Science vs. God?

Question

Why is it that scientists can accept that they can't prove God...and they run with that....but they can't accept that they can't disprove God...so they avoid that?

Answer 1

Science could care less about religious concepts, they don't even
consider them in the search for truth. You flatter yourself in thinking that your beliefs are worrisome to any scientific endeavor

Answer 2

LOL!! One of the reasons that Logicians and Scientists have such an uneasy relationship!

You are thinking Logically. In formal logic, the very basic premise is that all arguments can be divided into two kinds: deductive and inductive.

Deductive Arguments maybe flawed or wrong, but their format is valid, so there is a chance of proving something valid. An example of Deductive Reasoning would be: Friction produces heat. The head of a match is flammable. Friction applied to the head of a match would THEREFORE create fire.

Inductive Arguments are considered inherently flawed because the basis for all Inductive Reasoning is that "it has always happened that way, so it always will". The sun has always risen, THEREFORE it will always rise. Obviously that is inherently flawed, but it's shocking how often Inductive Reasoning is used. "People have always had wars, therefore they always will," etc.

Inductive Reasoning is the BASIS for all of Science.

The basis for the scientific process is that all experiments be REPEATABLE. In other words, you drop an object off a building and it falls at a certain rate. If it always does this, everytime, anywhere, then it is accepted that is ALWAYS WILL. Now in all fairness, scientists are dealing with the natural world, so what other model could they use for their experiments? It does, however, make it nearly impossible for them to prove the impossibility of anything. God, sasquatch, UFOs, etc (not to belittle God by lumping he/she in there with Bigfoot)....it is basically impossible to prove something DOESN'T exist, when your only framework is repetition. How do you repeat absence? or Godlessness or...anything?

Scientists do not avoid the issue of their inability to disprove God, as much as they avoid the issue of their inability to disprove ANYTHING. That's why, whenever someone steps forward that says they've experinced God, or Bigfoot, or aliens, the scientific comeback is always for THEM to prove it DID happen.
Because there's really no facility in the scientific method to prove the negative, because they are forced - by the limits of a physical world - to use Inductive Reasoning.

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Answer 3

There are many scientists that believe in God. Especially in the science of microbiology and astrophysics.

But to answer your question. Science deals with the study of things within the sphere of the universe and so many do not feel that it is an imperative of their discipline that God must be proven or disproven.

To take this idea further there are those amoung the scientific community that see intelligence as an emerging science. What they are proposing is an avenue into the area of the origins of consciousness by the simple notion that science should concern itself with empirical observable evidence and the evidence for the acts of intelligent behavior is certainly something worth considering since they are absolutely observable.

This adds another item to the list of created phenomenon from out of the Big Bang. Space/time/matter/energy + information + consciousness

Answer 4

we all avoid what we are usually scared about.

if there is no god, then why are we here.....to answer that question, we must understand if we are any different from other species of animals that have evolved over time.

how did we as humans evolve to the level we are now at? how did we develop speech? if there is a god, is it right to take the teachings of the bible (genesis) as the basis for Christianity as the truth..?

how do we explain the rest of the universe, dinosaurs...etc....if there is a god....in what form is this god...where did god come from....is there a race of superior (god-like) beings?

do we really have a soul...? who decides whether a soul is damned or not...? where is heaven..? do animals go to heaven....if not, why not..?

it is impossible for a god of any culture to exist in any form. we as humans have created this mythological figure, which has been adapted and changed over the years by every different culture on the planet.

surely this would make people sit up and think? no, all it does is cause arguments, hatred and wars........

we have created a god if different guises so as to try and give our own life meaning.....without which, people around the world would give up hope when they realise that the only reason we are here is to perpetuate the species

Answer 5

God Almighty is the creator of Universes. Science is a tiny part.
Scientist are creatures not creator. If Creatures is incapable to prove Creator, so what is so odd?
Creatures has limited abilities while creator is Unlimited.
Scientists are humans and still human is in learning stage. One day one scientist gives one theory after ten or twenty years another scientist refutes that theory.
This year scientist find one medicine good for some disease next year they say this medicine is more harmful for so many things so do not use it.
God Almighty is beyond all these theories, do not try to judge God in the scale of Human.
God is Almighty.....

Answer 6

Science has nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of gods. Gods are, by definition, supernatural and science deals with the natural.

Scientists are familiar with science and look for evidence. There is no evidence that gods exist. A belief in gods requires faith - belief where there is no evidence. Some scientists believe in gods, many don't. That is a personal view and has nothing to do with science's view of gods.

Answer 7

There is a great deal of literature on this topic spanning several hundred years, from the 1700's to the present.

Science claims to only deal with provable phenomena. Therefore, anything which is inherently unprovable is outside the realm of science. There is nothing within science which makes any claims one way or the other about religion, because faith is outside its purvue.

Real scientists in good standing come from both religious and secular backgrounds, and are of every known faith to varying degrees. Some of the most famous scientists were extremely devout priests. There isn't any "battle" between science and religion, although certain groups of people seem to like to stir that pot, most notably the creationist movement, in order to agitate their issues.

Answer 8

According to Quantum mechanics, when we look at the smallest particle that we can mesure and experiment with, the scientist have found that there is a influenced of creation/ observer. Therefore the observer changes/influenced the result of the test.
If the observer changes the result of the test performed doesn't this makes the observer a little grade god itself. The more we know, the more we learn about quatum mechanics we realized that we are little gods.

Answer 9

Scientists don't prove or disprove anything. They gather evidence and make theories to explain the evidence. Proofs are left to mathematicians, logisticians, and distilleries.

Basically, there is a lot of evidence that gods are man-made. You can look at any of their histories and see how they evolved from previous beliefs and myths. You can also look into human nature and see how people are ready to believe stuff even when it isn't true. We also tend to anthropomorphize things.

On the other hand, there is no real evidence that any gods exist.

Answer 10

It is difficult to prove a negative.

Prove that I am not Jesus.

See, tough.

Also, how can you disprove a fairy tale to someone that is so brainwashed they will never be satisfied with the answer?

There is no god. God is imaginary. And, religion has caused more hatred, murder, and violence in the history of mankind than any other cause. So why continue with the nonesense?
Besides, religion is a business that exists to aid and abet the molestation of thousands of young boys. You want to be part of it?

Answer 11

That would probably be because God's existance is a universal negative and cannot be proven or disproven by anybody other then God Himself. You have to be able to see and know everything before you can have an answer.