Why do atheist think that our accumulated scientific knowledge......?

Question

..... disproves God's existance? Why would the Bible have anything to say about Dinosaurs? Why do they think proven scientific facts are at odds with God's word, the Bible.

God spoke the Big Bang into existance in Genesis 1:3 "Let there be light"

My contention is not that Science seeks to disprove God but that athiests claim that it does.

The six days of creation are considered by many Christians to be "Age Days". It is no less true because of this

Answer 1

You have it the wrong way around here!

Answer 2

The atheists you know could be the dishonest type. Some of us are simply angry at spiritual people or dislike religion enough that we rebel without thinking. In fact, most people have not carefully thought through their views, regardless of their religious orientation.

If you have found a source of comfort and guidance in your religion, good for you, and I hope it sustains you through your life.

The fact is: science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God. Honest atheists simply state that there is no evidence for the existence of a God, and point out that generally the best explanation for any phenomenon is the simplest one.

Namely, the simplest explanation for life and the universe does not involve the the complicating factor of a God.

It is a common misconception to believe that evolution is a fact. It is another misconception to believe that evolution can explain the existence of life.

Evolution is merely a theory, albeit one with a whole lot of evidence that makes a lot of sense. Some scientists get so frustrated with people who disagree with them that they end up claiming evolution is a fact, which is a terrible disservice to the scientific method.

Evolution merely is a principle explaining how species are created and change over long periods of time. It says nothing about how life began; this is a far more difficult problem than most people realize. There is no more proof for an accidental origin of life than for it being created by God.

Good science is always backed-up by observation or experiments, and there is no way to go back 2 billion years and observe the first cell. Evolution is a superior explanation solely because it has some evidence and because it is the simpler explanation.

Ultimately, the most satisfied people on either side of this debate will be those who seek the truth, regardlesss of the consequences, regardles of whether the facts support their position or their opponent's. We all need to avoid choosing beliefs simply because we want them to be true, or they make us feel better, or because we don't like our opponents.

Answer 3

I dont think science wants to disprove gods existence, but science is based in fact, whereas the bible is viewed by many as a collection of stories, none of which have any factual evidence.

Some people are scientifically minded, wanting evidence and proof to show how things work, where they come from, etc, and science has been able to provide those answers for them.

Others are happy to accept the words of the bible and dismiss the evidence of evolution as lies.

Im not having a go at you, im not religious, im a science person myself, but I have hopefully answered your question without offending you.

xxx

Answer 4

So far, science hasn't proved or disproved God's existence. Belief in a deity is about faith, not about science. Atheists just don't believe in a "god," although some believe that there is a collective intelligence to the universe. One man's religion is another man's myth. When a religion no longer explains man's fears of the unknown (like thunder and lightning), it passes into history as a myth. The success of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the other "modern" religions is due to the fact that they don't try to explain too much that can easily be disproved by science. Until someone actually comes back from REALLY being dead and tells us all about it, people will just have to keep taking things on faith or choose not to.

Answer 5

Well, scientific fact IS at odds with the Bible, or at least a literal interpretation of it. However, I don't think many atheists would claim that science disproves god's existence, but perhaps they would claim that through applying the scientific method to god and religion one can arrive at the conclusion that's it's all a bunch of unsubstantiated nonsense.

Answer 6

Well, lets see....the Bible claims bats are birds and whales are fish...... Science has shown bats and whales to be mammals, not fish or birds......

the bible supposedly tells the stories of creation. If it were accurate, why would it leave out 65 million years and the creation and destruction of other life forms? The only reason the Bible DOESNT Mention dinos is because it was written about 1800 years prior to the discovery of fossils by desert dwelling simpletons that had no real concept of the age of the earth.

It cracks me up that you people beleive in a book written that long ago by these desert dwellers and accept their explanations without question, but you refuse to accept scientific evidence for the age of the earth.....

Answer 7

When the bible was supposed to have been written dinosaur bones hadn't been found then that is why they aren't mentioned. Scientific facts have proved that there was a man called Jesus who was a preacher around at the time when Jesus the son of God was around, enough said I think.

Answer 8

I do not think in anyway that science says there is no god. It is the believers that say that. Not any one else. Science only defends its self from religion. It has never attacked a god in anyway that I know of?

Repeating myself.

Science has as far as i know has never ever tried to prove religion wrong.

Atheist just simply don't believe there is or was a god and it has nothing to do with science.

Answer 9

there is a theory called "intelligent design" -- a theory created by scientists, it states that after extensive research and study, they just could not find the real origin of our existence. the intelligent design theory states that there is a CREATOR -- not necessarily by the name GOD... but there is a powerful being that created the whole universe. no scientists could ever figure out where we came from, nobody can prove that the big bang theory and the steady state theory are accurate.

if people say that why should we believe in something that has not been seen or scientifically proven... not everything in this world can be scientifically explained -- where the universe came from. sure, you could say "big bang" or "steady state" -- how can you prove that? have you seen it happen?

the topic or debate about where we really came from... i think it's just science versus religion -- but up to now, nobody can still explain how it happened.

if you're going to ask me which side im on? i like studying science and learning, but i've seen miracles -- things that cannot be explained by science.

Answer 10

Because we have discovered how the universe came into existance. The big bang, This does not require a god.

Answer 11

Humanism is an ideological, political, and religious belief that denies the existence of God. Atheists are humanist, as are new-agers, and many others. The theory of evolution was developed by humanists to create a world devoid of God. Humanism today is prevalent in our media, schools, and government. The religious humanist believes, as the Humanist Manifesto states, that the religions of the world are outdated due to a vastly increased knowledge and experience, and are powerless to solve the problem of human living in this time. Christians know the power of God, but to the humanist the human is divine and must be responsible for furnishing adequate human goals and providing for the spiritual needs of today. Because humanists believe that the universe and its peoples are self-existing and not created, they believe humanism is the only religion capable of leading humans along the evolutionary path...

God created the world before He created dinosaurs, and before they became extinct. They needed a place to live, after all. It's a common misconception that the Bible doesn't refer to dinosaurs. Job 40:15 refers to a large animal called "Behemoth". Many scholars suggest this could refer to dinosaurs. Behemoth has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24:
- It “eats grass like an ox.”
- It “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”)
- Its “bones are like beams of bronze,
- His ribs like bars of iron.”
- “He is the first of the ways of God.”
- “He lies under the lotus trees, In a covert of reeds and marsh.”

Furthermore, Job 3:8, Job 41, Psalm 74:14; 104:25-26, and Isaiah 27:1 refer to a sea-going reptile known as Leviathan. Leviathan is probably a reference to kronosaurus or liopleurodon. The word "dinosaur" isn't found in the Bible, but the characteristics of Behemoth and Leviathan indicate these were probably dinosaurs.