So many people in Yahoo Answers make up new facets about God in order to keep up with new findings in science. I just read one answer where, in the big bang theory, the singularity is God's closed palm and the explosion was God's open palm. Whar are they going to say if the big bang theory is somehow proven wrong?
2007-02-06 06:45:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
This has been happening for centuries, not just on Yahoo answers. Back before science, before we understood very much about the way the world works, almost everything was attributed to God or gods: the weather? controlled by gods; disease? God's will; creation of the Earth? God. As scientific understanding progressed, and we understood more and more about physics, chemistry, and biology, the things attributed to God diminished. In theology, this is called "the God of the gaps", where what is left to God are the constantly-diminishing little spaces where scientific understanding has not yet reached. Most modern (non-fundamentalist) religions have dealt with this by taking God totally out of the realm of the physical, into the realm of the spiritual.
There is, however, one huge, possibly unfillable gap, and that is: What is the basis of reality? Why is there something, rather than nothing? You can put God into that gap too, but in that case God truly is an ineffable mystery.
2007-02-06 07:09:52 · answer #1 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The way people try to put God and science into the same context seems a bit silly to me sometimes. What you used as an example is someone trying to explain God's creation of the universe in terms of the Big Bang. Which is certainly fine, if you believe in both God and the Big Bang.
The problem we've been having recently is with people trying to prove God wrong with the Big Bang or vice versa. People who are "defending" God start putting things like the Bible into a scientific context (which it is certainly not -- its a religious book). People who say the Big Bang happened argue that it, because it is explained by science, cannot have possibly allowed for God to have design there.
When it all comes down to it, science is an observation of the "natural" and God is the explanation for the "supernatural". Neither, I expect, will ever be able to explain or refute the other. The "God of the gaps" is an unfortunate misunderstanding of religious folks trying to attribute God to the things we don't know about the natural -- things we might discover later. You must have patience with these people. Most are not trying to say that God is responsible for "phenomena-A", but are trying to express that there is so much we don't know about the world, "phenomena-A" for example, how could it have come about by anything but God? Some will say, "We'll know why someday," and they usually fit into the atheist group. Others say, "There's no way we can know even close to everything," and most of them will fit into the religious groups.
2007-02-06 15:31:44 · answer #2 · answered by Jonny Jo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In my opinion people can't accept the fact that god is real and watching over everyone at all times. Some don't like the answer that you just have to believe. You can't see or feel him but you know he is there. I have some trouble with the fact that god is jesus in a human form (it has something to do with the trinity) and that mary had a baby when she was a virgin but then again anything is possible with god. I think to detailed or so my parents say. I believe in god and not the big bang theory. The thing with the singularity being gods closed palm is the lamest thing I have ever heard. Some of you may not like my answer but it is just my opinion.
2007-02-06 16:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by T-Bob Squarepants 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm a catholic, i believe in God and i also study forensic science. i believe the big bang happened. all the creation story is is a metaphor for the creation of earth and space and everything. think about when religion was developed, they needed a way to explain the creation of the world, coz they didnt have science then, so they used something that was easily understandable.........hence the story of creation. my faith tells me that if im good i got to heaven when i die.........science keeps me healthy and intelligent enough to keep myself alive for as long as i can. surely if science was morally wrong, or a mortal sin, God would have made a point of destroying it by now??
2007-02-06 16:38:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
... that God wanted us to believe it was that so that he could keep the truth hidden for a while longer.
When people can't explain something, like the Big Bang theory, or what is outside the universe, they credit it to God. It has always been that way, and in my humble opinion, so long as we keep on discovering more, God will get less credits to his name, and in the end completely disappear.
2007-02-06 15:28:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
People come up with 'stuff' all the time. It's not surprising that some of it is about God. But if they bothered to read their Bibles, theyd realize that He didn't use His Hands at all. He SPOKE. "Let there be Light" and BANG! There was light. No prestidigitation involved. Now if we want to talk about quantum strings, and the nature of vibration.......
2007-02-06 15:17:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think the big bang theory really happened. That's why they call it a THEORY it hasn't been proven at all it's just a guess. Sounds like a crock to me, but I do believe in God.
2007-02-06 14:51:15 · answer #7 · answered by krazy_chic6944 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They are just being silly. It all comes down to faith, you have faith in science or faith in God. Since does not offer much hope for the future. The Church of Global Warming, is one example of faith in Science.
2007-02-06 14:50:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I do not place one bit of my faith in what science has to say.
I place 100% of my faith in Almighty God, who created the Heavens and the Earth!
2007-02-06 15:01:56 · answer #9 · answered by atiana 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I never heard that but it seems sort of weird.
If they prove it wrong they will say"Oh"
2007-02-06 18:45:52 · answer #10 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋