Does Science create more questions about "origin" than it answers?

Question

1) [Evolution/Biogenesis] If complex organisms evolved from simple organisms, what is the source of the simple organisms?

2) [Abiogenesis] If life derived from non-living substance, what is the source of the non-living substance?

3) [Stellar Hypothesis] If the complexities in the cosmos evolved from the simplicities in the cosmos, what is the source of these simplicities?

4) [Big Bang] If the cosmos derived from some phenomina within the universe, what is the source of the universe?

I do appreciate the abundance of knowledge all these fields of science have granted man. Yet, neither field, (or theory) seems to be able to satisfy the eternal question, What/Who is the source of all?

Answer 1

There are scientists who can admit how little they know -

and there are scientists who think they know everything.

Necessarily, if you are in the erroneous idea that you know everything and are thus God, you will come up with some pretty bogus theories about creation such as "primordial soup" as the source of life.

It doesn't smell so good and it really tastes raunch!

Answer 2

I agree, science doesn't provide answers that satisfy me on some questions of origin.

One person already commented here,

"Of course, the purpose of science is to continually question its findings. That's how it checks and corrects itself."

I find it amusing how they claim this, yet the concept of evolution is being taught as fact, and is very rarely questioned.

There was also another comment mentioning a "leap of faith". Sounds kind of like one of the arguments people always use against religion.

What it comes down to, is that they will never be able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the answers to these questions, because the conditions can not be reproduced and observed. The same can be said for religion. So it comes down to what you think is more probable.

Answer 3

Even if we never figure it out, science will still be the best method we have for finding things out.

There is a thing in mathematics and computer science called a 'one way function', variations of which are used in encryption (among other things). Given some chunk of output, it is quite possible you will never figure out what went into that function.

Nature, the world, can be like that. As things get erased and written over by chemical, nuclear and physical process, it gets harder and harder to construct the original things and events.

At no time can you legitimately substitute 'god did it' in place of 'I don't know'. We might fill that blank, or we might not, and no gods need enter the equation.

Answer 4

What you're asking is, when will we get to the beginning? We may never get that far. But this is the case with any explanation you have. What came before the Big Bang? What came before God? Those questions may be impossible to answer, or perhaps meaningless (i.e. Big Bang created space-time, so time did not exist until then).

Answer 5

The possibilities are endless, and yet the likelihood of any theory being accurate is so very low. I am including, of course, religious theories here as well...

Which is why I just have to wait and see, and try to have a good time while everyone else is trying to blow the place up or buy a ticket into a make-believe heaven, or blow themselves into a make-believe heaven. : )

Answer 6

God is of course the source of all creation. There is a lot of science that supports the creation theory. I was left in the dark and my faith was challenged until I found out about Dr. Kent Hovind a creation scientist. You can watch some of his stuff at www.drdino.com. It's informative as well as entertaining.

Answer 7

Science usually creates more questions than it answers. This is clear because the more knowledge you have, the more it branches out to other "dark" areas.

I don't think it will ever to be explain the "source of all" satisfactorily. But it will get very close.

Answer 8

These theories are incomplete and nebulous...but what is our other option now? Religion? This can "explain" origin...
However, religion seems much more unsatisfying when filled with devices for social control and archaic ideas that science has found inaccurate.

Answer 9

Yes, and I agree with all of your points. Science generally creates more questions than answers in any genre.

Answer 10

And they probably never will be able to satisfy the question. It is the search and struggle for truth that matters. If you can't wait for an answer....you'll have to take a leap of faith.