Why is that a bad thing? That's how we learn, by asking questions. It's naive to assume that the world is a neat tidy little package isn't it? Or that the non-changing word of God does a better job? (non-changing except for the rewrites of course)
2007-02-15 22:24:24 · 11 answers · asked by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not good or bad, but it is true.
It's called expanding your vision. The more you see, the more you're able to ask about, and you really won't stop asking questions until you're either God or you're dead.
2007-02-15 22:30:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought that's what is so great about science - one question leads onto so many possibilities and answers. It teaches us to have lateral thinking and to always expect something to happen or change. New discoveries about this planet are happening constantly. It was only about 12 years ago that scientists began studying the ocean and sea bed and its cause and effects on the earth. That has opened up a whole new field and I find it all very exciting. To quote Richard Dawkins ... "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world".
2007-02-15 22:41:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Questions are good.
People will always choose religion over logic because of fear of eternally roasting like a marshmallow.
The most successful ministers, are those who can scare people the most into doing what they want (or burn).
I take it that since there has never been a perfect person yet, I should live my life how I want and love it. After all, if we can't help doing wrong, why worry about it? We are only human...
2007-02-15 22:52:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Word does the better job for me, but neither is in a tidy little package.
2007-02-15 22:30:04 · answer #4 · answered by rezany 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It isn't a bad thing at all. The conflict with religion comes when science is confused with the philosophy of materialism.
2007-02-15 22:58:44 · answer #5 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because questions must be reasoned out and reasoning is a sin in Christianity. Questioning is bad and threatens faith:
"Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God." - Martin Luther
2007-02-15 22:35:53 · answer #6 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would hope it leads to more questions because that involves us gaining a greater understanding of the world we live in.
2007-02-15 22:36:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion tells us it has all the answers but as religious answers aren't based on even a scrap of evidence we must assume they are surely all the wrong answers.
2007-02-15 22:35:32 · answer #8 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A field that I have some knowledge about is nutrition. Ironically, the more I learn the more I realize I don't know. This pushes me onward to keep expanding my knowledge base.
2007-02-15 22:31:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's the essence of the Socratic method. Of course, it's no substitue for mindless dogma.
2007-02-16 00:50:58 · answer #10 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋