If not, what's the point in it?
2007-03-13 03:35:59 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We have learned that science has constantly changed the way humans think for many years. Copernicus, Newton, and Darwin to name a few. They were considered enemies to the church. When all they sought was the truth. Not to say that God does not exist, but clearly Christians have had to change their views (not beliefs) because of science in the past. Some science will contradict the bible. Believers shouldn't feel threatened, but welcome these challenges.
2007-03-13 03:42:49 · answer #1 · answered by brotherman2112 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientists are continually trying to find answers to the dilemmas that confound humankind, and they've made great progress. Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong, but then another scientist comes along later and discovers what is right. Humankind was given this wonderful brain so that we can question the world around us instead of just accepting things as they appear to be.
One point of it is all the wonderful progress that has been made in medicine. A hundred years ago, if a man had a heart attack, he died or at least became an invalid. Today, he can still, because of the advances made by science, lead a normal healthy life. A diagnosis of diabetes is no longer a death sentence as it was less than a hundred years ago. Children no longer contract polio. More recently, we are now getting closer to an understanding of the workings of the human brain and therefore to knowing how to treat mental illnesses caused by chemical imbalances of neurotransmitters thus relieving the plight of these unfortunate individuals who were once shunned by society.
The desire and the capacity to seek to understand the world and it's workings were given to us by God. It sets man apart from all other living things. That's what it means when the Bible tells us that God gave us dominion over all things.
Science will never be able to explain all things, but it will give us an alternative fuel solution, a cure for cancer and AID's and a means by which to slow down global warming. Hopefully it will also find a way for men to live in peace and for all of us to enjoy this wonderful world that God gave us.
2007-03-13 11:24:32 · answer #2 · answered by KIZIAH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science produces models of reality, and in the course of time these models have been more and more useful. There is much technology today that was created using the models science has produced.
On the other hand, nobody says that science will explain everything one day. The models of science are not perfect and subject to continuous refinement. In fact, this is what science is all about. The idea that "everything" can be explained is a purely religous one. Heisenberg would tell you otherwise.
2007-03-13 10:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, science will never be able to explain everything. The more we find out, the more we realise we don't know.
Only religion has the arrogance of trying to explain everything. How are we to trust something that claims to have all the answers? How can it possibly be true that religion can contain all the answers?
The purpose of science is to document, not to explain; to show the mechanism, not the reason. Science does not offer the arrogance of explaining why something is - only showing THAT it is.
Explanation belongs in the realms of art or philosophy - not religion or science, and even then ONLY if we accept that an explanation is always subjective.
2007-03-13 10:39:34 · answer #4 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nope -- Contrary to popular belief, science has no explanation for countless things and if you just think about it, many things that are put forward are actually THEORIES. Theories are not fact, they are there to be disproven. Scientists actually argue about them -- and they ask us to believe something they don't have any hard proof about...if that's the case, they must believe in faith...
Can you touch a theory? Can you taste a theory? Can you give me a theory on a plate? Doesn't science constantly say, to see is to believe? Does science know exactly how dinosaurs acted? Does it know how they disappeared? Unless a scientist actually observes a real dinosaur, how it eats, how it interacts, how it hunts, everything about them are just assumptions...and yet how many take what they say about dinosaurs as fact?
2007-03-13 10:50:41 · answer #5 · answered by Dandirom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point of science is not to explain things but to learn about whatever that branch of science covers, but yes, once you know why and how, you can explain it.
2007-03-13 10:41:56 · answer #6 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The point was not to explain everything, but as much as possible.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-03-13 10:40:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams - Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2007-03-13 10:57:04 · answer #8 · answered by tor 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far along as we are as the human race, science should be able to answer many of the questions asked. Science can only go as far as we've advanced.
For example, science has allowed me to go scuba diving while wearing stunners. SIMPLY AMAZING.
2007-03-13 10:39:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
science has a methodology all of its own and doesn't claim to do anything else (although some scientists do, but that's a philosphical claim, not a scientific one). Blaise Pascal said 'the heart has its reasons, which reason does not know': every human being has experienced this.
2007-03-13 10:45:03 · answer #10 · answered by a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋