It's because of Science, I don't believe in GOD anymore?

Question

I respect other peoples beliefs, but, what little knowledge I have concerning Science, to me, doesn't go with anything in the BIBLE. Get this, my son is a Pastor, he is not happy with me. I'm 54, and I got like this in High School.

Answer 1

I feel the exact same way. All the scientific research I have been taught in High School and College makes much more sense to me than what is written in the Bible.

My theory on the Bible is this:

Humans have a biological thirst for knowledge, especially the question "Where did we all come from and how did we all evolve." Because of this, people had to make up stories to quench the thirst, creating the Bible.

I do regret feeling this way. I miss it when life were simple and your answers were in God. I just don't know how to regain my faith with such a strong scientific background. The question plagues me everyday.

Answer 2

Every time I see the mention of the 'big bang' theory, I cant stop laughing. Here is bits of pieces of a book I read about the big bang... "first there was just space and gas and stuff. What kind of stuff, we're just not sure. Where the suff came from? Well, we're just not sure about that either. We'll avoid those questions for now...', ' Then suddenly, KABOOM!...there were planets, stars, meteors, black holes, and galaxies.', ' Dues to the presence of important life-sustaining elements, life decided to spontaneously start!. Thats like saying that your deodorant decided to spontaneously apply itself', ' Evolving was the "in" theing to do. If you weren't blinking, breathing, swimming or slurping before too long, you were nobody!.', 'After a few seconds, this brilliant little blob figured out that if he didn't learn to breath air pretty quick, he'd die. (Too bad our peon 21st century fish have lost that evolutionary ability)." The book even mentions some reasons why the big bang has nothing scientific about it. not one shred of valid evidence exists that evolution ever happened. No evidence exists that evolution continues.A universe is no more likely to spontaneously form than a car. Hitory, true science, and archeology all support the Biblical account of creation.Oh and by the way, science in fact has not proven the Bible wrong. Lee Stronbel, a journalist, interviews many people with different types of jobs and none of the interviews shows in anyway that the Bible is wrong, by "science" that is. You may think well I dont know anything about this science so I wouldnt know, actually I am taking astronomy classes and have read numerious things about the big bang and science. Like Cary Schmidt says in the book, Evolution is just a blind faith.

Answer 3

Science offers many precise explanations to natural phenomena and the predictions of many theories have been verified to extreme accuracy. Science can describe and explain and predict many things. But one thing that science cannot do and will never be able to do is to answer the most fundamental question "why?". You might explain things to a very fundamental level, but there is always a level that you get to where there basically is no answer. At that point you are in the realm of philosophy or religion.

And by the way - most of the people answering this question do not understand what the term "theory" means to a scientist. A theory is not just a guess , and "theory" DOES NOT MEAN that it has not been proven. You are confusing "theory" with the term "hypothesis", which is a postulate (or guess) that is yet to be proven or disproven.

So saying that evolution, the big bang, relativity, or gravitation, are only theories, and therefore not be be believed, is pure and samply a misunderstanding of the term.

Answer 4

Science and ones faith have always clashed, yet science can neither prove nor disprove "Gods existence." As to the bible, one must remember that it was written by man as were all the other books of faith. Science is a quest for knowledge of the unknown. Faith is believing we are more than just our meager existence. Both are a search for answers yet unknown so in a sense, one could say science and faith work towards the same goal. The answers we get, might clash with the bible, but again one must take into consideration that the bible was written by men a very very long time ago when the world was a far different place than it is now, and one must also take into account our technological advancements versus what was available in the date of the bible.

Answer 5

Well I am a few years older and I question your standing in regards to not believing in God or a higher power. I am not religious at all. I believe there are some good religions but they are as flawed as mankind is, so I cannot be a hypocrite and support them. I also have a problem with religions based upon the stupidity of man to fight over beliefs, no different than saying one political party is better than another, when in fact they both stink.
Now as far as God is concerned that is mighty arrogant to think that we are the only enlightened beings within a universe that science cannot measure, as a matter of fact they cannot even measure a black hole. Science is only as good as the knowledge we have received at this point. It is not the end all anymore than a belief system, but I have always thought there is more to life than a chance of balance of this great universe. There is more beyond us and If I was to believe I simply fill a rather mundane repetitive existence by growing up working and dying than that is a pretty sorry state of life with no reason for anyone to strive to stay alive or be a decent human being.
There is no way I can prove the existence of God, but then there is no way anyone here can prove otherwise. I prefer to have faith, for faith is something needed when bright days are dark, and I recall back in Viet Nam, not one soldier ever yelled my dear scientist please save me, I believe it was God being prayed to, and we do not have the knowledge beyond this universe to know if those prayers were answered.

Answer 6

Religion has always been full of loop holes and always will be. It has been well-constructed and perfected over time as well as interpreted by so many people, it's hard to get any feeling of it down. Science is so closely related to mathematics, really is entirely reliant on math, and numbers have proven to play an extremely important role in nearly everything we can imagine in life. From something as simple and juvenile as counting money and financing, to understanding DNA strings; every single thing can be broke down into a decipherable code, on a long enough time line and dedication. Now the question comes... Did we learn the language of understanding life as we know it, or was the code shown to us by a higher being? All I know is that science proves, answering questions only opens more doors, and religion is for people that prefer "that's just the way it is" or "how God wanted it" as an answer to the yet to be determined...

Answer 7

I don't think that science and the existence of a Supreme Being (God, Ala, etc.) are inconsistent. I think one belief supports the other.

I wonder, though, if you are confusing the belief in a God and that of organized religion. On this issue, I think there is an exceptionally large area for debate (God vs. religion).

I do not personally believe in many things that religion and the Bible espouse. There is so much difference in motivation semantics that it could (and has, so far) forever to agree on a common basis of understanding to convey each discipline's meaning.

I realize that when one looks at the situation on earth, that it may be difficult to wonder if God has gone on holidays (or moved), but then again, maybe that is why we haven't established contact with extraterrestrial intelligence - extraterrestrial intelligence is still trying to find intelligent life here!

Answer 8

I'm 21 years old and I stopped believing in the ridiculous claims of religion back in high school when for the first time I took a Physics class. I didn't let anybody influence me, I came to the decision myself after seeing how scientific claims and discoveries backed by evidence and proof contradicted religion which has no evidence backing it up whatsoever.
I'm now a 3rd year college student majoring in Physics.
I also respect people's beliefs, and I have nothing against religious people so long as they don't try to impose their beliefs on me.

To anybody who uses the stupid argument that science can't disprove god: Can you? Can you disprove that leperchauns exist? No. Can you disprove the Flying Spaghetti Monster? No.
So that is one of the most ridiculous arguments against science.

To the person that said Einstein believed in a higher power:
"I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." -Albert Einstein
So please, if you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk at all.

Answer 9

Atheism is not something that is stumbled on in the dark or in a blinding flash. To achieve rationality is a developmental process that has to overcome the mindless programming that has been shoved at you since childhood. I'm amazed that I started asking the right questions when I was eleven and even more amazed that I was able to take the "because" answers of religion with a jaundiced eye at such a young age. Still it took three more years before I called myself an agnostic and three hard years more before being to call myself an Atheist. Happy about it? Sometimes I envy delusionalists who think they are going to end up in some cosmic Disneyland when they die, instead of the void on non-existence, but in the end, I'm happy I do not live in the delusional haze that seems to keep them anesthetized to reality. If I had a child involved in the spreading of the religion fraud, I would be the unhappy one.

Answer 10

The way some of us view life could knock God out of us, but I don't see a contradiction between the bible and science. Beliefs change over time. At one time the best minds in the world said the earth was flat, the sun revolved around the earth and that man could not fly. The bible has remained consistant, only people have changed. Read Mathew, Mark Luke and John (the gospels) in a contextual way and that faith is real. You lose nothing, but gain greatly.