science makes adjustments with new discoveries, but "god never changes", so how is science "religion"?

Question

and NO, i dont fall into the "believer" camp ;-)

Answer 1

Science and religion are two different things. Science is objective and religion is subjective. In science you have a hypothesis and test it. If it is successful, you've learned something new. If it isn't, you go back to the proverbial drawing board armed with the knowledge of your failure. Science presents THEORIES that can be accepted and rejected, especially as new discoveries come along. A recent example is the declassification of Pluto. Religion is based in faith and belief in a higher power (I'm guessing God in your case). Many things in science can be proven; however, the existence of God can't be proven. That's why those who believe have FAITH. Those are just a few of the differences. And why do you even think science is religion?

Answer 2

God may never change, but mans image of God sure does. Man created God, and once upon a time we believed Earth was the center of all existence. This was a religious point of view, and to say otherwise might get you in some trouble with the Vatican. But eventually truth can no longer be denied and Religion takes a small step forward and admits what once was blasphemous. We also don't believe god is floating above earth any more, but floating above the universe I assume. I hear a lot that God is the universe, or God is in everything these days, but I'm not sure what the Catholics believe on the subject.

Religions do change with time, and so does God, you just won't hear that from anybody that's religious. But ask any Historian why Christians think God is a large bearded man in the sky and they'll tell you his image was taken from that of Zeus.

Answer 3

1) Sometimes the "adjustments" you say science makes often take hundreds of years

2) Some scientists worship the study of their particular science. Their entire worlds, thoughts and lives are spent focusing around their scientific beliefs to the exclusion of all else. In that sense, science can become a religion, or a "thought system" that those particular scientists live by.

3) Any man-made set of rules or principles to live by can become a "religion"

4) A personal relationship with the Living God, who never changes, is not a "religion". It is a "relationship".

Answer 4

The changes in religion relate to God in the same way that the changes in science relate to the physical laws of the universe.

Religion is man's attempt to understand God.
Science is man's attempt to understand our universe.

Science becomes a religion for some people when they stray from the scientific method and claim science has answers to questions that it actually does not. That is an act of faith.

Answer 5

Will science make an adjustment to include possibility of God acting in His universe?

Answer 6

Science isn't a religion, but "Scientism" is a philosophical world view.

And science does more than make adjustments. On average, major scientific theories are replaced about every 150 years (e.g. Newtonian physics to Einsteinian).

Answer 7

Religion is mostly man made rules surrounding the Bible, Especially when it comes to the curch...science is always changing...God is never changing. Science is formulas, steps, ideas...same with religion....but there is a differance between religion & God.

Answer 8

It includes an idea about God(whether he exists or not, and if he does then what he used to get us here) and has to be accepted by faith. You cannot know that science is 100% behind the existence of the universe. So evolution is a incomplete naturalistic religion, while other religions are completed supernaturalistic religions.

Answer 9

God may never change, but religions do...There is a difference. God is not religion

Answer 10

You're right......God never changes, science does. Therefore science is not GOD, but it can still be a RELIGION. God doesn't equal religion.