Science and religion, is there any conflict?

Answer 1

There is a conflict which religion cannot win. Every area in the full spectrum of knowledge that has not been explained by science seems to, by default, belong to religion. If science cannot figure something out religion jumos in and says: "It's ok, that proves that God exists and he is responsible for it." But time marches on and scientific knowledge expands and one by one these gaps are explained, leaving less and less territory for religion.

This is the reason why the whole evolution/creationism thing is getting more and more coverage. Religion is trying to keep people ignorant and thereby retain their foothold while science exposes what is really happening.

Answer 2

First of all, I don't reject science. I reject evolution. Evolution is not science. True science is a process that proceeds according to the scientific method that was originally put forth by Francis Bacon back in the 1700's. The scientific method proceeds along these lines: 1)Observation 2)Identify patterns and irregularities 3)propose hypothesis which advance to theory as more evidence accumulates 4)test and predict 5) theory becomes law.
Using that same method, Louis Pasteur proved the Law of bio-genesis around the year 1800. That is a scientific law. It says that life always comes from already existing life and that LIKE always produces LIKE(rabbits always produce rabbits, antelopes always produce antelopes, humans always produce humans......). Speaking of observation(the 1st criterion of the scientific method), this is what we always observe.....life coming from already existing life and like producing like.. That is why the law of bio-genesis is a scientific law. It's been around for over 200 years and it's never been disproven. It's not non-falsifiable. It could be disproven. All you would have to do is find one example, either today or down through history that contradicted this law. That's never happened. Evolution, on the contrary, is a wacko theory. In reality, it's not even that. Something doesn't get to the theory level in science until there is much reason to believe it's true. Evolution is more like a hypothesis with absolutely no evidence. Again, speaking of observation(the 1st criterion in the scientific method), no one has ever observed an ape evolving into a man or a reptile evolving into a bird or any "kind" evolving into another "kind". You have a proven scientific law going against hypothesis with no evidence and they diametrically contradict each other. The 3rd law of logic(the law of noncontradiction) says they can't both be true. I think I'll go with the law.

Answer 3

Well, Science is in fact complimenting whatever has been inscripted in the relegion however the very people who discover this seem to deny the facts that they are uncovering. For e.g. the proof of Big Bang theory confirms that the whole universe was created from a point of nothingness in an instant proves the existence of a creator who did it. Because science says that "Energy can niether be created or destroyed and total amount of energy in the universe always remains constant"
Now who created this energy in the first place? and where did it come from? And where was all this energy before the big bang?
There are many such amazing questions. The distance of earth from the sun, the tilt of its axis, the distance of moon from earth, the size of earth. These are all precise to the millimeter to favour existence of life on earth yet the science community that proves all this denies the craftsmanship of the creator.
It is not relegion that promotes ignorance but rather wrong interpretations, innovations and superstitions that have corrupted all relegions that tend to create a negative impression about relegion.
First science proposed evolution and now science itself denies evolution and the theory of evolution itself has failed to answer many questions. And the biggest mystery is life itself and the instincts of survival that have been instilled in the tiniest of creatures.
When man can make so many sophisticated computer systems and programs then why can't we be more generous in believing the fact that we are all in fact biological computers that have been preprogrammed with some common and some individual traits by a creator who has introduced us on this planet at the precise time suitable for our existence in its history of 4 billion years?

Answer 4

Science and my religion go hand in hand. Science is just explaining what God created after all. Science cannot disprove the existence of God in any way shape or form. They cannot tell you what was there before the Big Bang only from this point onwards. To me God is a scientist he created the heavens and earth and everything in it, he is the best scientist of them all. I'm a Muslim and there is no conflict between religion and science for me. The quran is full of scientific facts, even the Big Bang.

Answer 5

So God is dark matter?!?!? Oh boy.

I think the only conflict is when people try to mix them together. Actually there are questions for science and there are questions for theology. "The bible tells us how to get to heaven, not how the heavens work."

Edit -

Do you guys remember that movie "the god's must be a crazy" about this bushman who saw a bottle of coke fall from the sky, and started believing its a gift from the gods? What an imbecile he was! Its a freakin coke bottle that someone threw out of the plane!

We, however are more sophisticated. We don't worship coke bottles, we worship dark matter. Why? Because nobody knows what it is who would make fun of us for worshipping it!

These humans are so stupid.

Answer 6

Religion gives mature and complete knowledge, while with science we learn and progress. Science is the name of proving with knowledge we gained so far. Every day new discovery and some time new theory over old theory.
Religion incourages to get knowledge.

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Answer 7

It depends on the religion. There is with historical religions such as Christianity, Judiasm and Islam. Circular religions such as Buddism and Hinduism will say that if science discovers something to be fact then the religion changes to suit it. Confusionism and Taoism teach a way to act more then scientific princeables. they are more about proper manners.

Answer 8

No.

If you believe in religion then you can easily believe that god created the natural world and science is our attempt to understand his work.

If you believe in science then you can easily believe that religion is not within your realm of investigation and you can just let those people live as they please.

Only some people choose to give themselves gas by fighting with the two - very sad.

Answer 9

Not at all, if one believes in a God that created the universe then that God created the laws of science we will continually unravel.

Answer 10

it only seems that way to those who are protecting something. Frankly protecting something makes no sense from either side. If a person is in the pursuit of truth he takes it where he finds it knowing it will be in unexpected places. Consistancy is the hobgoblin of a small mind.