In the world of Science does it's principles support the idea of a Creator? If not, why? Please explain.

Question

The "cause and effect" principle shows matter and energy could not have just appeared or always existed. Aquinas states:
In the world of sense we find there is an order of efficient causes. There is no case known (nor indeed, is it possible) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself... Now to take away the cause is to take away the effect.... Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God. (Great 19:13)

Aquinas also explains that nature is designed and the entropy law of matter and energy substantiates his assessment:
We see that things which lack knowledge, such as natural bodies… achieve their end not by chance, but by design. Now whatever lacks knowledge cannot move towards an end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence, as the arrow is directed by the archer. Therefore some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are ordered to their end; and

this being we call God. (19:13)

Evolutionists assertions are riddled by chance happenings.

Answer 1

Many scientists believe in God, or some divine intelligence. Many don't believe it al all. Apparently, from what I've been able to read, those scientists who have some personal "relationship" with whatever they conceive "God" or "Gods" to be, have absolutely no problem reconciling their spiritual and/or religious faith with the strict disciplines of science. So, as long as tey dont have a problem with it, neither do I ave a problem with them.

Answer 2

The only thing that science claims is that the natural universe is subject to natural laws that we can understand and use to make predictions about the future. Science is the process of finding out what the natural laws are.

One can (and many people have) hypothesized that supernatural beings might exist who could interfere with the natural order of the universe. The problem is that we've never observed this happening. People claim supernatural events, but many such claims have been proven to be false, and a natural explanation for the event is found.

Science doesn't have a good answer for why the universe exists. Some serious scientists are willing to consider the possibility that our universe was somehow created by a supernatural being. But if that happened, it seems that the supernatural being somehow created the natural laws of this universe, started the universe going with the Big Bang, and then has not interfered since.

Most Scientists don't give this theory much thought, since there is no way to test it, and it doesn't further our knowledge in any way. It is a useless theory. It doesn't help explain our existence, because it leaves unexplained why a supernatual being capable of creating a universe could exist, which is actually an even bigger mystery than why the universe exists.

Answer 3

The Aquinas arguments have been known to be fallacious for centuries. Indeed, Kung, in his huge book on the subject of God's existence, does not even mention them. Science does not either support or refute the idea of a creator, but it is possible to show that the idea is useless: it can predict nothing, and what science is all about is enabling predictions. Religion requires belief in the existence of supernatural phenomena, while science relies on the idea that no such phenomena exist -- or can exist. So the two are inherently absolutely incompatible.

Answer 4

Quantum Electrodynamics is riddled with "chance" happenings too. The most advanced theory in science actually DOES allow for energy and matter to be created out of nothing, and other phenomena that are simply beyond the reasoning ability of the ancient Greeks. When someone cites Aquinas and uses that to counter modern science, it is similar to citing Ptolemy to counter Stephen Hawkings views on space time.

Answer 5

Yeah! Right on! Check this out: Only in recent years has man discovered that there are mountains on the ocean floor. This was revealed in the Bible thousands of years ago. While deep in the ocean, Jonah cried, "I went down to the bottom of the mountains..."(Jonah2:6). The reason the Bible and true science harmonize is that they have the same author.

Answer 6

It is the same logic that tells us, Why do the immutable laws of the universe operate the same in all places at the same time? There is no beginning or end to them. There is something beyond what we can see and understand which holds everything together.

Answer 7

Science doesn't actually say that there is no God, just that there is no proof of God. If there were proof, which could be measured, that would be different.

Scientists even doubt their own results, they keep verifying their own results. This is the way science works.

Belief is not science. Testing is.

Answer 8

Just because something "is" does not mean it has been created by a being. Why can't you accept that we are the final results of a series of random events? This result we are in was not predetermined by anything or anyone.

Answer 9

Sceince is a system of objective knowledge.


Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on the "scientific method", as well as to the organised body of knowledge humans have gained by such RESEARCH.


THEREFORE, SCIENCE does not Support any deities

Answer 10

the very concept of science is that everything has a rational logical explanation.....of course it does not support the existence of deities.
-And even if we admit "a first efficient cause"...this in NO WAY implies it was God.