Do you have a scientific theory that backs up your beliefs?

Question

I personally suspect that thought is a particulate force like gravity and that the sum total of the collective thoughts are what we call "God." As such, the power of "prayer" and "magic," ESP, "ghosts," precognition, and even telekinesis could be explained scientifically. This really IS just a theory (unlike, say, evolution), so I'm not trying to convince anyone of it, but do you have something in mind that, if true, would explain your belief in God scientifically?

Additional: I am using "theory" in the colloquial sense. It is merely conjecture.

That said, why is no one offering anything? Whjy do people either insis that God is unnatural (or supernatural) and thus not bound by science or that God does not exist? Isn't there anyone who considers the conjecture of the existence of God to have some kind of scientific possibilities?

Answer 1

steve, the first answerer, is wrong. God might not exist, but science certainly does exist. The belief in gods isn't scientific because there are no tests that can be done which might, in principle, prove the matter one way or the other. Where there are no tests, there is no science, and therefore god-belief is unscientific.

The religious make many false assertions regarding the proof of their gods' existence. Some claim that prayer is "answered." In fact, prayer has shown no statistical indication of accomplishing anything except wasting time that could have been put to better use.

Some religious people make circular arguments and expect that no one will notice that they are circular. Steve did that when he said that God validates science. He presupposed at the outset that "God" exists in order to claim that science would otherwise have no validity; that is, he assumed God to prove God, and that's a circular argument. The truth is that science is valid because it proceeds by logically valid methods. Logic determines what is, and what isn't, VALID. Theistic belief does not.

Furthermore, science is efficacious. Faith is not. Science really works. Faith has not. By testing hypotheses and finding out what is possible, science has brought forth and made commonplace what would have been considered "miracles" two thousand years ago. Religion has given us lies, and lies on top of lies, and yet more lies, obfuscations, equivocations, deceptions and evasions to hide the fact that as scientific knowledge advances, faith retreats.

The Earth isn't the center of the solar system or that of the universe. The Sun is the center of the solar system and the universe has no center in space (the center, rather, is 13.8 billion years ago in time). Religious faith would have kept us in the darkness of ignorance. Galileo, Newton, Lorentz, Hilbert, Gauss, and other scientists gave us the light by which we see the real world.

Caveat: There is one religion that might be called rational. It's known as "Cosmotheism," and it follows scientific ideas regarding cosmology and practical ideas regarding the conscious improvement of living things. It does not make the Magian monotheist's "leap of faith."

Answer 2

I believe that God designed the life forms that exist on this planet. We know that the sum cannot exceed the whole. By that I mean that if someone had a pile of parts that they designed and assembled into a workable machine like a computer then the result would be greater than the whole of the individual parts because until they were combined by intelligent design they would only be a pile of parts and not a machine capable of all of the things that computers are capable of.

It's the same with life forms that are self repairing and self reproducing and in the case of humans, capable of intelligent thought and all of the things that go along with that ability. Claiming that random forces acting over time created life goes against every other example of the results of random forces that we can observe. It is only by the addition of intelligent design that materials can combine in such a way that the sum exceeds the whole of the individual parts.

While things like crystals can increase in size as a result of natural processes, in the end all you have is a larger crystal. Life on the other hand breaks all of the rules of the natural order and logic requires that there be something outside of the natural order or "supernatural" to explain how life comes about.

Answer 3

Science has an open mind. It does not categorily say that God does not exist or cannot exist. Its only submission if that on the basis of evidence available before us the case of God is Unproven(A Scottish court's unique way of passing judgement). But we should not fall upon ourselves to declre existence of god by recourse to some existing lacunae in scientific evidence. The sicence is in a state of flux. Even the most dearly held theories of science has to be abandoned., The latest to go overboard is the dethronement of Pluta from the planetary pedestal. The second to disapper are the Black Holes.. Let's not be like overenthusiastic Sir James Jeans. When certain irregularities in the motions of subatomac particles were obsereved he declared hat god was sitting at the centre of the atom and directing the movements. Eienstein jokingly remarded that Shri Jeans was speaking more like a poet than a scientist.

So keep your mind open but do not pray like the agnostic

"O God, if there is a God. Save my soul if I have a soul."

Answer 4

I think that you need learn what the word THEORY means in the field of science, as opposed to on the street corner.

Answer 5

In a way Yes science can proved that there is a GOD...just look at all his creation & you may start by looking into a mirror & sees God greatest creation of all.

Answer 6

I have the word of God for my beliefs. Jesus said, for whosoever shalt call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. By Faith, I believe.

Answer 7

I really don't need science because I have FAITH. It is much more reliable. Science keeps coming up with theories and later proving themselves wrong. Then they try to come up with another explanation. God doesn't change. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I would take my faith over science any day.

Answer 8

The problem is that God is a spiritual being, so we can't apply the laws of nature, science, and the physical laws to him. While there may be a genetic predisposition to belief in God, or being spiritual, usually a lot of it is curiosity, and how one is raised.

Answer 9

God cannot be explained scientifically, that is absurd. Some of us believe and some don't believe. Either way, we are entitled to our opinion.

Answer 10

In what you say, there is some "order'. When there is some order, there must be some 'Ruler', who orders or keep things in order. Who is that Ruler? Think in this direction. All the best !