Believers: How are your science's grades like?

Question

Be honest

Also, do you believe in carbon dating
or
comparing DNA
If not why do you do in school, do you not take these classes.

Also should Creation be taught in science classes, if so how?

Answer 1

Doesn't Carbon Dating only go back 60,000 years?

I was a B student in Life Sciences, A in Geography but Chemistry always kicked my butt. I was more like a C student.

Answer 2

To be honest, I did very well in science when I actually showed up and made an effort. In middle school, I got A's in everything. In high school, I got in with a bad crowd and was too busy partying to show up for class or do my work. I still aced the tests though, even in biology.

Carbon dating...I don't know. Is there any way to be absolutely positive that it's accurate? Look at what's happened where Mt St Helens erupted. It looks as though it was that way for hundreds of thousands of years. It's only because it only happened twenty-five years ago that we know otherwise. What will happen if history is completely erased, and two thousand years from now scientists are exploring the area? Do you think perhaps they'll find fossils beneath where the lava cooled and insist that they're millions of years old, even though they are only a couple thousand years old? Is that possible?
I don't know for sure if the earth is young or old, and I don't really care. It's all semantics. Whether the earth is 12,000 years old, or 3 billion, it doesn't matter to me.

As for comparing DNA, what does that have to do with anything?

I don't really see the point of this question. I know what you're trying to insinuate; it's the same thing that some atheists tend to insinuate every day in this section. "Christians are stupid, they don't believe in science, they're all stuck back in the Dark Ages."
But it's not true.
And no, I don't think creationism should be taught in the classroom. I'll teach my kids the Biblical account of creation at home, make sure they know I have plenty of books about it, and leave room for discussion.

And there are PLENTY of scientists who believe the Biblical account of creation, by the way.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/

Answer 3

I'm a Christian. Science is not my subject. I think I failed 8th grade science, passed Biology and Chemistry, I think I got a B in Biology.

I haven't been shown the evidence for or against carbon dating so I can't say if it is accurate or a sham.

Depends what you mean by comparing DNA. In crime scenes, yes.

I hate science, it is boring to me. Now I didn't say it was useless, but it is useless for me to know the boiling temperature of mercury, the mass of your average pencil, the volume of a brick, etc etc etc.

I love history, that is my field.

And no I don't think Creation should be taught in public schools. I don't think the teachers taught Evolution well enough so I don't want to trust them with teaching Creation. Besides, if they were allowed to, the schools would probably mandate that they teach it from a neutral standpoint and basically say, "some people believe this......" but wouldn't actually present the evidence for it. Its better to leave it to higher education or private inquiry. The schools did not present enough evidence to convince me of Evolution, so I doubt they would be able to present evidence for a Creation they don't even believe in the first place.....

If I was able to be instructed by a good teacher who made the class interesting, I might really like Biology, but from what I have seen it is a boring subject where scientists are really trying to stretch the evidence to support it.

Answer 4

A and B... What does C14 dating have to do with it? The high end of its usable range is about 50,000 years. (5730 years is the half-life, so this figure represents a microscopic fraction of the original C-14.) For those that are not familiar with the facts which are evaluated to come up with "carbon dating," the element carbon, having a normal atomic weight of 12, has a radioactive isotope with atomic weight 14 which eventually becomes C12 by nuclear fission. C14 dating is concerned with the RATIO of the 2 isotopes in a given sample. As the time gets longer, the ratio eventually stops changing since all the carbon eventually becomes carbon-12. At this point carbon dating becomes useless since it is likely not to be able to accurately differentiate between samples 50,000 and 150,000 years... both will have almost no C14 left.

Answer 5

A's and B's. Carbon dating is good way of narrowing the time frame for which an object existed, and comparing DNA is perfectly cool. I love science classes and I believe in God and Jesus. Because I believe in them still don't mean that I can't make my mind up on what else I believe. Free will rules.

Answer 6

My science grades are good.

Do the Bible and Science Disagree?

Where other cosmologies found in religions have the world on the back of turtles, or the earth being the result of a fight between gods, biblical revelation is quite consistent with science. This is not to say that the Bible is vindicated by science; rather, it is science that is vindicated by the Bible. Consider the following: (note: all quotes are from the NIV)

The Spherical Shape of the Earth - "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in" (Isaiah 40:22).
The Hebrew language did not have a word for "sphere." Circle is quite sufficient.

The Earth is suspended in nothing - "He spreads out the northern [skies] over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing" (Job 26:7).

The Stars are Innumerable - "He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars -- if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be" (Genesis 15:5).

The Existence of Valleys in the Seas - "The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of breath from his nostrils" (2 Samuel 22:16).

The Existence of Springs and Fountains in the Seas - "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month -- on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened" (Genesis 7:11). See also Gen. 8:2; Prov. 8:28.

The Existence of Water Paths (Ocean Currents) in the Seas - "O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!...When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,...You made him [man] ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet...the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas" (Psalm 8:1,3,6,8).

The Hydrologic Cycle - "He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight" (Job 26:8).
- "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind" (Job 36:27-28)
- "The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again (Ecclesiastes 1:6-7).

The Concept of Entropy - "In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded" (Psalm 102:25-26).

Answer 7

In colleges I made an a in biology/lab, and a B in hydrology/lab. I do understand carbon dating, and DNA a little.
Do you have any idea how many scientist, professors, astronauts, geologist, medical doctors and so are believers?

BTW ---I probably know far more about dating methods, radio-metric and fossil index, than the professor who taught you.

I do know this- no date for any artifact can be verified more than 5500 years old. All the dates given in the millions of years are speculation, and are based on the assumed ages assigned to the different layers of the geologic column. No facts-just guesses. Check it out.
How well did you do in science?

Answer 8

I am a believer and I have always excelled in Science. But I can honestly tell you I have way more faith in God than in mankind. I do not believe in Carbon Dating and I did not take those classes in school. Those classes were not even offered in my Lutheran school.

Answer 9

My science grades were good.
Biology- A
Earth and Space- A
Chemistry - A
Physics- A

Apparently you didn't do very well in English. I think carbon dating is inaccurate.

Yes. What would be unconstitutional about teaching the complexity of the simplest life, making distinctions between micro and marco evolution, between forensic and empirical evidence? Nothing. Why don't we give our children all the scientific evidence-pro and con- and let them make up their own minds? After all, shouldn't we be teaching them to think critically on their own? Of course we should.

Answer 10

My science grades were good.

Religion and science are two ways to describe the same reality. Both should go hand in hand. When science excludes religion or religion excludes science, we are not helping the progress of Humankind and there is something important lacking. Some religious people deny science to hold on to their privileges. Some scientists deny the existence of God to justify any immoral invention.

"The fourth principle of Bahá'u'lláh is:

The Unity of Religion and Science

We may think of science as one wing and religion as the other; a bird needs two wings for flight, one alone would be useless. Any religion that contradicts science or that is opposed to it, is only ignorance -- for ignorance is the opposite of knowledge.

Religion which consists only of rites and ceremonies of prejudice is not the truth. Let us earnestly endeavour to be the means of uniting religion and science.

Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, said: 'That which is in conformity with science is also in conformity with religion'. Whatever the intelligence of man cannot understand, religion ought not to accept. Religion and science walk hand in hand, and any religion contrary to science is not the truth."