which religions do science most agree with?

Answer 1

I thought science was a religion, so many people say they believe in it.

The beauty of it is that it keeps changing to suit the latest thing you are trying to prove.

Of course it is really only for clever people. If you are not clever enough you won't be able to understand it. You'd have to leave it to the experts. They know of course. You can just repeat what they say.

You mustn't ask awkward questions which can't be explained. Obviously clever people don't ask those sort of questions and anyway you wouldn't be clever enough to understand that.

In a way that's one of it's most attractive points. You don't have to think. You can just repeat what you have learnt at school and you don't have to wait until you are old enough to decide for yourself. In fact deciding for yourself is very much discouraged. People are very loyal, if the are born in it they will defend it to their death.

All the state schools are your religion and they don't accept 25% of other faiths and will definitely not teach anything that would blow a hole in your religion. Others have to bow to your religion in order to integrate and you don't have to pay any respect to theirs. But, and here's the good bit, you can accuse them of intolerance and bigotry. After all, you are scientific, which is so reasonable and impartial and so much cleverer.

Plus everyone wants your religion to justify and to prove theirs. It's great, your religion is the chief, the kingpin. All the others turn to you for approval

It is all so very logical and reasonable. Once you've got started, nothing can stop you. If you are successful you will be able to avoid the obvious and fundemental issues by a concentration on detail. Any difficulties just need a little imagination to fill in the gaps which might otherwise leave you seeing through it.

Anything you don't know, well you are working on it and will get there soon. After all the progress you've made and all the light you have shed on the ignorance of other religions - reasons why men have to make them up, the need for men to control others, the foolish superstitions and the obvious similarities of all the other widely contradictory religions, that sort of thing - well you must be right.

As you get more advanced and reputable you don't even need imagination, you can just ignore contradictary facts, your authority and time spent in it will be enough. If you become an expert at it and everybody thinks you are very clever you can even use evidence that disproves your religion, to prove it !

And best of all you don't need to worry about conscience.You can just reason and logic that away and do just about whatever you like. It's all cause and effect anyway. If you do need a justification you always have a fall back because, after all, it is for the good of mankind. You know, the relief of suffering and making life better for others, that kind of thing. If you do something wrong, just don't admit it. You will probably be able to use your position to cover it. And if others use your findings for ill then of course it's not your fault.

Your main worry will be that rare person who thinks critically. Don't worry, you are safe.You can play the numbers game to make him look odd and that he can't be right when so many are ranged against him. It is too established to topple. As long as you don't go back to the simple first principles. People never look at those . They only go on rumour and hearsy and opinion. They are so credulous.

Great religion, science.

Answer 2

Science and Religion are two opposite ends of the spectrum on reality. They SHOULD complement each other, rather than oppose. Science deals with the natural, observable world. Religion deals with the supernatural, unseen world.

Religion fears science because science is self-correcting. When theories are disproven, they are abandoned in favor of the new evidence. Science changes all the time as new information is discovered.

Religion is immutable. The fruits of the Nicene Council- The New Testament as we know it today and the Old Testament- are now forever etched in stone. Nothing anyone says or does will change it. Is this a bad thing? No, not in itself. It's a bad thing when people take everything in it to be 100% literal.

Therein is the problem, and why science and religion clash when really they are two distinguished parts of a whole- whole existence.

Answer 3

Science does not agree with any religion. It is like asking which apples the butcher prefers while doing his job. It has nothing to do with apples.

Science is about the here and now. The real and investigation of the imagined. First there is phenomena, then science tried to figure out why.

If you can produce an honest to goodness miracle, then scientists will come out of the woodwork trying to explain it, even if it means explaining God. Religions have a huge aversion to scientific scrutiny, so they are not examined by scientists, only other religions.

When something other than simple belief and opinion become part of religion, then you might get a scientist interested. Until then, it is not science in any way, shape or form.

Answer 4

Albert Einstein --- “If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism."

Hi, interesting question. I doubt whether any other religion can sit as comfortably with science as Buddhism does. This is because Buddhism is just as concerned with observable cause and effect as science. Buddhism has no quarrel whatsoever with scientific explanations of how the physical universe operates.

A fundamental teaching of Buddhism is that of Dependent Origination which basically states that 'all things arise and pass away according to conditions' and science objectively explores, tests and describes the conditions and processes which determine the way things are in the world. Investigation of phenomena is essential in Buddhism too (it's a factor of 'awakening'). The main difference between the two is that Buddhism focusses primarily on mental rather than physical realities. This is where science is reluctant to tread because we only have direct access to our own minds ( feelings / perceptions / thoughts / sense data etc) so there are the problems of remaining objective about our own rapidly changing subjective experience whilst providing verifiable results or proofs that others can repeat. It's hard to apply scientific method to one's own mental experience! Thankfully the Buddha taught various methods for calming the mind, increasing awareness and stopping all the mental commentary so that it becomes easier to know objectively for oneself how our minds and bodies actually are. This is why Buddhism is not a 'faith'; the Buddha encouraged his followers to test and verify his teachings for themselves. As one makes progress in meditation, one naturally develops confidence from one's own experience that the Buddha described the world accurately but this is not the same as a blind faith in an idea or concept or a set of rules for living.

Basically Buddhism agrees with the sciences, it just continues further by applying the scientific spirit to an internal investigation of one's own mind, body and sense of self. Albert gets the last word…

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity" ---- Einstein

Answer 5

The marxists would like to have you believe that science is secular. However, the truth is that scientific thought was invented by christians and its development is almost solely due to the efforts of christians and jews throughout history.

Further, the question is ignorant. Religion has existed for FAR longer than science has and science is severely limited to only a tiny sphere of the human conditions. A better question might be, which religions most agree with science. The answer is, of course, judaism and christianity.

Islam, in particular, is on the opposite side of that spectrum. Having contributed nothing to human civilization at all, let alone science, Islam actively rejects all enlightened thought, especially science. Just one reason every Islamic country is a cesspool of ignorance, poverty and desperationg.

BTW, although not a religion, marxism also rejects science for the most part. This is pretty hard to understand unless you read a book like 1984 and see the pattern of distortion and lies that is antithetical to science. A good, specific example of this is evolution. Evolution is a complete failure as a scientific hypothesis. As in, despite a hundred years of testing, it has failed every test across fields. In short, every observation you would expect to see due to evolution, as our scientific sophistication grows, is simply absent. Strong proof against the theory. And yet, it is treated as fact for political reasons. As dogma, it serves the interest of marxism as a way to make religion seem irrational. The goal here is to undermine the morality of people by attacking their faith. Without that morality, it becomes easy to get away with the heinous crimes (for example, genocide) that always take place when marxists control the government. Although the goal is to destroy religion, it simultaneously destroys science. Scientific evidence and inconvenient facts are ignored in favor of marxist dogma.

Answer 6

Islam
http://www.nooran.org/en/index.htm

Answer 7

Religion and science never compliment each other. One is fact and the other is within the mind. Was going to say fiction but as I believe in God that seemed a wrong choice of wording.

Answer 8

Science is about nature there is no supernatural in science so the religion with the least supernatural stuff wins! Though it begs the question as to how you define religion.

Answer 9

Science: Finger tips can be used for identification
Quran: Does man think We cannot assemble his bones? Yes . . . We are able to put together in perfect order the very tip of his fingers.

Science: Atoms are found in pairs
Quran: Glory be to Allah, Who created in pairs all things that the earth produces, as well as their own (human) kind, and other things of which they have no knowledge.

Science: Honey is healing for mankind
Quran: Comes from their (the bees) bellies a drink of varying colors, wherein is healing for human being. Verily in this is a sign for people who reflect.

Science: Separation of salt and sea water
Quran: Verily He is the One Who has joined the two seas: this is palatable and sweet, and this is salty and bitter. And He made a barrier between the two of them, and a partition that is forbidden to be passed.

Science: Milk as a wholesome meal
Quran: And verily for you in the cattle there is an instructive sign (lesson). We give you to drink of that which is in their bellies from between excretions and blood, pure milk palatable to the drinkers.

Science: Oceans have darkness under their surfaces
Quran: Or as darkness in a vast, deep sea, there it covers waves, from above which are waves, from above which are clouds. Darkness on top of each other. If a man stretches out his hand, he can hardly see it. And whoever Allah does not make light for him, for him there is no light.

Science: Iron and steel
Quran: And We sent down iron, in which is severe strength and benefits for mankind. Verily in this is a sign for people who reflect.

Science: Sun and Moon
Quran: It is not permitted to the sun to catch up with the moon, nor the night outstrip the day. Each floats in an orbit.

Science: Creation of living creatures from water
Quran: We made from water every living thing.

Science: Mountains have roots inside the earth
Quran: Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse, and the mountains as pegs?

Answer 10

you are going to have to put up with some mind numbing gibberish. I've tried reading some of the scientific justifications put out by various religions and honestly it's cretinous drivel aimed at slack jaws who might swallow such pseudo scientific clap-trap. not one religion has one grain of empirical proof to prove its true. faith is the only justification for religion and that should be enough for a lot of people, they only make themselves look stupid when they try to use science to back up their faith and do more damage than good.