2006-12-25 19:53:18 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It depends. There are some Christians who hear the word "evolution" that cover their ears and shout as loud as they can to block it out. Theyre are others who practically do the same thing but by argueing. All these people say is my belief is right and yours is wrong. The first person is the kind of person who breaks up in hives and get completley sick. The second person is the person whos sick on the inside but doesn't show it on the outside. Now theyres a third type which is rare. This rare type are called open minded Christians such as myself. They argue fairly with theyre beliefs and back their beliefs up with Science. they also never interupt during a arguement and always hear what the other person has to say no matter how much they don't want to hear it. These Christians are immune.
2006-12-25 19:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by Ugly Duckling 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually no there are alot of Scientists that are also Christians! Scary thought huh? Why don't you try to do some research from and objective point of view and see what you find. I am Christian and I have no problem reading a science book. I also try to remember that not to long ago everything that science said was fact, had to be rewritten. Science is a wonderful tool but it has not come close to all the answers, so stop taking it as the final word on everything. It has left us with more unexplained than it can explain as far as the Universe, space, etc..etc..
2006-12-25 19:59:41 · answer #2 · answered by mark g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jim: Actually; yes ! We were doing an experiment for a scientific research project with a bee hive ! My partner dropped the bee hive and we had hives all over the place !!
2006-12-25 19:59:28 · answer #3 · answered by guraqt2me 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm a Christian and luxuriate in analyzing philosophy and theology greater often than not, I evaluate those works of technological awareness or no longer less than non-fiction, some could argue this factor. I even have examine Darwin's beginning place of species to greater effectual consult from those that a manner or the different evaluate it to be an effectual condemnation of the Bible (yet stumbled on it extremely uninteresting stuff) I infrequently examine fiction as i'm the fashion of individual who consistently thinks "what nonsense, what entire nonsense...." whilst analyzing it.
2016-10-06 00:45:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You agnostics think you're so smart, and in your smugness you think that Christians are ninnies for believing.
I've read every one of Richard Dawkins books, and I'm as good a Catholic girl as ever. In fact, he's one of my favorite authors, notwithstanding his loudly professed faith: "There is no god at all and Dawkins is his prophet!"
The trouble with you, Asker, and with Dawkins is that you've fallen victim to the fallacy of the "straw man." You've set up your own straw-man version of what faith means (generally, as an explanation for things like thunder, or how to explain those crystal spheres and the heavenly chariots that pull the planets in their courses), you leaven it with well-taken but irrelevant examples of human error and sinfulness by church leaders (Jim and Tammy stole, therefore there is no God) and conclude that this straw-man faith is a figment of the imagination. And you'd be absolutely right.
Except that you've missed the whole point.
Believers like me have come to my faith from a variety of directions, all after rigorously applying reason and critical examination of the propositions. Huge numbers of people in every generation, most of them more intelligent than me, have done the same thing and decided that God and the faith are true. (Real faith, that is, not your straw-man version that you, or I for that matter, could easily knock down.)
In every generation and in every corner of the world, most everyone finds in himself the yearning to seek God, even in places like Communist principalities where governments try to stop them. Look at the accounts of people in the time of Jesus where those who knew Jesus dropped everything and even risked persecution to follow him. No one would do such a thing unless completely convinced, as evidently they were. And, so that you'll see that they too were applying critical examination in as rigorous a way as I do, the Bible stories themselves describe how some people came to differing conclusions about Him.
If it were true that religion is nothing more than "God in the Gaps," I would be the first to agree with you. But it isn't. In your smugness to jump to the conclusion that you're smarter than me, you've ceased any open-minded investigation of the question. As you and the churchmen who condemned Galileo all know, when you've already made your conclusion before you look at the data, it makes it so much easier to tell everyone else that you're right and they're wrong.
2006-12-25 20:26:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anne Marie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. But there seems to be varying degrees of christians, some follow their leaders blindly while others try to think.
2006-12-25 19:55:08 · answer #6 · answered by Timothy C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
... Do you break out in hives if you touch any spiritual volume belonging to any religion?
The answer is "No".
2006-12-25 19:55:27 · answer #7 · answered by optimistic_pessimist1985 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wana said Happy Holidays
2006-12-25 19:54:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No they become Atheist like I did.
2006-12-25 20:02:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
only the willfully ignorant ones.
2006-12-25 19:54:43 · answer #10 · answered by judy r 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋