why do people turn a blind eye on things? when a relegious teaching is proved wrong by science with evidences, why do people ignore science and insist that they are right and scientists are wrong?
2006-09-02 02:43:50 · 20 answers · asked by crucio2_2005 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
if religeon is fully correct, why are we made to study science and not religeon?
2006-09-02 03:03:28 · update #1
both science and religions are important in many way but too may be misuse by those who disrespect its teaching and understanding which might lead to their ignorance and arrogance that bring downfall to many direcly or indirectly, yet its wise for those who remember to bare the faith within their believe of their own heart religion and the wisdom knowledge of science in a balancing form of scale where both are equally needed to see beyond other.
2006-09-02 03:04:58 · answer #1 · answered by marxice21 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are none so blind than those that will not see!
Some humans are only capable of understanding what they can see, feel, or touch. If it can't be seen or felt it must not exist.
Have you ever been to the nearest star? No? I guess it must exist because science says it does. But how do you know for sure? Do you know where it is? What makes you so sure?
What is that? You take it on faith? You believe what you are told by science so it must be true?
Go back and read the first sentence again.
2006-09-02 03:04:32 · answer #2 · answered by John B 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well now you know the depth of darkness the human kind is in !!
It will take quite some time for all of them to see the reality - but the good thing is that it is changing. From 1500's to 1800's industrial reveloution and todate, the world has seen a lot. Imagine if there was no Christianity.... We would have been like what we would be in year 3000.... Wow !
2006-09-02 02:48:56 · answer #3 · answered by R G 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i'm an atheist, yet i'm sorry mate. you're being stupid. it fairly is not the religion it is evil. The Crusades and the Inquisition weren't through faith, it became through considerable potential that the Catholic church had, not the religion, the church, and the greed that the folk in value had. The Crusades themselves have been a political land grab, on a similar time as the Inquistion became a political decision as a fashion to safeguard potential in Spain for the Queen. As for the the Puritan witch hunts, nicely, they have been kinda kicked out of england for being insane. we are taught to have faith that they got here right here through fact of non secular freedom. it rather is actual, the Puritans of the previous are the Opus Dei of in the present day. They have been a tad psycho. remember, they did not even come from England....
2016-11-23 19:02:57 · answer #4 · answered by cassone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are ignorant on a lot of things in this world - I am not an expert on this subject, but I think the other side feels they have proven science wrong on certain things, so both sides have used that argument. Everyone needs to be tolerant of others beliefs. People need to remember that people are passionately thinking they are 100% right, while the other side is passionately thinking they are 100% right.
2006-09-02 02:49:47 · answer #5 · answered by rjc6278 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because the truth is science cannot prove that it is wrong. There is no scientific evidence to prove that the Bible is wrong. God's Word is the 100% total truth!!
2006-09-02 03:03:05 · answer #6 · answered by blessedman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientists will tell you their findings are changed by gov't prior to publication, if they wanna get more $ for their re-search grants.
Many scientists previously believed the world was flat.
Scientists: say both coffee is bad AND coffee is good.
As for "evidence", what's "evident" from all the evidence
is "that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God".
The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2006-09-02 02:54:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they believe religion as the absolute answer to everything. They turn a blind eye because once they believe in Science, the very foundations of their faith will crumble.
2006-09-02 02:50:36 · answer #8 · answered by Cascade Ranger 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If u had a girlfriend, and u think she is beautiful, would u care if others think she is ugly? U wouldn't if u truly liked her.
Same thing for religion. U wouldn't care what others say as long as u truly believe in it.
Faith blinds us all, and blind men can never see the light.
2006-09-02 02:59:27 · answer #9 · answered by =_= 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The brains of religious people are wired differently than the brains of rational people. There are some subtleties at work, which seem to escape the notice of most people. They have to do with the nature of 'belief'.
A rational person might say "I believe in the Big Bang." A religious person might say "I believe in creation, as described in Genesis." But these statements are not even remotely similar, with respect to what is meant by the word 'believe'.
For the rational person, the statement of 'belief' in the Big Bang means that they understand that the concept provides a scientifically and mathematically consistent explanation, congruent with the evidence, which accounts for the evolution of the universe from a fraction of a second after the initiating event, up until the present. When the 'inflationary model' came to the fore, rational people said "Well, good... that clears up a few questions and makes things even more coherent." NOBODY threw up their arms and wailed "Oh, no... oh, no... ain't so... ain't so... the Big Bang is the inerrant truth... not this ridiculous, atheistic 'inflationary' model."
See... when we say "I believe in the Big Bang", we don't really mean the same thing as the religious person means when he says "I believe in creation, as described in Genesis," or "I believe in God." Our 'belief' in the Big Bang (or anything else) isn't really a 'belief'... it is more properly a 'paradigm'... a useful way of looking at something, or thinking about something. If additional information is uncovered that adds to the conceptual model, that is a good thing... not a disaster. If part of the conceptual model is discovered to be incorrect, and must be tossed in the trash and replaced with something completely different... that is also a good thing... not the end of the world as we know it. And often, no matter how highly confident we may be of the accuracy or completeness of a particular paradigm, we may have reason to apply a DIFFERENT paradigm to the same thing, in an effort to tease out new insights; for example, we might want to contemplate the potential implications of a change to a theory from the perspective of the Tao Te Ching, the Gaia hypothesis, or ecological homeostasis. We KNOW that all theories are approximations... and that is OK. We KNOW that we don't have all the answers... and that is OK, too. There is nothing wrong with saying "We don't know... yet; but we're working on it."
But these modes of thinking, perceiving, contemplating and understanding are utterly alien to the 'religious' mind. For the religious mind, a 'belief' is not a paradigm... not a useful way of thinking about something... it is an internalized conviction that one knows the absolute 'truth' pertaining to some aspect of existence and/or fundamental reality. 'Beliefs' are one of the key interpretive component filters of the religious person's 'self-description'... a part of what DEFINES them as a person... the very thing that creates their world-view... an underpinning of their 'subjective reality'. Any challenge to one of these internalized 'beliefs' is perceived and interpreted as a vital threat... an attack upon the 'self-description'... and an assault upon their subjective reality.
And here is the key difference: When there is a change in one of the paradigms dealing with a scientific concept, or a new insight into the workings of the universe, to the 'rational' person it merely constitutes an interesting new piece of knowledge and understanding... a new insight. However, if that same new insight, or piece of information (a feature of the universe, for example) seems to threaten a tenet of Christianity, everybody goes to battle stations, goes into 'damage control' mode, for fear that the whole edifice will come crashing down... and ultimately, it will.
So, when a fundie disparages evolution, for example, it really has nothing to do with a genuine, intellectual dispute regarding scientific details... they are generally scientifically illiterate, anyway. Any 'scientific' arguments that they present are inevitably not even understood... they are just lifted from the pre-packaged lies, misrepresentations and pseudo-science that are found on dozens of 'Liars for Jesus' (LFJ) web sites, and parroted. They are in a battle. They are trying to sink science before science sinks them. They are desperate... and science is (mostly, and unfortunately) oblivious to the fact that they are even in a fight, and that somebody is trying to sink them. They are just blithely bopping along, doing what science does... figuring out how nature works.
No... none of this has anything to do with a mere disagreement pertaining to evidence and understanding. It has to do with minds that deal with fundamental issues in an entirely different way. It has to do with a flexible, open-minded (willing to honestly consider alternative possibilities), intellectually honest (willing to question and doubt one's own presumptions) curiosity about the universe, contending with a rigid, unyielding world-view that depends from a conviction that certain delusional faith-based (willful ignorance and magical, wishful thinking) 'beliefs' represent the absolute 'truth' of reality.
We might as well be talking to an alien species, from a distant planet.
When the religious enter a venue like this one, they are (generally) NOT seeking answers, or new information... these might cause them to QUESTION their beliefs, or might put their beliefs at risk. No... they are closed-minded, seeking only VALIDATION of their beliefs... and hence, of their self-description.
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
2006-09-02 02:53:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋