are innately "hard-wired" to perceive a spiritual reality. We are "hard-wired" to believe in forces that transcend the limitations of this, our physical reality. Most controversial of all, if what I'm suggesting is true, it would imply that God is not necessarily something that exists "out there," beyond and independent of us, but rather as the product of an inherited perception, the manifestation of an evolutionary adaptation that exists within the human brain. And why would our species have evolved such a seemingly abstract trait? -In order to enable us to deal with our species' unique and otherwise debilitating awareness of death.

Answer 9

I said:

GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS!!!


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Answer 10

i know a story that I want to tell you. it's not true of course, but think about it.

One day human kind decided that they can do everything God can and they don't need him anymore. So all the best scientists went to God and said.
"We don't need You anymore, thanks. so you can go away.'
"Are you sure?" asked God.
"Very." they all said.
God said that He would if they we're sure.
they decided to hold a little competition to show God that they cab create anything He can.
"Alright, said God. What do you want to make."
"Lets make a baby." the scientists said.
"Alright." said God and he took a hand full of sand.
The scientists also took a hand full of sand.
When they saw God smiling, they became irritated and asked why he was smiling.
God simply said this.
"Get your own dirt."

Answer 11

Why would it? As I stated in your previous question, God gave us humans a natural sense of curiosity.

You are really bored today, aren't you?

On the other hand, my belief in God is not affected by my not knowing. I can accept the the fact that only God can answer all possible questions. So, if no human knows the answer to a certain question, so what?