Science, in constantly seeking real explanations, reveals the true majesty of our world in all its complexity
~Richard Dawkins
That's why I choose science over religion
2006-12-15 08:05:30 · 20 answers · asked by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it supports this quote
"When people loose their sense of awe they turn to religion"
~Lao Tzu
Science embraces the awe in the unverse by not oversimplifying it. Science is beautiful.
2006-12-15 08:10:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't. To hear REALLY inspiring words, listen to the audio file in the source. It is quite long, so you need patience. It is an interview with Father George Coyne, director of the Vatican observatory and includes a great section on how religion and science can support each other, in addition to interesting conversation about calendars, adaptive optics and other astronomical topics.
2006-12-15 08:11:34 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's funny because it's why I respect both science and religion. Just because I believe in God doesn't mean I don't respect the complexity of the world around me, and the people that study that complexity... they can intellectually co-exist.
2006-12-15 08:18:29 · answer #3 · answered by Dawn 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A good quote. I, too, seek the truth--the real truth, not a fantasy that comforts me and acts as a cushion against a sometimes rough and abrasive reality. I'm a human being. I can handle the truth.
2006-12-15 08:14:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find it charming in its naive enthusiam, like reading something from the Logical Postivists of the 1940s. God bless Dawkins. I hope he never takes a undergraduate level philosophy of science course and has that bubble around him popped.
2006-12-15 08:17:33 · answer #5 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you appreciate science as the only thing worth "worshiping", then to find it majesic or beautiful means you missed the point, doesn't it?
Science doesn't reveal the inherantly beautiful or meaningful or majestic; it just IS. If you ascribe a sperate meaning to it outside of ascribing to knowledge for its own sake, that's just a fallacy of your own mind giving it a quality which it doesn't contain.
Science isn't in and of itself good or bad, pretty or ugly, meaningful or meaningless... it's how you percieve results that give it meaning.
You have demeaned people who believe in God because some find science ugly. But at least they don't contradict themselves; they ascribe meaning because they believe there is a higher power who allows them to.
What's your excuse?
2006-12-15 08:35:57 · answer #6 · answered by spacejohn77 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will -- and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. - Gene Roddenberry
ok 2nd time i posted this one
2006-12-15 08:12:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have a few, but I don't know where any of them came from! I just found them on the internet and saved them. Lol. "When push comes to shove you taste what you’re made of. You might bend ‘till you break ‘cause it’s all you can take. On your knees you looked up and decide you’ve had enough. You get mad, you get strong, wipe your hands, shake it off, then you stand." "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." "Winners see what they can become rather than what they are." "Our greatest glory is not never falling, but in rising every time we fall." "It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." "Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is."
2016-05-22 21:43:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose that one could take that particular quote and apply it towards any particular belief. As for me, the majesty of God becomes more evident when the minute details of nature are studied and explored.
2006-12-15 08:17:20 · answer #9 · answered by Turnhog 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Personally, I choose both. They do not conflict in their purest forms. Whenever there is a conflict, it is because someone has used one of them wrong. When there is a conflict, I chose religion, because I believe that God is less likely to make a calculation mistake than I am.
2006-12-15 08:35:39 · answer #10 · answered by steven.henderson 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋