Is Christianity as Incompatible with Science?What about Islam? What about your religion?No religion?

Question

(does incompatibility make your religion backwards?)

Answer 1

Science led me to Islam, I have studied the scientific miracles of the Quran, and they where the reason I accepted Islam as a faith

Answer 2

Only Fundamentalist Christians interpret the Bible as a science book. In doing so, they miss the point.

I have heard the argument that, while both the Bible and the Koran say God created the world in six days, the bible tells the story in a more or less chronological format, which contains some eyebrow-raisers, such as God creating light on the first day, and then the sun and moon on the fourth day. Muslims say that the Koran doesn't contain this "error" because it doesn't put it in that order -- the Koran is a collection of sayings, not in any chronological order, so the creation story is scattered verse by verse throughout the various Surahs.

The real problem here isn't whether the inconsistencies of the Bible are more obvious because of its easily understood narrative format. The real issue is that the Bible wasn't intended to be a science book in the first place.

Christianity is a precious gem buried in a big box full of packaging -- old newspapers, bubble wrap, peanut-shaped styrofoam blobs, etc. Pointing to scientific inconsistencies in the Bible and using that as a reason to reject Christianity is like tossing the entire box into the trash -- gem included -- because you noticed that the wadded up newspapers were out of date.

Muslimah, that gem is yours to claim, but you are still looking for faults in the packaging.

Answer 3

I don't see Christianity and science being incompatible. As a matter of fact, the Bible said things many years before science ever discovered it. For example that life is in the blood. I think doctors found this out in the 18th century. Also, the latest cosmological theories lean towards a hot big bang and that the universe is expanding. This means that at a certain time, the universe began. The Bible says in the beginning... this shows a time, and in Psalms, it says that God stretches out the Heavens... this shows expansion. I don't consider the Bible a science book, but what it says is accurate.

Answer 4

My religion is Wicca and I have yet to see anything in my faith that makes it incompatible with Science. Of course there are those that say magick and science don't go hand in hand but I believe that this is because science hasn't proved or disproved everything that exists in the natural world.

Blessed Be )O(

Answer 5

Christianity is fully compatible with religion.
Cause also scientists admit there is Somebody who made the big-bang and universe-Earth-Sun, ecc.ecc. with many many "scientific rules" and complessity that it's not possible that the world came by itself.
And, i don't remember exactly where, but in the Bible, is written something like this follow sentence:
"...we give you science to prove the creation and goodest of God and don't have any doubt for this..."

More clearly than these things!!

What about Islam and Christianity?
I think that both are compatible, in different ways of praying God and something else, but compatible.

Bye bye!

Answer 6

Science and spirituality are coming together. Its called quantum physics, where science is telling us that there is an intangible world, which is more fundumental than the physical world. I believe the 2 will come together one day, way, way into the future. But it will only go so far, science will never be able to put God into a mathematical formula.

Answer 7

Science has told me that there are infinite numbers of parallel universes. To me that may just as well be religion since i will never know for sure if its a fact. Heck, i can't even prove that the planet is round.

Answer 8

Every religion has it's stupidity, the proof, it's all about acceptance, but you all think you're better the one another. All religions have their ups and downs, they're truths even if most of the time they are based on myths because they are written by the hands of humans, which at that time most of them didn't have erasers in the back of they're pens. Everything contradicts itself, it's the nature of our universe, there's hot and cold, there's good and evil, black and white...

Answer 9

Another interesting question, Muslimah. Most people who are Christian would say no, you have to ignore scientific facts and "believe the bible". But that's a bunch of nonsense. The bible coincides beautifully with science.

Answer 10

I have no problems reconciling my religious beliefs with scientific truths about the nature of things. If they happen to conflict with each other - BIG DEAL. God created Astronlmy, and physics, and evolution, and extra-terrestrial intelligence, and any other 'heretical' scientific evidence of his own non-existence that you can think of. Quit trying to sway people into atheism. Sometimes you talk out both sides of your mouth, Muslimah.