how many times has science proven religious beliefs to be wrong versus the number of times religion has?

Question

proven science wrong?

example: religious doctorine stated that the sun revolved around the earth. science has proven that the earth revolves around the sun. can anyone give an example of religion proving science to be wrong?

Answer 1

1)MANY
2)ZERO
Religion has NEVER proven science wrong...and to all of you creationists that are about to jump in, just wait 20-30 years. Creationism is the BIGGEST joke among the scientific community.

The difference between science and religion (and the reason I love science and not religion), is that science ADMITS that it may be wrong...how many religions put forth their ideas as just a theory? NONE..but that is all they are, theories (and not even good ones)

Answer 2

Your question brings to mind a couple of issues. One is the fact that Christianity has, for some strange reason, always been afraid of scientific discovery. The burning at the stake of Bruno for saying that the earth rotated around the sun is just one example. Galileo recanted, as I would, and escaped this punishment. As another answerer pointed out, Christianity does finally come around to realize that science has not destroyed religious belief. 20 to 30 years from now, history will repeat itself and the church will accept evolution as a fact.

The other issue that comes to mind is similar in a way. Many Christians, such as those who are against evolution, tend to look at the bible as a book that says something about everything, science included. The bible, however, is not a scientific book. It does not give scientific explanations but stories that give morals and point out what god did.

No, science doesn't prove or disprove anything about religion, which is beyond the natural sciences. Nor does religion prove or disprove anything about science.

And blah blah blah.

Answer 3

Where in the Bible is it stated that the earth revolves around the sun? Religion is not science and science is not religion. You cannot use the physical to prove the spiritual. It is like using the color black to paint things white. It just cannot be done. The spiritual creates the physical and is higher then the physical. Without the spiritual the physical cannot exist. How can created things prove the invisible and eternal reality, God? No way! God makes science to study His creation not Himself. God uses faith to make Himself known to man.

Answer 4

I find it interesting that so many "believers" consider it a weakness of science, that it has revised itself over the years. This is the most backwards view of progress that I have ever witnessed. They condemn a scientist for changing his mind, based on new evidence, even if this evidence does nothing to support a religious perspective. It merely proves an earlier scientific theory wrong.

But even though their religious books have been proven wrong countless times, they fail to acknowledge that. Instead of admitting mistakes on the part of the authors, they simply claim that the new discoveries are false.

I have to say, it distresses me quite a bit. It's a subject that concerns me, and (call me crazy) it can actually ruin my day sometimes. I often find myself down in the dumps, simply because I'm dissappointed at how stubborn, and flat-out stupid, my fellow man can be. I really thought that we were better than this. But it seems that a good portion of us simply aren't.

It really makes me wish I was born a hundred years from now, when I could fit in a bit better. (Okay, so I'm an arrogant asshole... :) What can I say? I'm smart. And I admit it! )

Answer 5

Heliocentricism was already known about when Galileo tried to prove the Bible was false. The Church does not make doctrines out of science.
http://www.catholic.com/library/Galileo_Controversy.asp
Religion can easliy prove science to be wrong. We can start with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are enough aborted babies to fill the Rosebowl, I think medical science can take its share of the blame. But this quote really sums it up:

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.... We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be." (-Pope John Paul II)

Hear is another angle:

"Methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things the of the faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are" (CCC 159). The Catholic Church has no fear of science or scientific discovery.

The 400th Anniversary of the Foundation of the PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdscien/
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Answer 6

You are guilty of the strawman fallacy. You set up, or misquote a viewpoint, and then you give an example how such "misquote" is flawed.

Science is the search for knowledge of the physical world. That is why we call one specialty of science "Physics".

Religion is the search for knowledge in the spiritual world. That is why we call mental telepathy from God "The Holy Spirit".

The Bible you quote is simply a history of the Jewish blood line from Adam to Jesus. Proof: All the names are Jewish,and It reads like a family genealogy. If I said Uncle Joe usually gets out of bed when the Sun comes up. And he goes to Bed after the Sun had passed across the skies.
Would you hold my family responsible for not knowing that the Sun doesn't cross the sky and go behind us and come up again from the East. Of course not.

The Bible is a history of the Jewish bloodline. It doesn't claim to be a history of the whole world. It claims that its history goes back 6000 years. It does not claim that the History of manking is only 6000 years.

In the beginning meant in the beginning of the Jewish Genealogy, not the beginning of the Earth and certainly not the beginning of the Universe.

PS: "Heavens" in the original text meant where birds fly, not the celestial bodies or the Universe.

added: Of course, Bubba Preachers say we all are descendents of Adam. Well, believe me, he cannot trace his bloodline back to Adam (unless he is an Orthodox Jew and unless .... well, I am sure you get the point)

Answer 7

Bible never stated the Sun goes around the Earth
There is no scripture anywhere about that.

Science has not proven anything wrong about the Bible. In fact if there is any confliction it is not science facts but theories such as evolution. Science has had to rewrite it's books many times.

Answer 8

all religion or science has ever proved is how simple-minded we can really be to think that any group has any answers at all is laughable. we are and always have been a small people on a small world orbiting a small sun in a very very large universe the fact that we have any answers at all is astounding let alone the ones that matter give it a rest already

Answer 9

Apples and Oranges. Science has been wrong numerous times in the past. Science is an ongoing practice that corrects itself with new data. Early scientists used to think the Earth was the center of the Universe as well. You cant just stick that on Religion.

Answer 10

The Book of Mormon people knew that the revolution of the earth caused the days, and not movement of the sun.
By the way, science is better at disproving things than proving them. It is possible to support a hypothesis, but the only way to prove it is to disprove all other possible options.

Answer 11

>>Heliocentrism, The 4 humours. you're perfect, both "beliefs", were scientifically inaccurate, although no longer easily clinical theories. >>concept of Relativity, Quantum concept. Neither of those has ever been disproven. So let us know: you keep in mind that many beliefs of the distant previous, geocentrism, heliocentrism, 4 aspects, and so on, were pretend, yet HOW did you recognize? i will grant you with a clue, scientists instructed you. ...and also you do recognize, do not you, that no individual fought harder adverse to that new understand-how, than the church? Now enable us evaluate yet another concept. If the church were to locate, that a number of christian preparation became pretend, that say, Paul, became a Satanist, operating adverse to Jesus preparation; Do you imagine for one second that they could inform you hint: No probability. technology corrects that is blunders, faith compounds hers. faith hasn't ever been shown incorrect, for the straightforward reason that what can't be falsified, might want to correctly be neither shown or disproven. Now i do not assume you may want to care to describe your want to lie about quantum concept, and relativity. besides, isn't it meant to be the Seond regulation of Thermodynamics that you misunderstand, and lie about?