Do you think religion and science can co-exist?

Answer 1

No. One will destroy the other.

Answer 2

Religion and science do and always have co-existed. Science is here - it's what happens in the world around us. Religion that tries to defy science is fighting an uphill battle - but they have been known to win out to their followers.

Answer 3

Religion and Science is like darkness and light. Vastly different.

Science believes in the Big Bang Theory and evolution.

Christianity deems God as the Creator of all things.

Answer 4

religion and science...huh. well, religion is based on a faith. believing in something that you might not totally know for sure really exist, but that's the power of faith. science is more based on laws, rules, and theories. science is a more definite way of answering things that we may not know of indepth. in a way science and religion can co-exist if they is a simple medium between the two. but on the extreme side. i don't think so. religion will always justify itself by faith and science will always try to disprove or find a logical sense to the faith.

Answer 5

I believe that religion and science can co-exist. If science doesn't match up with the word of God than its not science. Because true science came from God and it proves that there is a God. If you were to write your own ideology and theories in science, that your science is not validated until matches up with what the real author of science actually performed and created. (speaking of God here)

Answer 6

The true religion will be able to co-exist with science. As we learn more, we will continue to see how science and the true religion both link together.

Don't let the comments about religion being based on faith distract you. Blind faith is no faith. Faith is all about truth and that is what science is all about too.

Answer 7

Yes I think they can. I f you're religous you think God created science. Some parts can't co-exist such as macro-evolution and certain theories of creation and how the Earth came into being. But they can co-exist to a big extent, in my opinion.

Answer 8

They definitely can since science exists because of God. God never said in the Bible that the sun went around the earth, so I don't know what the big deal with that was. But yeah definitely. I'm sure that one guy came up with all this.

Answer 9

Well, science essentially is oblivious to god... and rightfully so. Science is looking for natural explanations for natural things. The presumption of science is that everything that can exist and anything that can occur in the universe is, by definition, natural... even if we cannot presently understand it or explain it. Again, this is as it should be.

Religion doesn't see it that way, though:

* At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, SCIENCE says: "We don't know... OK, boys... let's roll up our sleeves, dig in and find out."

* At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, RELIGION (imagine South Park - Officer Barbrady) says: "That's too complicated. God did it. Move along. Nothing to see here. Everybody go home now."

Religion exists in a strange netherworld between two logical fallacies (flaws in thinking)... the 'Argument From Incredulity' ("I can't understand how that might have come to be; therefore, God did it.") and the 'God of the Gaps' fallacy, also known as the 'Divine Fallacy'. The God of the Gaps lives at the bleeding edge of science... and religionists view the advances of science as an encroachment into their territory. They are at war, fighting a rear-guard action against the advance of scientists... and the preoccupied scientists, for the most part, don't even KNOW that they're in a fight.

Science doesn't attack god. That is true from the perspective of science... as I said, science is oblivious to god... he/she/it is simply out of scope. From the standpoint of the religiose, though, science is the mortal enemy. First they took away the earth being the center of the universe, and the focus and purpose of all creation... the god of the gaps got his butt whipped. Next thing you know, lightening is just an electrical discharge... not a manifestation of the wrath of god. The god of the gaps got his butt kicked again. Disease caused by germs, not demons. Ouch. Planets aren't wandering stars... they are bodies that orbit the sun. Whap. Stars aren't little lights placed on the firmament (the solid barrier between heaven and earth... i.e., the sky)... they are actually suns, like our own, unimaginably far away. God of the Gaps gets kicked right in the balls. And on, and on, and on. The God of the Gaps has NEVER won a fight with science... NOT ONCE. Every time there is a scrimmage between science and the God of the Gaps, another gap gets filled up with knowledge, and the God of the Gaps slinks away, with his tail between his legs. Earth isn't 6,000 years old... it's 4.5 BILLION years old. G of G gets kicked in the nuts again. And on and on... and on.

Well, they're tired of getting kicked in the nuts... so, they've changed tactics. Rather than fighting the battle on the basis of knowledge and evidence, they fight it on the basis of lies and misdirection. Science won't engage them... heck... it won't even acknowledge them. So, rather than engaging science, they just appeal to their constituency, which is scientifically ignorant for the most part, and feed them a bunch of plausible sounding pseudo-scientific lies. Take 'Intelligent Design'. The strategy is not to argue this on a scientific basis... it is to "Teach the controversy"... except in the scientific community, THERE IS NO CONTROVERSY. But their dumbass constituency doesn't go to the scientific community for their scientific information... no... they go to the people they TRUST... their SPIRITUAL LEADERS... and they get fed pseudoscience, misrepresentations and lies.

Willful ignorance, lies and delusions are winning. Science is losing. The God of the Gaps, FINALLY, is holding the line against knowledge, reason and critical thought.

So, while it is true that science doesn't attack god, that doesn't really matter... because as long as they PERCEIVE science (in general) to be an attack on god, we're going to be in an ongoing fight. At some point, in the near future, we need to wake up and realize that, or we're going to end up back in the Dark Ages.

Answer 10

Ultimately, they have to. I don't believe that God exists outside of science. Rather, I think He works in ways that are natural. However, there is much about the world and about science that we do not understand. It is ridiculous to discount the laws of science because you believe in God. However, it is also incorrect to discount the existence of a God simply because our tiny brains can't comprehend how the universe fits together.

Answer 11

I think so. I don't think we can fully understand (yet) all the things God has done with and for the universe. Science makes SENSE. It's logical. I look at it like this: The universe is like a giant computer program. God wrote the program and just lets it run, tweeking it here and there. Science is the programing code God used.