How does science challenge Christian belief?

Answer 1

Some Christians claim that evolution and Christianity are compatible.

They claim this by saying that the world was not necessarily made in 7 24 hour days, and God could have used evolution to create us... that we evolved and, eventually, we were conscious. That the creation story is symbolic and allegorical.

Then the problem comes in... it's symbolic, but there is a geneaology in the Bible, from Adam all the way to Jesus. At what point does that geneaology stop being symbolic and start being literal? Because according to that geneaology, humans didn't come into being until after the domestication of the dog.

So, yeah, it takes some major picking and choosing to rectify the two.

For literalist Christians, those that take creation literally, there are all kinds of conflicts with science, evolution being just one of them.

Answer 2

The Bible was based on the inaccurate knowledge of ancient people who really didn't understand the world that they lived in. Science can continue to make new discoveries, correct past errors and move on. Religion can't admit to making mistakes. Science can now prove that there are over 1 million different species of insects. How did Noah get to the Amazon Rain Forest to gather some of them? And where did he keep them? Religion can't say "We made a mistake" because for thousands of years have been saying that the story of Noah & the Arc in the Bible is the Word of God. They are forbidden to say "God made a mistake". So religions just ignore it and hope that the followers don't notice., but they are. The recent discovery of the 3.3 million year old human like skull in Ethiopia. The religions hope that the followers don't put 2 and 2 together but they are. When ever science makes new discoveries that challenge religious belief the best that the religions can do is ignore it. That doesn't work anymore.

Answer 3

You are asking the wrong question. What you should ask is "How does Christianity challenge science?" The Catholic church used to teach things like "the earth is flat" and "the earth is the center of the universe and the sun revolves around it" Religions not excluding Islam have a ridiculous record when it comes to science. As a current example i will say that Turkey a Islamic state is teaching that evolution is the root of all evil. The blind following of the masses are eating up whatever there ruling mullah is dishing out.

Answer 4

Christian belief contains dogmas.We are supposed to accept them blindly. Interestingly enough, dogmas were created by man.
One dogma is the infallibility of the Pope. ( A dogma instituted by the Pope).We all know the Popes have made gross mistakes, like forcing Galileo to recant his discoveries, burning heretics alive,etc
Science actually does not challenge Christian beliefs. The opposite is true.
Things like Virgin birth, resurection, the physical presence of the body of Christ in the wafer are Christian dogmas challenging scientific principles.
We know that science works. We live it everyday. We literally depend on it every day.
Some people simply ignore the power and reality of science and
adopt unreal and delusional thoughts that contradict what is proven by science. Then, they feel that science is challenging their beliefs.
A good example would be this: You believe that God cures all diseases and, therefore, medicine challenges your beliefs.

Answer 5

D. Russell Humphreys, Award-winning physicist:The churchgoing physicist addressed a conference at Harvard University:
"Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me…For others, however, it appears strange, even astonishing, that someone could be serious about science and about faith."
"Einstein's god, who is really just the laws of nature, is not for me," he said. "I'm strongly of the conviction that God is personal, and this is the foundation of my faith."

Albert Einstein-said (not a Christian, but a believer in an intelligent designer), when commenting about the universe: "God doesn't play dice", and he also said "the harmony of natural law...reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly-insignificant reflection." ...
Albert Einstein believed there was no inseparable contradictions between God and science, as reported in an essay he wrote Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? Christian Unitarian Register 127, (June, 1948) pages 19, 20.

http://www.deepscience.com/philosophy/fa...

Answer 6

"From the beginning of the Creation God made them male and female..."-- Jesus (Mk. 10:6)

" By the Word of the Lord were the heavens created, and all the host by the breath of His mouth. For HE SPAKE AND IT WAS DONE; HE COMMANDED AND IT STOOD FAST". (psalm 33:9)

Doesn't sound like evolution to me.

Answer 7

At every corner. It's too bad Chistians rebuke the science without a second thought.

Answer 8

Science is designed so that there is no need for God. It is inaccurate, of course. Too many coincidences that supposedly happened because of scientific things.

Answer 9

Science EXPLAINS why and how the world is like it is. Religion requires that followers be kept in the dark about how things work and why the world is like it is. Their very existence is threatened by science and truth.

Answer 10

It doesn't challenge it at all. No scientist, no atheist, nobody will ever be able to disprove God. Science is fallible. God is not.