Why can't people open their mind, instead of being so rigid. If you want to believe that the world began 6000 years ago, then maybe your thinking about it all wrong. Who is to say 6000 years to an immortal being such as god isn't billions of years to humans like us. Or who is to say that 1 day to him isn't millions of years for us. Science and religion can coexist if you open your mind and stop being so rigid.
Can you open your mind and take gods word and make it work with science? I'm not saying either is right, but who is to say either is wrong.
2006-09-22 07:21:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree.
2006-09-22 07:23:12 · answer #1 · answered by Paley Pale 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
um... so God used his own "deity" years when it really meant something completely different to us? Why would God be so darned confusing and intentionally muddled like that? What a weird deity to deliberately leave something in the Bible that we would obviously interpret as all wrong!
But seriously kiddo, opening our minds doesn't mean letting our minds FALL OUT. We don't have to cram a round concept into a square reality if it just won't fit. Trying to make something work when it just obviously ISN'T doesn't make anyone "closed minded" or "rigid". It simply makes them accepting of what actually makes sense.
2006-09-22 07:22:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
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.
2006-09-22 07:30:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can not accept this I think because they refuse to believe there is someone far more powerful than us all who will judge the wrongs we have done. They think it is easier to deny God, control their own lives and believe when they die nothing will happen. I think you are right though i love science an dI think it is very necessary in our lives.
2006-09-22 07:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by dreamgirl4myboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are many contradictions between the two that say that they cannot. It's just how loosely you believe your holy text
For example
There are some Christians that say that evolution is acceptable, while there are others that are still very faithful in Creation, because it is in the Bible, and the Bible is correct in their eyes. This causes a rift between the science and religious worlds.
2006-09-22 07:24:40 · answer #5 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True science is like true Christians, they are both right.
What is wrong is people using false science to try to disprove God.
I love science but I love God much more.
2006-09-22 07:28:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, one day is the time it takes the Earth to spin on its axis. It doesn't matter whether you're a man or a god. And a year is the time it takes to orbit the sun (plus or minus a quarter of a day). There's no subjectivity involved.
2006-09-22 07:23:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ahhh the imponderable of imponderables
the irreconcilable differences in understanding and interpretation.
Worry not about others beliefs or lack therof. Just find the understanding that works for you. If we all did that it would be better.
2006-09-22 07:23:37 · answer #8 · answered by mysticathiest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say that science is wrong. Following the genealogy of the patriarchs we know how old this earth is. To be 'open minded' to this world is to be 'open minded' to Satan. No thinks.
2006-09-22 07:25:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Anyone who understands the concepts of mathematical proof and scientific proof. That's who is to say one is right and one is wrong.
*hugs southpaw!*
2006-09-22 07:23:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everything's interrelated.
2006-09-22 07:23:28 · answer #11 · answered by eugene65ca 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋