As a religious person , how do you feel about science ?

Answer 1

I do research and am on my way to becoming a doctor (hopefully) so I really respect science and the progress it has made. I hold that God is the driving force for everything, and science is slowly but surely trying to understand how that force works.

Sometimes I feel like science is going about it wrong, because the search for Truth if done correctly shouldn't breed more questions than you started out with. Nonetheless, you gotta do what you gotta do.

Answer 2

Basically I think of science as a tool to understand our world. I look at biology to teach me about how the body works. I look at chemistry to better understand the building blocks of our planet.

Religious people don't usually have a problem with science - they have a problem with things in science that contradict their religion

Usually, science actually does a good job of explaining what was already found in the Bible. For example, there's a passage about God knowing a person while they were still in the womb. Through genetics, we understand that as soon as a sperm meets an egg, the resulting embryo is a genetically unique organism. Through biological research, we also find that very quickly it forms human attributes and can be recognized as human.

When science comes up with a contrary idea, it must be tested. For example, scientists believe the Earth is billions of years old, yet biblical geneologies point to 6,000-10,000 years. In this, the process of carbon dating (used to come up with these large numbers of years) has been found lacking in many applications (such as things that are alive...through carbon dating can often be classified as 100,000 years old). We also forget that some amazing world events can rapidly "age" our earth (ever see the blast site of a volcano eruption - trees petrified in an instant look old). Also, people never think, what if God made the Earth look old? If God was to put a Sun in our solar system that was at the start of its life, it would not work the way our Sun works for us now.

I think science is a good tool to use, but must be questioned and examined. Many things once treated as scientifically factual are constantly being changed and re-examined. Whenever there is a human element, you must be skeptical about the results.

Answer 3

Eventually, religion and science with be in perfect agreement. For example: There seems to be some difficulty reconciling the Bible with what we find in the fossil record. I believe the Bible came from God. I also believe God created the earth, which implies then, that I must believe God wrote the fossil record as well. I must accept then, that both are trying to tell me the truth. This leaves, for me, the need for patience. Obviously, neither record has given us enough information to clarify things completely, but I believe that one day all WILL BE revealed and fully reconciled to the satisfaction of everyone.

I do not believe the discrepancy between the two records is a mistake on God's part. It ever was his intent that we develop FAITH in "things which are not seen, which are true." If the Bible and the Fossil Record were in perfect agreement in the here and now perhaps we wouldn't need to develop FAITH. Life was intended, after all, to be a test. Nevertheless, it remains an open book test, if we'll just open the book.

Answer 4

I always wonder why some religious people shun science. To me science is what helps us to understand the wonders of God. It is only when people insist that every word of scripture must be 100% literally true (even when it contradicts itself) that there are issues between science and religion.

Answer 5

I think all religious people should feel "holy" when it comes to science. They can't deny the fact that God is a scientist or at least a biologist. He planted a garden-Agriculturalist, where the gold was good (Gen-2:7)-Mineralogist/ Geologist, created people to test or experiment to see if they are obedient to him, changed water into wine-Alchemist, gave angels the power to blow up Sodom and Gomorrah with bombs-Physicist, getting women pregnant without having sex- Gynecologist and he created a system to keep people under a spell called religion so they aren't able to differentiate common sense from mythology-Mad Scientist.

They should embrace it.

Answer 6

If they seek to undermine it they are shooting themselves in the foot. I'm an atheist but I would accept that science might someday be the means of revealing a God if he exists through studying the complexity of the universe. They should embrace science.

Answer 7

The Bible is all the science People will ever need! Modern medicine, the automobile, air traffic and discovery of the North and South American continents are an abomination! If God had wanted us to live like this God would have had all this in the garden of Eden or Jesus would have invented it or discovered it for us! Repent today and go live in a cave if You don't want to end up in the lake of fire!!!!! Hallelujah, I'm saved!!!!!

Answer 8

I think that science is very important. I am not against it. However, I feel that God governs everything.

Answer 9

G-d gave us brains to work with. We should use them. Science only explains G-d's world.

Answer 10

Its necessary. Without it we wouldnt really have such a good grasp on our physical universe, we know it has within it matter,energy,space & time.