Before I started to visit this section I would have thought this was the silliest question anyone could ask. It would have been the same as asking me, “What is your opinion on hammers?” I always viewed science as a toolbox. I wouldn’t want to build a desk without a screw driver (a drill would be better) and I wouldn’t want to guess the speed of a passing car without knowing a little about the Doppler Effect. I guess this is my opinion what is yours?
2006-12-06 21:38:36 · 18 answers · asked by Just Wondering 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Abram You had me going
2006-12-06 21:50:18 · update #1
Jan maybe we don’t need it, but I’m sure happy that science has allowed us to figure out how to get safe drinking water, and how to build this computer we are having this delightful conversation on.
2006-12-06 21:57:09 · update #2
I agree that this knowledge and tools we have can be used for constructive or deconstructive purposes. Nuclear weapons vs. vaccines is one example.
2006-12-06 22:01:21 · update #3
Tim I think you misunderstand the scientific definition of a theory. What you call “micro evolution” is a theory as well. You are right about the reasons why I posted it in this section. There does seem to be a large gap between what I learned in school and read in books and what many people in this section believes science is about. I am hoping that by getting peoples opinions on this topic I can understand where the conflict arises.
2006-12-06 22:09:16 · update #4
Joshua – millions of years
2006-12-06 22:11:24 · update #5
In my opinion, God gave us these wonderful minds of ours. Physical and mathematical laws do not oppose god. Science is a tool used to explain his grand creation and capitalize on what we know and think to better mankind.
Sure many people try to use science to disprove god, but those same people will use the bible itself to disprove god.
Science is a good thing, god intended us to use the brains he put in our head, anyone that says science is the work of the devil is denying the fact that they even think. We just have to use our discretion as to which scientific practices are ethical and which ones aren't.
2006-12-06 22:37:45 · answer #1 · answered by alex l 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As you are in the R&S section, I guess that you mean how science relates to religion.
As a Christian I think that they work well together.
There was a character I saw in a movie (Time Changer ?) who was a science teacher at a Christian school in the late 1800's who said something like "If you results contradict the Bible, than you need to recheck your test" to his students (I wish I knew if this was a real turn that was used back then).
Many people today are getting confused because of evolution.
It is a theory (except for micro evoultion, that IS a science).
There are many things that evolution can not explain and the Bible can (human and dinosaur footprints in the same rock, how a woolly mamouth can freeze fast enough to keep the tropical food in its stomic from digesting - to name two).
Science is what can be reproduced in the lab.
Everything else is theory.
2006-12-07 05:57:16 · answer #2 · answered by tim 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe any of it, it is the work of Satan. I only trust God's Word as found in the Holy Bible. It says that God created Adam in His image, not from a monkey. And the Big Bang could not have happened because you can't get something from nothing. And how do you explain how life started, it could not have been by accident like Darwinists say, that is a lie. And ffffffffff hee hee hee hee hee!
Sorry, I couldn't even type that with a straight face. But you probably thought I was a genuine Creationist right up until I lost it, didn't you?
Incidentally, did you know that the word 'science' has the same root as the word 'sh1t'? It's a Sanskrit word meaning to seperate, as science seperates fact from myth, and excrement is seperated from the body. Also the root of scissors and schism.
2006-12-07 05:41:27 · answer #3 · answered by abram.kelly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science in itself is neutral. It depends on what you DO with that science.
When science mixes with religion, that's when it becomes a problem. Like when you try to explain away G-d in terms of science.
Science is, as you said, a tool. Just like knowledge is a tool. It can be used for bad or for good. It can also be wrong - science should not be looked upon as divine or infallible, because science is based on human thought - and humans make mistakes. G-d does not make mistakes.
2006-12-07 05:51:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe science at its root is to improve the life of all mankind but people go to far like trying to say we evolved from monkeys, who honestly ever seen a monkey turn into a man? This process takes thousands of years according to scientists so how could they possibly say it would happen if no one ever lives to see it? Science has led to many good things but somethings we just simply dont know and when we try to expain them anyway we get things like theories and hypothosis' which even though they are guesses people accept them as truths. If I told you that the holes in the moon was caused by a giant when he farted would you believe me? Yet could you personaly prove me wrong? Thats science for ya.
2006-12-07 06:05:59 · answer #5 · answered by Joshua 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Religion has set back science hundreds of years. Yeah we could just use those stem cells anyways you know just to cure cancer instead of throwing them away or whatever they do with them. Now all our scientist are going to China to do research setting the US back even more (china will one day own us) Thanks G B and his Holy plan I bet if he were terminal he would be all for it. Maybe the aids guy should get him, then we would see who's side he is really on.
2006-12-07 05:52:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well science, as in all other things, is a 'necessary evil'. Well, that was unfair, science IS. That is what I think. I cannot think of another way to answer that, science IS, just like God IS. Those are things that ARE. Without God, however, there would be no science, so, hope that helps somewhat.
2006-12-07 05:44:18 · answer #7 · answered by walterhawthorneiii 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Science and logic help to rid the world of a problem called ignorance.
2006-12-07 05:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by Architect 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science defuncts religion
2006-12-07 05:46:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
like most things in the world, science is something that can be used to bring great good but humans are abusing it to bring great bad. i almost wish we still lived in the stone age because at least at that time i would have had faith that my kids aren't going to be destroyed by a nuclear bomb or that they might not have a planet to live on due to our destruction of the ozone layer.
2006-12-07 05:48:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋