If atheists believe science is the root of all fact....?

Question

How do they explain all of the inaccuracies and failures of science? They regularly quote religious texts and cite inaccuracies, yet their beloved science at one time was adamant that the world was flat, the earth was the center of the universe, animals came from plants, etc.

How do they explain the mistakes of science and how are they any less of a joke than the religious contradictions they regularly cite?

Answer 1

Personally, I believe science has it's place as does faith. Each has its own virtues. If God had not wanted us to explore science He wouldn't have given us the tools to use it. As science unlocks more and more mysteries, it becomes more and more evident that life is far more than just a coincidence over a great deal of time. All one has to do to see this is open their mind. It's too bad more people can't see the harmony that exists between science and spirituality. Perhaps if they were to experience a miracle or two, as I have, they might begin to see the Light.

Unfortunately, there are hypocrites and knot-heads on both sides of this issue. Science can exist harmoniously with religion if you keep hard evidence and spirituality separate. Seems the biggest obstacle is creation verses evolution. Evolution most certainly exists.... there is plenty of good, hard scientific evidence to prove it. How it began, as scientists believe, is not clear. Looking around me and seeing how perfect life is, it's hard to believe some sort of controlling divine force did not have something to do with it. Even given all the time and adaptation needed to get us to where we are. Aside from the physical world, why do we have spirits and all the little things that go along with it. Why can my son and I read each others minds? Science can't explain it and never will be able to explain it. Why did Einstein have such vast visions without some kind of hard evidence to prove his theories. There's only one answer folks... divine inspiration. Scientists live in their closed little worlds just like many religious folks. Wish they could all join me and celebrate all the gifts God has given us.... including science.

'nuff said?

Answer 2

Science is a tool for testing claims about the universe, it isn't the root of all fact. Using the tool (the scientific method) we've made great progress in understanding the world around us. But science, and this is the key to your question, recognizes that it's an imperfect process. It is done by people. People can be outright dishonest or they can make mistakes. We have less than complete knowledge, we might not even be looking at the results in the right framework, so we can reach conclusions that aren't supported by the evidence or the evidence might not be an accurate sample of reality. So all knowledge in science is provisional, subject to revision by subsequently learned facts. And we keep re-testing things to make sure that they are accurate.
Religion, on the other hand, claims to be a revealed set of truths. There is no way to test it other than to subjectively accept its teachings. So when people claiming to have absolute revealed knowledge turn out to be wrong, the whole basis of their belief system is called into doubt. When science discovers an error and corrects it, the whole basis of the scientific belief system is confirmed. That's a huge difference.

Answer 3

Sure there were failures with science before man had the tools to correct themselves, but we did! We now know that the earth is round and rotates around the sun, that we all evolved from a single celled organism. Science has evolved with time just like man, and I'm sure it will continue to evolve as the years go on. Just like religion has evolved. There will always be mistakes and inaccuracies in religious texts because man is the one who translated them from generations down. and a lot of information was lost in the translation. so we will never truly know the complete word of God because it was lost many moons ago. The only thing we DO know for sure is that the world is round and people aren't perfect, we make mistakes.

Answer 4

Indeed, scientists in the past have not always been on the right track with their theories, and they are willing to admit this.
It is possible and even very likely that some of the theories we now hold to be true, will be proved inaccurate or even false some day.
So if you are asking if science is completely flawless, I doubt if anybody in the world would say yes.
However, it is the nature of the answers scientists provide, that makes it science and gives them a better chance to be 'true'.
(btw, whether science or religion is right, has been a hot topic for over 1000 years)
Philosopher of science Karl Popper investigated the scientifical method, and came up with a little something called 'falsification'. It's all about how a scientist comes up with a certain theory - to make a long story short: what you need for a scientific theory, is the possibility that it 's false. Eg, if you say that all swans are white, you would only have to see one black swan to make your theory false. If we saw only one object floating upwards instead of falling downwards, we would start questioning Newton's gravitation.
This principle of falsification makes sure that any scientific theory is, at all time, open to discuss, to object, to improve.
Here you see the contrast between the religious version: most religions are not very open to a real debate, and the answers they provide are impossible to prove wrong anyway. (How did God create the world? ... well, he's allmighty, right?:))
Hence, most scientific answers are more reliable - scientificly speaking. The object of science is to make the world useful and comfortable to us - medicine, electricity, cars,...
Some questions we meet in life, have nothing to do with that, e.g. art, mourning, happiness, love,...
It's obvious that science doesn't even try to resolve these questions, so there absolutely is a point in turning to religion for those things...

Answer 5

It's really simple to understand.

IN A NUTSHELL :

Science works by first and foremost making all attempts at DISPROVING any given idea(hypothesis) first, rather than naively believing whatever they are told as therein lies the risk of deceit and corruption through the inherent self-serving nature of Man. When those attempts are exhausted and the idea, or hypothesis remains true, it is considered then to be fact, until such time as it CAN be disproven(Theory). Scientists do not feel ashamed by an admittance of error, for that is how knowledge is gained, unlike some, who although class Pride as a sin, carry more of it than most when refusing to admit they COULD be wrong about something they have only ever been told about...
Therefore, by it's very own nature it is the "root of all fact" as you put it. I like to see it more as the "root of all truth" though.

:)

Answer 6

Science used to be connected to religious thought, because back then religions dominated the world even more than they do now. Religious institutions could and often did imprison people for having radical ideas that opposed the bible -- Galileo, for example, who was locked up for arguing that the earth revolved around the sun, instead of the other way around. For centuries the Christian church did its best to discourage scientific discovery, much the same way it continues to rage about evolution, stem cell research, etc., in modern times.

Science as a rule never claims to be absolutely 100% correct, as religious leaders do. Science is all about **discovery** -- which is something organized religions strongly *discourages* even today.

Answer 7

Wait, "Have people who disbelieve no longer prevalent that the heavens and the Earth have been joined jointly as one united piece then we parted them" that's what all the fuss is approximately? it quite is the evidence that the Quran expected the large Bang? that should merely as truthfully mean clouds and the sunlight used to roll around on the floor. surely, it extra in all probability ability that. The Greeks additionally a manner or the different new that a piece that makes each and everything in Earth bright and warm is a manner or the different warm. it quite is the myth of Icarus, few too on the edge of the sunlight and his pretend wings burned. think of that! A custom that recognizes the fee the the brightest favored ingredient interior the Earth's sky! there is no different cultures on the earth that worship the sunlight, nope, no longer a one. and each and each calendar on the earth inclusive of so-referred to as "lunar calendars" have never used the orbit of the sunlight as their base unit of time. and what's this? people who've even heard of water understanding which you will no longer blend clean and salt water because of the fact the clean water will exchange into salt water??!! insanity!!! look, you're based way too lots on interpretation. additionally there is two motives we don't in many cases examine the Quran: A) you adult men shop sending us dying threats, which form of takes the relaxing out of debates. B) "that's a foul translation" is the Muslim equivalent of "that's out of context" which Christians never decrease back up via surely checking the unique quote and telling us how the strains in the past or after that bit exchange the which ability. we are actually not gonna learn Arabic just to show out that a faith that's a ripoff of yet another faith we already be attentive to is bullshit is likewise bullshit.

Answer 8

The diffrence between science and religion probably lies in the fact that science keeps changing its literature with new findings and the religion maintain status quo with regard to its established concepts. Inaccuracies in science get rectified over the passage of time.

Answer 9

We don't believe science rules. We just don't believe that God is the maker / breaker of the world. We do however want proof that a devine power does in fact exist. If I seen him with my own eyes, I'd be a believer, because I don't believe anything I cannot see with my own eyes. And as for the world being flat, that was believed by the majority of the people in that era, not just atheists until proven otherwise.

Answer 10

Science is ever-changing and evolving. But religion and scriptures don't ever change, you have to believe things that were written and created eons ago. Simple as that.