I think one day Science will one day catch up to and empirically verify all my beleifs in Christ. What do you think? Is it not possible?
The dangerous thing I see is the differen't paths each take to the Truth of Jesus Christ. Theology take you strait to the Truth and sets you free, but science has taken a long road with a lot of curves. Sometimes science points to God and sometimes it's moving in the opposite direction. Though ultimately I see it moving towards the same destination.
A fun way to look at it is to see religion as a strait line to the Truth and Science as a giant curve to the Truth. Both ultimately will be pointing to and ending with God, but if you take instantanious velocities on the science curve, you're going to be pointing in the wrong direction. I think that's the dangerous thing about putting so much confidence in science. Are you pointing in the wrong direction?
2006-09-18 03:24:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It depends, if your counting on science verifying Biblical mythology. I wouldn't hold my breath.
2006-09-18 03:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by Pablito 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing. It can however be misused.
Science by itself is a type of empiricism. Empiricism gains knowledge only through what we can observe through our senses so it is limited to the realm of the natural. Because of this it cannot prove nor disprove the anything about God because God is supernatural.
This doesn't mean that all scientists are strong empiricists. Strong empiricism says the only knowledge one can have is from nature, and they reject and type of knowledge that might be obtainable from outside nature. They are thus limited to science, and many will claim that God doesn't exist because the kind of evidence neccessary to prove God is unobtainable. Theists are left to work in the frame work of empiricism then, which is not a fair, because strong empiricism is front loaded with the notion one cannot prove or disprove anything that is supernatural. There are other realms of knowledge that rationalists would say exists that are not natural. Such things are transcendental knowledge, or things we know from intuition. Kant describes these things as the "Noumenon" which is transcendental and the "Phenomenon".which is natural.
When one uses scientific observation to bolster claims about or against God, it steps outside the realm of Phenomenon into Noumenon. People often call this science, but is really an ontological leap. Science doesn't delve in the Noumenon, but it can have implications in it.
2006-09-20 13:41:30 · answer #2 · answered by The1andOnlyMule 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I certainly beleive that God created the laws of nature, and that learning about science is a way of learning about some of His methods.
Yes, science has faults, but so do many religions and religious people (I beleive the doctrine I follow is pefect, but the members - not perfect, so I have to take some of the things they say with a grain of salt).
Understanding the weaknesses in both, I find it enriching to study both and wouldn't dream of excluding one or the other. Yes, I agree that all in all, it's the ultimate same search for truth and happiness.
Best wishes
2006-09-18 10:38:14 · answer #3 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really can't understand why you would think that. Hasn't science already disproved portions of the Bible? Don't most Christians who believe that the bible is literal also refuse to accept any scientific evidence that the Bible is incorrect? Science is not based on thousand year old books, or fairy tales, but numbers and truths that are reasonably undeniable. I put nearly all faith in science, no reasonable person really believes that science is a corrupting force.
2006-09-18 10:29:53 · answer #4 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a man of science not religion but i don't see why many religious followers are afraid of science in case we prove them wrong. Surely if they are right then science will prove it for them? All i want is the truth.
2006-09-18 10:29:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity has a long history of trying to stifle science because it tends to remove the awe, fear and mystery that religion requires to flourish.
Even today, the battle of evolution is a battle of the superstitious against the facts of the universe.
2006-09-18 10:28:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science is good for isolated cause and effect phenomenon. Theories outside of empirical science is speculation in philosophy and changes with the times.
The bible is the word of God and does not change. It is God's revelation to us and is helpful for science and history as well as a blueprint for our lives.
Helpful sites: http://www.answersingenesis.org/
http://www.bible-researcher.com
2006-09-18 10:45:07 · answer #7 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science and Christianity are on parallel paths to the same destination.
2006-09-18 10:28:10 · answer #8 · answered by Red neck 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science is science and Christianity is Christianity. The twain shall never meet. Mark Twain.
2006-09-18 10:34:38 · answer #9 · answered by Rustic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree one day science will point in the right direction it is just that it is more likely Jesus will return before people chose to see it.
2006-09-18 10:55:27 · answer #10 · answered by attb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋