ignorant to learning?
2006-12-21 09:23:02 · 8 answers · asked by Fred L 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Aha! That means "God" would have no antithesis? God would have created evil, which would be an oxymoron correct?
I'm not trying to disprove that there is God or a god (because if i am I'm definetly going to "hell" or reborn into rosie o'donnell or richard simmons-- lol) , but my main point is that people are ignorant when the answer to everything is "God" -- God created the scrambles eggs.
I had a school bus driver once explain to me that god created this school bus., God created schools etc.
2006-12-21 11:01:59 · update #1
Okay, so, if nothing existed before the big bang, how could an onmipotent being exist?
2006-12-21 11:05:15 · update #2
'God' is a legitimate answer.
It is just not a *scientific* answer.
It's not scientific because, by definition of 'God', such a hypothesis can never be proved or disproved. Since God is all-powerful, He can do *anything* and does not have to adhere to physical laws, and doesn't even need to have an understandable motive. There can be no evidence that disproves the hypothesis that 'God' did something. *Everything* can be seen to be evidence of God (from the sun coming up every morning, to a bird hatching eggs, to an apple falling to the ground), and *nothing* can be seen to be counter evidence of God. Because such a concept can be modified to explain *everything*, it effectively (from the scientific point of view) explains nothing.
People who believe in God do not have to be "ignorant to learning". Many of our greatest scientists have been deeply religious.
Where fundamentalism gets in the way of learning is when people close their eyes to the world rather than see any contradiction to a very *narrow* view of the Bible ... so narrow and literal-minded, that it resembles the literalism of a child.
For example, the Big Bang theory was originally rejected by some scientists (like Hoyle) for resembling creationism *too much*. The idea of a universe with a finite age sounds a whole lot like "Let there be Light". But that is where the evidence points. But fundamentalists have gone one step further and rather than rejoice in the idea that Genesis speaks about a time of origin which is consistent with what science is discovering ... they focus on some obscure passages of geneology from Adam to Moses as "proof" that the entire universe is only 6,000 years old! This puts them in such an absurd opposition to science, that they have to battle againsts astronomers, astrophysicists, physicists, chemists, biologists, geologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, climatologists, etc. etc. ... basically the entire scientific community. That requires an *extreme* effort in anti-learning.
2006-12-21 10:44:30 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an educated woman of faith, I believe that God created the intricacies of the universe, which includes math and science. Both of which, by the way, I have studied and taught at the college level. By no means am I ignorant to learning or without knowledge.
2006-12-21 09:32:07 · answer #2 · answered by cottey girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the answer of god means we don't know, but it really could be the only answer. Take the Big Bang for example. It is an explosion of gases. but why did these gases explode? They couldn't have done it by themselves, something must have triggered it. Energy had to. But all energy is created by something. Energy can not pop out of nowhere. This would be the answer of god.
2006-12-21 09:29:06 · answer #3 · answered by bohdan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's totally stupid. If there were nothing before the big bang, what exploded? Ever heard of an oxymoron? The big bang is one.
The reason it seems so difficult to understand is because you are a mere mortal, and do not understand God, but like most people, you want to kill what you don't understand- even God.
You must simply accepy God, until he sees fit to reveal himself to you.
God is not bound by time. His domain is eternity- what scientists call infinity. He did not "was", and will not "will be". He simply is, not then, but in the everpresent now.
2006-12-22 14:15:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Science does not attempt to answer questions that cannot be proved or disproved, that is the realm of Religion, Mythology and Philosophy. Anyone attempting to do otherwise is ignorant to learning.
2006-12-21 11:57:49 · answer #5 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, in most cases they don't know.
Throughout history man has used the idea of some sort of god as an excuse to explain the things he does not understand.
Zeus dragging the sun across the sky with his chariot... bla bla...
2006-12-21 09:27:00 · answer #6 · answered by TG 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much. Or they got bored hanging out in the religion section, but don't know anything else.
2006-12-21 10:12:16 · answer #7 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only God knows what's in the mind of fanatics lol
2006-12-21 09:27:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fred, you have answered your own question! What could I add to it to convince you that you are correct?
2006-12-21 15:59:42 · answer #9 · answered by Nikolas S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋