How have scientific discoveries given a greater understanding of God's glory?

Question

For instance now that we know that the sun is billions of times more powerful than an atom bomb and that it is only a minor star in this vast galaxy that God has created does that give you a more awesome understanding of the descriptive term 'God Almighty'?

P.S. - if you don't believe in God and think that somehow science can be used to deny His existence, feel free to demonstrate your ignorance by making a contrary post, it IS a free country after all.

But know that no science "fact" has ever contradicted the Bible. Unprovable theories may, but hard scientific facts have only supported the Biblical accounts. Check out http://www.allaboutgod.com/all-subjects.htm if you don't believe me.

Answer 1

Here's what I'd like to say about "science..." I don't need to know what gases and light refractions make up a sunset to see His glory in it... Actually, all that CRAP tends to spoil it for me, anyway...! I prefer to just gaze in awe and appreciate all His wonders around me without having to have to explain everything as to the how, when, why, ifs, ands, or buts...!

I also LOVE to remind my 3 daughters Who did all this by saying - from time to time - "Who made that pretty butterfly...?" or "Who made that beautiful bird...?" You get the idea...

Answer 2

it's funny how you source info from a BIASED website and then you call someone who doesn't believe god, ignorant.

Have you ever studied geometry? In geometry there's something that's called Pythagorean theorem?

Theorem = an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth

It's used from highschool students to architects. Because it has been proven it's practicality.

Now the old argument was between creation vs evolution. Whether man was from sand and rib vs single celled organism.

Many churches are against it because it disregards the old testament. Yet if we were to disregard it just because holy rollers are against it then we wouldn't have made so many medical accomplishments.

Another interesting thing is that the Pythagoreans also studied the Pentalpha which is AKA pentagram or penticle.

It's a star with a circle around it dating back 3500 yrs BEFORE CHRIST. The significance of the pentagram is best describes as a Fibonacci series. A pentagram can exist in smaller forms within itself infinately. That's why it's used as a sign of truth.

Here is a link to a site that has gathered most of the uses of the pentagram since then. You'll see that it was used by jews/pagans/christians/gypsies/celts/monarchies and I have even found it in chinese medicine.

http://paganandproud.bravepages.com/The%20Pentagram%20its%20real%20history.html

It's funny though, all of these religions and faiths in different parts of the world, in a time where communication was almost non existant, can find the same meaning in this one symbol but can't agree with one another.

Answer 3

Einstein's famous equation e=mc2 shows that matter and energy are the same. Superstring theory tells us that the fundamental constituent in nature is a packet of energy. There really is nothing you call matter, only concentrated packets of energy.

Furthermore, Quantum Mechanics tells us that it takes consciousness to collapse the probability field into the state we call matter. So matter is formed when consciousness acts on energy. This is scientific fact and no physicist will argue this.

So consciousness and energy must have pre-existed creation. But whose consciousness and what energy? What better definition of God can exist than that of original source?

In the beginning there was the Creator, the original source. The Creator was all that there was and there was nothing that was not the Creator. The Creator was composed entirely of energy, and was completely conscious and aware of every aspect of it's own Divinity. Just as you might know yourself to be a generous person but would not be able to experience the act of giving generously unless there was someone other than you to whom you could give, the Creator though aware of it's own Divinity could not fully experience itself since all was one.

Therefore the Creator worked out a magnificent plan where all things could be experienced. In a singular moment we call the Big Bang, the energy of the Creator (which we call Love) was converted into the fundamental building block of matter - the photon of light (E=MC2). Through the principles of vibrating energy creation was stratisfied into density layers in the same way the vibrations we call sound stratisfy into harmonic layers. Just like some sound frequencies cannot be detected by your hearing, some densities of creation cannot be directly percieved by our senses.

Some fundamental conclusions (again supported by science) are that:

1. Everything in Creation is an individual expression of the Creator, by the Creator. Therefore every atom, rock, tree, animal, human, planet, star or galaxy is alive with it's own level of consciousness imparted by the Creator.

2. The energy of the Creator is the fundamental constituent of nature from which all things are formed. Therefore there is no separation from the Creator or anything else, this is only an illusion.

3. The gift of the illusion of separation was provided in order that each person could co-create their own variation of experience with absolute free-will. Nonetheless, it is still an illusion, in reality all-is-one.

Truth is, your very existence here is proof of the Creator. You were created BY the Creator, OF the Creator, and you exist in a highly detailed holographic environment that overlays true reality.
Like an actor in a daytime soap opera, the character you are playing now is not the real you, you are merely acting out your dramas on this stage of visible light.

Unlike a scripted TV show however, this play is an improvisation, and you are a co-creator of the entire production.

Answer 4

RELIGION and SCIENCE have always been considered to be twin sisters by Islam and today at a time when science has taken great strides, they still continue to be associated. Furthermore, certain scientific data are used for a better understanding of the Qur’anic text. In a century where, for many, scientific truth has dealt a deathblow to religious belief, it is precisely the discoveries of science that, in an objective examination of the Islamic Revelation, have highlighted the supernatural character of various aspects of the Revelation.

After a study which lasted ten years, the famous French physician Maurice Bucaille adressed the French Academy of Medicine in 1976 and expressed the complete agreement of the Qur’an and established findings of modern science. He presented his study on the existence in the Qur’an of certain statements concerning physiology and reproduction. His reason for doing that was that "our knowledge of these disciplines is such, that it is impossible to explain how a text produced at the time of the Qur’an could have contained ideas that have only been discovered in modern times".

Decades later a noted embryologist Keith L. Moore and expert in his field, upon being presented with the statements made in the Qur’an regarding the stages of the formation of the embryo from the mixing of the male and female gametes up to the embryo’s full development remarked "It has been a pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur’an about Human Development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God or Allaah because almost all of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later." Professor Moore presented his findings to scientists at several conferences. Several Canadian periodicals published many of Moore’s statements and in addition he presented three television programmes in which he highlighted the compatibility of modern science with what has been revealed in the Qur’an 1400 years ago. Consequently, he was asked: "Does this mean that you believe that the Qur’an is the word of God?" to which he replied "I find no difficulty in accepting this."

In fact Professor Moore was so amazed at the accuracy of the descriptions and the terminology used for the various stages of the development of the embryo that he modified his own textbook on the subject. He incorporated all the relevant Qur’anic passages and authentic statements of the Prophet Muhammad into his book, The Developing Human: Clinically oriented embryology with Islamic additions, which was published by WB Saunders in 1987 and was a standard university textbook in the United States. The book now contains passages of the Qur’an and the Hadeeth (verified statements of the Prophet Muhammad) for every stage of development and Professor Moore has also adopted the classification used in the above two sources.

Answer 5

I would like to first expand you question, to allow that the glory was created by a deity(ies) other than the christian/jewish/muslim 'god'.

There have been several scientific discoveries which have given us a greater understanding of my creator - the omnipetant and beneficent Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Global warming for one, is a key scientific discovery, requiring geology, biology, geography and several other scientific disciplines. Without knowledge of global warming, we would have no conception of the powerful effects that numbers of pirates can have on the climatic history of the earth. All made possible and allowed to exist through the power of 'him'.

Science cannot disprove the existance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But then, scientist must have better things to do with their time.

Answer 6

Non sequitur. There are no gods.

We REALLY need to eradicate religion, and put this nonsense behind us. Don't you realize, yet, just how dangerous religion is?

It's all well and good to think that you're just 'hedging your bets' or 'playing it safe' by hanging on to some old god myth. But religion is dangerous. Just look at all the trouble it causes. Look at all the grief, the hate, the waste of time, energy, and money. Look at how it holds humans back from reaching their potential. Look at all the arguing and fighting and killing, over something that doesn't even exist.

It's time. We've been moving in this direction for the last 500 years, and now it's time. Time to put this silliness behind us, and admit that there are no gods; That there never have been gods; That religion is not only unnecessary, but wasteful and dangerous as well.

Answer 7

Not all scientists are atheists.

For me, learning about chirality reinforced my belief in God and the beauty of His design. Chirality refers to the arrangement, in organic chemistry, of carbon atoms with 4 different types of atoms. Such molecules have 2 forms, called enantiomers, based on the positioning of these types of atoms on the carbon atom.

In biochemistry, only one form is biologically useful. The other is either useless or sometimes toxic. Yet when you run a reaction, you can often get both types in an equal mixture, a so-called racemic mixture. True, enantiospecific reactions do exist and they are an active area of research, but it gives creedence to the thought that our existence might not be the result of random actions.

That is my belief anyway.

Answer 8

You must be one of those idiots that think that the world is flat, or that the sun revolves around the earth, just like the Bible says. (Daniel 4:7-8; Psalms. 19:1-6; Joshua 10:12-14 (King James Version)).

Answer 9

In spite of the discovery's that are made there is also mystery left over. The way thing are made, work and what they do are so awe inspiring that we are left to be overwhelmed with God's creations. Science discovers how things work and what they do or have done but not why.

Answer 10

I don't know but I'm very interested in learning.... now about what Jolly1 said about religion, it's true.. religion is dangerous and wasteful because religion was created by us human beings and the rules and such were written by us humans also, so obviously all religions are imperfect and often wrong.... I think that most of the time, it's not what religion you're in but what your beliefs are and what morals you follow.......