Christians?

Question

Why do you believe that the scientific method and the subsequent explanations of the mechanisms of life and our universe are a threat to your beliefs and your preferred way of living?

Answer 1

I don't. I think science is one way of finding out some of God's methods...it's a wonderful thing.

best wishes

Answer 2

I don't.

I would hope that the faithless would employ the scientific method before coming to hasty conclusions about God and his faithful. Many, however, will skip over the research part after making their hypothesis, and then they will claim their hypothesis to have been proved true, though they did not take the necessary steps to prove or disprove it.

As for "the subsequent explanations of the mechanisms of life and our universe," some explanations are plausible, others are not, and still others I don't have enough information to comment on one way or the other. But whatever the case may be, they are theoretical explanations born in the minds of men looking to explain the wonder that is creation. I would think that any scientist worth half his or her metal has to say, at some point, "This is the best we can come up with." When you get down to the really tiny stuff, scientists are aware that matter behaves in a certain way depending on what the scientist is looking for it to do. That is, observable phenomena sometimes cannot be independently verified, since each scientist is looking for infinitesimal matter to do different stuff...and, lo, the matter does indeed do different stuff in the same laboratory conditions.

Answer 3

First, I must say, that you assume that we are threatened by science. We are not threatened by it.

We just believe what we believe, that's all. Science to this point has proven nothing as to the origins of man or the universe. But more importantly they have not proven the "why" of their theories.
Why would any animal evolve? Why would it need to? And where are all the fossils of the links? When science can answer those questions, then they might have something. Until then what they have now is simply educated guesses and that is all they are.

Answer 4

It is not a threat to me. Evolution cannot touch my salvation, nor can it effect my relationship to the Creator. What irks me is the acceptance of evolution as a scientific fact and the biased labeling of Intelligent Design as "religion". So one can be taught in school as unarguable truth, while the other is forbidden, even as a counter-opinion.

I have had good conversations with evolutionists who were nice enough to provide scientific reasoning as to why they feel the evolutionary theory is valid. For me, math has to be the deciding factor. Mathematical probability, as given by Hoyle, states that the chances of life to spontaneously evolve out of a primordial soup is one in 10 to the 40,000 power. Now scientists agree that anything beyond one in 10 to the 50th power is consider an impossibility. So imagine adding 39,950 more zeros onto those odds!

Can we use math in proving the existence of God? Actually, yes we can. God has provided the proof through prophecy. No other "holy book" can provide prophecy beside the Bible, and it is the Bible that declares a Creator God. Prophecy traces the origin of the Bible to being outside of our physical time domain. It reads in Isaiah 41:22-23,

"Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yes, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed and see it together."

So, let's look at this mathematically. Dr. Peter Stoner (in an analysis that was carefully reviewed and pronounced to be sound by the American Scientific Affiliation) states that the probability of just eight prophecies being fulfilled in just one person is 1 in 10 to the 17th power. However, Jesus fuflilled 300 specific prophecies. A few of which I have documented here...
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/in_the_volume_of_the_book.pdf

This is not even including the incredibly detailed prophecy regarding the regathering of Israel, the rise of Alexander the Great and later Ptolemy in the book of Daniel, and much, much more.

So, mathematically, the odds are in overwhelming favor of the Creator God written in the pages of the Bible rather than in the overwhelming odds against evolution.

Answer 5

I don't but then I don't find creationism so limiting either. The short version. Think of Evolution as a tool not a threat.

Answer 6

Interesting in reading your responses, all the christians answers are basically saying, "Huh, what are you talking about?" and all the atheists are saying, "Yeah, it's a threat to them!".

lol I love it when other people try to tell me what I believe and what I think. Classic.

Answer 7

I don't know if its a threat but it definitly puts them outside of their comfort zone. I think all people feel uncomfortable with information that does not match their world view. No one wants to be wrong. (not saying that Christians are - just saying everyone in the world wants to be right about their life and their life after death)

Answer 8

There's nothing that's a threat to my beliefs or my way of living. It is what it is.

Answer 9

Not ALL christians elieve that, just the miseducated, ignorant ones do. they really have got to start revoking the licence for uneducated preachers to teach. ALL church leaders should have to be university grads, not juse bible college attendees They should have to be ordained.

Answer 10

the way we was raised beliefs the good book