why do those fancy-pants scientists think they know more than the bible and god?

Answer 1

Because there results can be proven and most stuff in the bible can't.

Answer 2

I'll make no claim for individual scientISTS, who are human and subject to their own opinions. However, science, as a whole, does not presume to know more than the Bible and God. In fact, the Bible and God are wholly outside of the scope of science--science is about finding natural explanations for natural phenomena. If you want a spiritual explanation for natural phenomena, that is in the realm of religion and philosophy.

Science is simply a description of natural processes, and the possible NATURAL causes behind them. There are many scientists who believe that God is behind natural processes, but that is beyond the description of the processes themselves, which is what science is. They could end every journal article with "And God made this possible," but that would be superfluous--you already either believe that, or you don't.

If you are referring to scientific findings that contradict that which is said in the Bible, that still says nothing about scientists thinking that they know "more" than the Bible. Data that don't fit with Biblical explanations are discovered through exactly the same methods as those data that do fit. Scientists can't be expected to run every piece of data through some sort of Biblical "filter" to eliminate those which don't correspond. That would violate the ethical code of science, which says that scientists have to publish or somehow make public ALL their work. If they hide something, or make up data, they will be found out when other scientists can't replicate their results.

Answer 3

Those scientists have theories that can be proven in the lab and are fact! "Faith" is just that! Faith and blind otherwise it would be called "Fact". The only trouble I have with science is the time lines they come up. When they can date a rock merely on the patina that has accumulated on the surface. Also the bible was written by people from 2,000-3,500 years ago. I believe the knowledge of we have accumulated today surpasses that of what they knew then. After all they once believed the Earth was the center if the Universe, the Earth was flat, and the Earth was a static place not changing. All of which has been disproved.

Answer 4

Maybe you need to ask if a book first written over 3000 years ago and re-written at the whims of Kings and translated into nearly every language on Earth can be absolute truth any more than the findings of science. Or more to the point, is the person who believes that book and the teachings that stem from it to be absolute truth any better than a scientist who has seen the results of experiments?

Science and religion are incompatible.

Science and God are complimentary. They are just two ways of looking at the same phenomenon that is life on Earth.

Answer 5

Knowledge gets in the way of faith. People start to think about what is possible in human terms and say that God is non-existent. Scientist are especially hard hit by this. I find it funny however that a scientist who stared out to disprove Noah's ark has since become a Christian stating that the things he found in what was the know world at the time of Noah support a massive flood which would have killed all life. He also leads an archaeological team now in search of remains of the Ark. Another group of scientist started out to prove by DNA that all of us could not have come from Adam and Eve. Two of those have now become Christians because what they have found so far is that there is one piece in one strand of DNA that is present in all women(they have only been testing women and maternal genes so far) and this is DNA which would come from the maternal side. EVE

Answer 6

I don't know.I get all of my information through old
Childcraft Encyclopedia books.

Who wrote those?Some of the artwork looks a little
nancy-ish as if a particularly well coiffed scientist made them,though some of the writing style seems to be reminiscent of God's earlier work with the Cannanites.

Answer 7

Okay tell you what. Next time you get sick...don't goto the doctor. After all a scientist discovered whatever it is that you're going to take. Since you don't think we know anything...then don't take medicine. Just ask god to make you better.

If this isn't natural selection in action i don't know what is.

I passed an O-Chem II final. God didn't.

Answer 8

Because they DO know more that you bible thumpers that naively take the words of a 2000 year old book over scientifically supported data.

Answer 9

Dear Justin, as a 43 year old. overweight, male midget cross dresser (see link) you should know that you probably would like to wear fancy pants yourself. Having fun?

Answer 10

They really don't.They're just ignorant geeks who probably haven't even laid one eye on the Bible. Don't listen to those responses that said there isn't a God, trust me, there is a God.
Love to help.

Answer 11

Because the Bible's no science textbook. And the fanciest pants God wears are Hagar stretch-slacks! He's really let himself go in the last few millennia.....