Why are christians the way they are with science?

Question

(yes I know it's a sweeping generalisation and I don't care). I mean they are all fine with science when it's developing new drugs to cure illnesses, new materials which make things safer or more efficient, faster more efficient ways of getting around ect. How come then science becomes the evil of the world and devil's main tool for killing us all when it tries to save lives through organ cloning, save the lives of starving African children with genetic modified crops, tries to work out how the universe really works and where it really came form, try to work out the processes by which life develops on Earth, tries to find a precise age for the Earth, ect. So decide is science a good thing or a bad thing. (Being an atheist I think science is an incredibly good thing and something that should be encouraged at all times as it can only benefit everyone).

Answer 1

Christians are afraid of science because it confronts them with the real world and therefore makes it more difficult for them to hide away from reality in their fantasy world.

Answer 2

You raise an interesting topic here! I agree with you, I have found that with most christians, or religious people, that science is good when it helps them . . . but when it starts poking around "where it doesn't belong" it turns into evil. I have wondered the same question before.

I have decided that it's because it is challenging a belief system. I, personally, believe that people created a supreme being and places such as a heaven and a hell for many reasons. Maybe to make it easier to explain why a 5 year old's mother was raped and murdered, "She's in heaven now :)" I believe all of the generic phrases such as, "God works in mysterious ways," or "God is the only one who can create life and take it away." are all said do to lack of an intellectual, logical answer.

Anytime science screws around with anything that has to do with life, or anything else that could raise a question about that all might God, it scares people. Science takes away the "just because" attitude about God and puts some reason and thought behind it. A lot of people don't know how to deal with that.

Answer 3

They're afraid of change. Think about it this way (or don't; it's up to you): Christians follow what the clergy tell them to follow. Clergy don't want any evidence contrary to their interpretations of the Bible to become accepted. If such evidence were accepted, and a piece of the Bible were proven false, then the Bible could not be considered perfect. If the Bible isn't perfect, 2 things happen: Other parts could be considered innaccurate too and it would disprove that God and the Bible are perfect, a major religious concept. If this happens, people leave Christianity and the clergy have influence over fewer people.

The other scientific stuff, cars, atomic stuff, drugs, internet, etc. are not mentioned in the Bible, so it cannot be used to disprove parts of the Bible. Therefore, clergy have no reason to hate such advancements. Besides, I don't think anyone would remain a Christian if doing so meant giving up medecine and vehicles.

Answer 4

I love science. especially proved science. but when it comes to atheists telling me that God can't exist because of evolution which is a theory full of holes. and that the earth is billions of years old. the geologic timescale method uses the theory of evolution to prove itself and in some cases evolution uses the geologic timescale to prove itself, any atheist will agree that circular reasoning does not work, and on to radiometric dating, if the conversion of uranium to lead lets off helium (which is small enough to raise through the crust of the earth) where is the overabundance of helium that should be up here? Science will never be able to prove God false. because God is real. that is all I have a problem with.

Answer 5

I think that it is a "specific" group of sciences that offend.. your observation is very astute.. drugs and food additives , good ... Stem cell research, Evolution.. Bad.. oh and global warming .. not.
So it depends on the science.. not all religious people are against all science, and religious is a relative term.. how religious are you ? .. but to the gentleman right above me.. I would have to strongly disagree, it is the faithful that question science first

Answer 6

Christians do not hate science, they invented the scientific methodologies. When science was lost to the dark ages it was the Protestant Christians that revived the disciplines that became modern science.

Christians reject faulty science that draws conclusions on incomplete evidence. Evolution theory is an example. The conclusion of evolution is based on evidence that can also lead plausibly to other theories. It remains unproven and the evidence remains incomplete.

The theory that evolution precludes creation is also born with a manifest lack of evidence.

It takes a lot of faith to believe that a new bone similar to an old bone must prove conclusively that the new evolved from the old.

Therefore the evolutionists that reject any evidence that they don't like and have no actual evidence of a lower order life evolving to a higher order life, are in fact, a religion, accepting on faith that their logic is superior to any other logic, and their lack of evidence notwithstanding.

So Christians love science, but they reject the faith of evolution.

Answer 7

Christians object to the teachings of evolution because scientists make the philosophical assumption there is no god and work from there. Then once that hits liberals and other atheists, they proceed to bash people that dont accept this atheistic philosophy that comes in the name of "science." Take note that 40% of scientists do believe in a god that answers prayers! You along with others have been duped into thinking it is science VS. religion, when it is atheistic philosophy VS religion.

We object to cloning because it crosses the line "playing god."

We object to the stem cell research that involves destroying viable human life because we believe human life is sacred.

Christians dont stand in the way of good man-benefitting science. We only object to unethical and philosophically biased sciences that are rooted in disrespect for human life and disrespect towards peoples beliefs.

Answer 8

Christians have a leap of faith. Science has proof! I am an atheist too.Christians just follow it because they feel that if they don't it would hurt them..Hello..there is no god out there...people are so gullable and ignorant.

have you read the riddle of epicurious?
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
http://leados.blogs.com/blog/2005/04/riddle_of_epicu.html

Answer 9

Christianity claims to explain the Universe's inner workings.
When science conflicts with that, they get upset.
Its not rocket science (wink).

Answer 10

To my knowledge, most Christians have no problem with science unless it involves things like taking a live ( abortion, partial birth abortion , creating clones to destroy for various reasons, fetal stem cell research. * we have no problem with aduklt stem cell research as it does not takes live and it is proven to be the only one that is effective anyway)
Some of the examples you give do not apply and you , as you say, ARE generalizing us into categories that we do not belong.

Heck , we don't agree with evolution but we don't stop it from being taught AS A THEORY. We just want our beliefs mentioned too. But evolutionists are afraid of us and use the courts to block us.

To bad they fear other beliefs so. Science is supposed to be open minded....