they are sick? oh thats right cuz then they are doomed. Point proven of the stupidty of Christian and the Bible of Bogus
2006-09-04 08:54:25 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
OOOOH goodie, another sweeping generalisation. You can't say this unless you know every single Christian in the world personally. And I wonder if you really know any of us at all.
2006-09-04 09:00:03 · answer #1 · answered by anna 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Christian belief in God leading to no belief in science is nonsequitor. In fact, it was primarily do to the Christian worldview that science was developed. Consider Isaac Newton: he was a man of faith yet he discovered calculus and postulated the basic laws of motion. His faith in God didn't trump his desire to learn science, nor did his science trump his faith in God. The two coexisted.
To really understand the problem between faith and religion, one needs to understand the difference between inductive and abductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning is when one takes a repeated observation and derives truth from it. Imagine a sack of peas. I reach my hand in and pull out a black pea. I do this again, and again, and repeat it 15 times. After doing this 15 times, I come to the conclusion that the bag contains black peas. This is proof by induction. Now imagine I have a warehouse full of sacks of black peas. After looking at the warehouse full of black peas, I conclude that these peas all came from the same farmer's field because they all have the same kind of sacks and they are all in the same geographic location. This is abductive reasoning. The hypothesis was made from some assumptions I made about the peas and their relation to each other. Without any kind of proof, I cannot verify the hypothesis. I simply compare it to other competing hypothesis and try and figure out which one is the most probable explanation.
Christians generally wouldn’t have a problem with inductive reasoning. This is exactly what is done using the science. Christians have a problem believing some of the claims that scientist make using abductive reasoning. They find the claims harder to believe that belief in God.
One such struggle is the debate of the origin of species and man. Evolutionists claim that all life evolved from a single common ancestor. This cannot be observed or tested using inductive methods, so it is an abductive claim. Many scientists have pointed out that the odds of this actually happening are so far fetched, that they cannot rationally conclude that this indeed how it happened. They find it easier to believe that God created life. Now, if God is more probable than the competing theory that evolutionists propose, then it is feasible that God exists and the Christian faith is not bogus.
Science is not the enemy of religion, nor religion the enemy of science. Science is useful, and it answers a lot of questions, but it doesn't answer all questions. It doesn't answer questions like, "Why are we hear?" or "What is my purpose?" A purely naturalistic worldview could do more than attribute the answers to both this questions as cosmological accidents. If this is the case, then the metaphysical world is not real, and things like justice, peace, love, and beauty have no intrinsic value. What religion does is gives value to these things that science cannot.
2006-09-04 18:03:33 · answer #2 · answered by The1andOnlyMule 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and I have great faith in science. I think we have found out many unknown things through theory and speculation. When I get sick I take medication but I also ask God to help the medication do it's job. Medicine does not cure all ills. A great many people have been healed through faith. And for one who believes so doggedly in science perhaps you should leave your mind open to ponder this.....100's of years ago the world was thought flat, no one though man could walk on the moon. Why do you think it not possible that in another 100 years or so there will be definative proof of God's existence.
2006-09-04 19:20:23 · answer #3 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and I do believe in Science. I do rely on God to show favor on the Doctor or Scientist.
2006-09-04 16:06:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are bogus. Sorry - don't mean to be insulting, but who says we don't believe in science? God created scientists. He gave them the ability to think and reason. Biology is a science. I believe most of what I learned is accurate. Chemistry is a science. I believe what I learned there and some of it was "unseen".
2006-09-04 16:00:35 · answer #5 · answered by TJMiler 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
they believe in science. look at the top country's like USA UK France Germany Italy, they have the best scientist doctors from the rest of the world. they have made cures to lots of illnesses so don't say they don't believe in science coz they create science
2006-09-04 18:35:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent question and points raised. In fact religious people not only believe in science and technology, they rely on it totally throughout their lives, it's only when they imagine death that they believe in something non-scientific and imaginary like God.
Why? Because believing in religion or God is a mental illness.
Religion is a serious mental illness. It’s the inability to face the reality of life and the finality of death. It affects 85% of the USA and 75% of US victims are Christians. The more pathetic and desperate a persons life, the more likely they are to believe in a god. People with otherwise empty lives, are the strongest believers. It gives them false hope that there’s a higher meaning to their sad and pathetic lives.
2006-09-04 15:57:18 · answer #7 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Christians do not believe in science? Boy, are you mixed up. Some of our greatest scientist have been avid believers.
2006-09-04 16:02:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They do this because they are hypocrites. They don't ACTUALLY believe that their god will heal them.
But being a Christian sure does have it's political and social perks!
Note to Christians: Grow up and start taking responsibility for your lives!
2006-09-04 16:02:06 · answer #9 · answered by Austinite 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm Christian and I have an open mind. I rely on my faith and on science.
2006-09-04 16:02:22 · answer #10 · answered by songbird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋