Is cientific discovery destroying God?

Question

That is to say, God used to get credit for all sorts of things that have been explained through the years by scientific and logical thinking. Will there come a point when so much has been discovered that the concept of God will have to be updated or vanish? ...something like how we look at Greek mythology now?

oops... .scientific

preacher: How pompous of you to think that your beliefs are 100% correct.

Answer 1

Let's hope so...

Answer 2

I don't believe so. It really all depends on how one views the entity of God. I believe that science simply continues to uncover the smallest of intricacies that the Great Architect made use of when that entity went to work. It neither detracts or promotes the idea of God, just gives humans more knowledge about how the world around them works. There is no need to separate scientific advances and God, they compliment each other quite nicely.

People who insist on taking the writings that compose the Bible as literal are always going to have a problem reconciling the two though, no surprise there. I always wonder how they would like to function without electric lights, medicines, their cars - even reading their Bibles is possible because of science and the development of the printing press. I find their rejection of modern science to be nothing but cherry picking - they use the old scientific advances without thought but reject modern advances out of hand.

I'm not a Catholic, and do not belong to any Christian denomination, but I always found it gratifying that Pope John Paul had the intelligence to acknowledge and appreciate the advances of science.

Answer 3

The more the scientific discoveries greater will be the ignorance of man. Even now Man does not know how much more is there to be discovered .So when will he know that he has exhausted the list or reached the last item on the list?
Do you remember a hundred years back a man in US patent office resigned his job as he was sure that every thing has been discovered? So will be the future.
God and Greek mythology are two altogether different things.
God always keeps in touch with his devotees and will do so in future also. Science can carry on with its blind man's search of the elephant for eternity.

Answer 4

people believe in what's called a "god of the gaps". the idea of god was invented to explain what is not understood about the world around us. science gives us explanations for these things though. so further science progresses, the less that people need god.

the answer "god did it", by the way, is never an answer based on anything. people usually say it in this sort of context, "we can't come up with any explanation for this might've happened, so we will assume that god must have done it." -- it's a bad system from the start though. people should only be making assertions on what they know., not what they DON'T know.

despite all this though, people will probably still continue to believe in one form of god or another for three reasons.

1. people don't pay attention to science anyway.
2. many claims about god are not falsafiable, and therefore remain as possible explanations.
3. people WANT to believe in god., and they will lie to themselves if that's what it takes to keep their story intact.

the most we can hope for is that people one day give up on the iron age books, namely the bible and koran. once this happens, war will probably become rare. --- christianity is on its way out thanks to our lifestyles and exposure to new ideas. unfortunately, islam is still operating similarly to how it did a thousand years ago. this is just one of the many reasons why it's so important that we liberate muslim countries from religious oppression.

Answer 5

Not at all, as scientific discovery points more clearly to a God than mere faith. My favorite example: the Creation story, written centuries ago, is a fairly accurate representation of the steps described by astronomers and others who theorize on the creation of the universe and earth. The language is written more poetically in the Bible, but the stages, or "days" are pretty much in the right order.

To look at the wonderful complexity of DNA, how could a person draw the conclusion that the result was simple random chance of the earth, the elements and the reactions to create life in the very beginning all happened in such way to lead to humanity today?

Answer 6

Ok let put it this way religon is a primative science. Like science religon was used to explain things , religon was used as a means to explain stuff back then when people with their curios minds wanted answers but since sicence was too primative to explain it ,religon was used as a means to quech their thirst for knowlege. Back in the day of greek mythlogoy their wasn`t any kind of science to explain stuff,so most religons used to be polytheism, which basically means they had many different god in their religon to explain many diffirent aspects of their life, like for instance spring was explained by some nero god holding some other god ceres i think captive ,and he would only let her go for a short period to visit her mother and during that period their was spring, and when she was held captive it was winter and thats how they explained the diffirent seasons. But then came along early science and some of stuff around them could be explained through science. Thus old religons such as the greeks were no longer needed. But their was still a few stuff science could not explain, such as where we come from,and thus along came monotheism which means a religon has only one god(eg christians), since they no longer needed manys gods to explain many diffrent things about life, since science could now explain most of stuff around then.But their was still a few question which science could still not answer, therefore religon was scaled down to explain the few unaswered questions. But now with modern science we can now even explain almost everthing even where we come from,therefore religon is no longer needed to quench our thirst for answers. So to answer your question. Yes god will diappear in the near future as science improves and will be veiwed in a similar manner as the greeks religon.

Answer 7

Science and Technology will someday progress to make God useless and outdated, like the telegraph and 8-track cassette.

Answer 8

The "God of the Gaps" problem is about 150 years old. It helped usher in liberal theology and secularism. People are generally more astute now. If you do a Google search on Science & Theology, you will see that it is a growing field. So the answer is no.

Answer 9

I think it's destroying a lot of the myths religionists have invented about God but it is revealing the natural wonders of God's universe. Science will be the means of understanding God in the future.

Answer 10

Of course. Mankind takes a long time to get over it's superstitions and reliance on mythology but it eventually happens. Probably not in our lifetime, but eventually we will be enlightened enough to recognize religion as simply an elaborate mythology and we will no longer need it.

Answer 11

It shouldn't. Science USED to be Man's explanation for how God was believed to do His work.

Nothing scientific will EVER be able to prove that God's not there.