Religion and Scientific methods?

Question

Why cant religion and science work in co-operation, why do they have to be such mortal enemys? my personal thoughts are that they both drive to seek the same goal. science in a form of numerals and equations, and religion in flesh and faith. science seeks out answers to the world. religion also seeks these same answers, but in a different format. Take evolution for example, science says darwin, religion says god just poofed us to fit to our current state. why couldnt god have created us and then tweaked us over time using evolution??? it seems logical to me. he saw improvements to be needed, he improved. and the creation of the universe, science has many theorys but the biggest common agreed one is the big bang theory. religion says it was just wisked here all of a sudden. i dont understand why god could not have used the big bang method to create the universe? it has to always be such utter hate between the two when in fact they both drive the same questions.1 has equations, one faith

Answer 1

Has anybody just sat down and really talked to them?

Answer 2

Christianity and science are not opposed to each at all. In fact, most of the early scientists (Newton, Paschal, Galileo, Kepler, etc.) were Christians. They accepted that there was reason and purpose behind everything in the universe. God did not, nor would He need to use evolution for anything. He didn't need to "tweak" His creation since when He created originally, it was very good. God didn't mess up, we did. By implying this, you are assuming that God is imperfect, which of course, is nonsense. The big bang theory has many problems so it is not universally accepted. God did not need an explosion in the universe to create, He spoke it into being.

Answer 3

Science provides knowledge about the World. Religion is a collection of myths, without any methods or tools whatsoever.

It is not a bad family quality time to have Santa for X-mass with kids. Other myths are less innocent and easily make people angry and aggressive.

To put science methods and religion "methods" in one sentence is nonsense. But if one does not have a clue, then all this seem same, and Earth may be flat, and Sun is center of Universe etc.

P.S. The ignorance of some answers above would be amusing, if it would not be sad.

Answer 4

religion and science are not mortal enemies. It is atheists and the Bible who are such. :) The Big Bang method for God would have been pointless. Also, illogical. And it violates the laws of physics. Also, why would a perfect God create us imperfectly? The answer is He didn't. We were created perfectly and then sin made us imperfect. Notice science in your method is not the one making any concessions; it's all religion. Sorry, this just doesn't work.

Answer 5

Because evolution is WRONG, IT'S STUPID, It's a state supported religion, and my tax money is paid to support it. The Big Bang was a Big Dud. IF the Big Bang was true. Where did all the matter, energy, and univeral laws caome from? When did time, space, and matter meet to create the big bang? where did we get the heavier elements from hydrogen? Fusion of hydrogen can only go as far as Iron. Why are there universes, planets, and moons spinning backwards if the Big Bang was spinning only in one direction. Supposedly, everything is suppose to spin in one direction. If the Big Bang theory was true, the comets that we see in the sky are suppose to be gone by now. Comets only last for 10,000 years and they cannot be formed or created. They will only slowly lose thier mass.

Answer 6

Religon and Science work fine together. Some of the finest scientific minds were Christian.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/science.asp

As far as why God could not have used evolution to create us is two fold.
1) There was no death prior to Adam and Eve being evicted as that was part of the curse. If evolution was true, there would have been massive death prior and thus invalidate one of the fundamental aspects of Sin.

2) If God had wanted to describe evolution, He could have. He could have said "after many, many years" instead of day. He could have put the order in the "right order" according to evolution.

Answer 7

I think this has to do with the trouble of reconciling religious texts with the findings of science. There is no reason why God couldn't have used a big bang to create the universe, but Genesis (in the Bible) has other ideas.

Personally I totally agree with you. God is not bound by religious texts, regardless how much we think they are the word of God. If God did create us, there is no reason why he wouldn't do it within the boundaries of the natural laws that he created...Actually it makes more sense than anything you read in the Bible...

Answer 8

Because science is not based on truth and it is terribly perverted. The Bible says "there is a way that seems right on to man but the end thereof is the way of death." Humans (scientists) see through human eyes and only accept what seems right to them. In the end they will find out that there are principles of life that they know nothing about and that God was right in His Word all along. Faith is the much better way to go because it trusts in God who knows all things not in science which is extremely limited by human bias.

Answer 9

science demand, religion commands. science require certain things to progress step by step in accordance with standards which are considered exacting of factors which must be repeatable time after time and get the same results. religion commands you to believe only what the leaders of the religion says to believe. if you don't believe as they say, you must be put to death. such attitudes gave rise to the crusades, the black death, Nazi Germany, the pogroms against the Jews in Europe, and today's friction in the middle east. many may disagree with this but they want to ignore the facts of the last 2000 years. they justify their actions by using GOD as the reason for what they believe rather than the convenience of religion making them feel self important in their own eyes.

Answer 10

If science and lovers of science could be as pure as you tell it, then religion and science could co-exist.
BTW the big bang is slowly slippin away-it ran into trouble with the law. You are behind in science.

Answer 11

You were somewhat rational till the actuality/question "how will we come to the coolest that X does exist with out using the clinical approach?" there isn't any reason to assume that the non secular or supernatural isn't examinable by skill of the clinical approach, or maybe interior the case that it really is, the isn't any reason to imagine that any interaction between the supernatural and the organic does not go away information. out of your reasoning, we ought to always be agnostic about Santa, unicorns and Zeus as well - now to not instruct one thousand's of alternative issues that haven't any information. Edit: even as i'm not agnostic in route of the concept of a god or gods, i'd really evaluate any information for them. I in basic terms see no reason to imagine that any may exist interior the first position.