religion science?

Question

I just got done talking to my ex-church and I was really unprepared so I was in the middle of playing a video game when they showed up and I studdered a lot. lol I talked to a youth pastor wich confronted me with a lot of questions he asked things like what holds an atom together and about the complexity of the world I know sorta what holds an atom together I know it has to do with strong forces wich attract and pull themselves together but im sort of an ametuer when it comes to a lot of things in science. Im having trouble with understanding how the world formed naturaly and it seems so perfect. Well with my free-thunking mind ive started to wonder what is the evidence of evolution and the big bang and I mean I dont understand a lot of it. I truly dont believe in God or the bible. Dont come to me and say the world is to complex so there must be a God and dont come to me and say the bible or your faith is proof of God. I want science. Ive been lyed to far too much tonight.

Answer 1

The world IS very complex. That is why a simplistic answer you could get from a "youth pastor" is very unlikely to be right. Such answers don;t do anything to answer the original question, they only make the people who believe them feel like they have a solid answer. If an incorrect answer with a cloak of ultimate Truth is good enough, then by all means go with myths. But if you want reasoned answers to some of the questions, and hope of finding out the ones that are unknown, stick with learning about ideas that have gone through being published in a peer reviewed journal.

The Internet has many resources to learn about the things you mentioned. I would suggest sticking to websites with a ".edu" address, at least at first. If you want to see some of the debate about origins involving science and religion, http://www.talkorigins.org/ is a good place to start.

Answer 2

I'd recommend taking a course on the history of life and a course on evolutionary biology. The geologic evidence supports evolution and the development of life in all of its wonderful forms from molecules by random chance, not by the hand of God. Also, there are a lot of imperfections that would be hard to reconcile with the idea of an omniscient, omnipotent Creator- why would he give ostriches useless wings? Why would he give some creatures only partialy funtional light sensing cells, and other animals eyes? Why did he create the roundworm, and other parasites? If there is no such thing as evolution, then why is the agricultural sector losing millions a year trying to find new insecticides as pests evolve resistance to the old ones?

Red shift provides evidence of the Big Bang--all the planetary bodies are moving away from each other, expanding out from some center. You can use instruments to see how they compress and stretch out light moving in front of and behind them.

The fossil record is a powerful tool supporting evolution of life through time, as is molecular DNA evidence which suggests a common ancestor for all eukaryotes in the last billion years. There is so much evidence for science, and nothing testable against.

And it's beautiful and wonderful and amazing, but not perfect. And we just got lucky.

Answer 3

Even if science doesn't provide ALL the answers, it sure provides a lot more than any religion ever will. And they'll all be answers you can choose to prove or disprove, whereas religion will always make grandiose claims with some conveniently illogical foundation that prevents it from ever being tested.

As far as your struggle with why the world (or, lo, the very universe) seems so perfect, take a look at the "anthropic principle". It, briefly, states: If the world hadn't formed the way it is now, we wouldn't be here to discuss it. This is the exact kind of environment that we, as humans, needed to come into being, so of course it looks perfect to us.

Answer 4

First off, congratulations and welcome to the world of rational thought!
To offer up some of the evidnece you are looking for: As far as evolution goes, two things that strike me are the fact that flu virus's do mutate every year, forcing us to identify the new strain and develop vaccines. Secondly, your own body is full of the evidence in the form of vestigial items like your cocyx (tailbone) where once upon a time... yes there was a tail. It is quite rare, but sometimes kids are born with a small tail present, it is usually removed quickly after birth. Some whales still have small hind legs...the list goes on. There are many reputable web sites available where you can obtain and evaluate the evidence on your own. And that first responder, Ranger whatever, is clueless. The big bang theory does NOT postulate matter coming from nowehere. In fact it says that all matter was present in the form of an almost infinitely dense singularity, so dense as to make a black hole look like a vacuum.

Answer 5

Some religious anti-Big Bang anti-evolution people argue the following:
1) It's impossible that something could have come from "nothing"
2) The 2nd Law says that entropy always rises, things always go towards greater disorder.
Well, all right, let's look at both of them together. If entropy is always rising, then it was less in the past, and the further back you go, the smaller it gets, until it gets to be 0. Then you have perfect "order", with absolute minimum entropy. This is the "nothing". Since disorder NECESSARILY follows, so that entropy rises from 0, we have the Big Bang "from nothing". What's wrong with that?
Sure, you know that you don't know much about science, but just because you're unable to defend yourself for lack of knowledge doesn't mean that "therefore", science is false and God wants you to believe in creation, by virtue of your ignorance. Next time people question why you believe in such "loony" things such as Big Bang or evolution, ask them, "How does it hurt my chances of getting into heaven, if I believe in those things?" There's nothing in the bible whatsoever that says your salvation depends on believing in literal creationism. Jesus never said, "Besides believing in me, you must also believe that God created the world in six days." In fact, he had nothing at all to say about Genesis, never even mentioned Adam or Garden of Eden. .

Answer 6

Check out websites for educational channels such as PBS discovery, national geographic etc. They are geared to convey science knowledge without the assumption that the audience is scientifically savvy

Answer 7

Plain and simple, it is impossible for God not to exist. If the Big Bang were true how did it start??? If the Earth was formed naturally how did life get here? It is a scientific law that life can't come from un-life

Answer 8

Ranger, I love the way you creation science types try to make evolution seem absurd by talking about a fish turning into a mountain goat. Then you tell us about talking serpents!

Answer 9

These Creation scientists ( what an oxymoron) talk absolute tripe. By the way, have you heard about the "Doyen " of creationists, Kent Hovind? Typical !

Answer 10

Why does technology substitute its strategies lots you say? properly its through fact technology is open minded to settle for brand spanking new logical suggestions, everybody makes errors authentic? particular, so what you do is you fix your mistake and attempt to advance it incredibly than sticking to the religious bullshit for 1000's of years you ******* cavemen.