Does science do believers a disservice in deflating their conceits?

Question

If they long to believe that the stars rise and set for them, by God's will, that mankind is the reason there is a Universe?

Answer 1

What?

Answer 2

you have been reading to much of Carl Sagan. It is worth mentioning what the Bible does tell us about creation. The primary teaching is that everything, including us, owes its existence to God. The Bible also teaches us that the creation reflects God's own nature. One thing I take from that is that God made an "honest" universe that will not give us false answers if we ask it the proper questions. This means that, while science (like all human endeavors) is not infallible, it does not have to worry about getting false results because God is playing tricks on us. For example, while we can question the interpretation of fossil evidence, it is not a Biblical option to say that God is deceiving us by putting the fossils there to testify to a history that never happened. Christians through the years have affirmed that God has given us "two books": the Bible and his creation in nature. Since God is the ultimate Author of both, we need not fear that either revelation, properly interpreted, will lead us into falsehood. If there seems to be a conflict, it means that either our interpretation of nature (science) is wrong, or our interpretation of the Bible is wrong, or possibly both. There can be no warfare between "scientific truth" and "Biblical truth," because both come from the one truthful God. What we often find instead of conflict is that the "two books" offer complementary insights into a single God-given reality, like pictures taken from different angles. The insights of science may be of less eternal significance, but they are no less valid.

Answer 3

I believe in God. I am smart enough to know that the Universe was not made for us. The stars rise and set for us? No way. Only an idiot would believe that we are the only life in the Universe.

I can see the Universe being created by intelligent design and then evolution took over on Earth.

Answer 4

You got that right. I grew up thinking the human race was the center of the universe and the center of God's attention. I read in a science book that rudimentary hind limbs appear briefly in the embyos of whales and dolphins, and a lot of other such nonsense. All the scientific crap taken together ruined my conceits, yeah and my earnest concepts too. Thanks a lot. I could have done without that knowledge. Believing in God felt good, and high school and college ruined it.

Answer 5

I consider deflating their conceits to be a service, not a disservice.

Answer 6

Science doesn't do anything of the sort, unfortunately. They tend to be extremely arrogant because the think god sides with and demands ignorance.

Amazing how believers can be so proud of utter stupidity.

Answer 7

What believers do you know that believes these things? Believers KNOW they are not the smarted beings in the universe. It's the Atheists that think nothing can be smarter than man.

Answer 8

Scientists should be condemned. First they tell us the world is flat, then they say it is round. They say the heavens go around us, now it seems we go around a gas ball. They come up with fantastic ideas and theories, but only 2 percent of them pan out.

Should I trust them to watch my kids at night?

Answer 9

science proves the Bible over and over again. some scientific theory which contradicts other theory and other scientific proof do us all a disservice.

Answer 10

Science and religion are compatible.

Answer 11

Does anybody intelligent ever agree with you, and can you prove it?