How can so many have religious / spiritual faith in these great days of science ?

Question

I don't think that ignorance is bliss but rather a bane .

Answer 1

These great days of Science still cannot explain everything as much as you would want it to. It can't explain that deep rooted feeling and need for our creator--which is the very thing that makes us human and not part of the animal kingdom.

Answer 2

I find too many of the answer wrong-headed in BOTH directions.
For my agnostic/atheist colleagues
First, let's be a little kinder to ourselves as a species. As we speak, there is good work being done by scientists attempting to answer the basis for that question: "Why do we believe?" One basic conclusion coming out of all the approaches is that various aspects of religion have served us as coping skills in dealing with this mean world. In short (close you eyes here if you're Evangelical), we seem to have EVOLVED religion - along with other "cultural" traits.

Obviously that doesn't validate the content of any religious concept - they could ALL be false by this account. But it does mean we are probably "predisposed" to this world-view. (Obviously it's not at the level of "unavoidable" and large chunks of humanity have quite happily discarded most or all of it.)

For my religious friends:
1. It is a fundamental mistake to look for any solution in religion for which science may apply. Yes, this even includes "the origin of life." You are barking up a tree that isn't there.
2. Some of the scientists working on the evolutionary problem I mentioned above are devoted believers.

BTW, Please stop bringing up Einstein. He did NOT believe in a personal god - and he said so, rather vehemently, on more than one occasion.

Answer 3

I think that there are three good reasons for the continuation of organized religion in our otherwise secular age:

1. The public is not well informed of basic scientific processes, particularly evolution, natural selection, and the skepticism inherent in the scientific method. Plus religious faith is often seen as "off limits" to reason.

2. Religion has taken a commercial role in our free market economy and now denominations compete to attract the public with similar pie-in-the-sky promises (megachurches are an extension of this)

3. It's hard to be an atheist or agnostic in this country without experiencing negative repurcussions from the intolerant.

Ignorance isn't bliss. Especially when we live in an old, awesome universe that some people want to reduce to a six day brainchild of some petty god.

Answer 4

These great days of science reveal much about realities of the natural world. But that isn't a reason to remain ignorant of spiritual realities. Science and faith each reveal objective truths that cannot be revealed by the other. The truth revealed through one always compliments and supports the truth revealed through the other, for truth cannot conflict with truth. One cannot be truly informed or truly educated if one rejects or ignores one of the two great realms of truth, and concentrates totally on the other.
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Answer 5

science explains how God does things.
Many people think science is so very advanced. It is....for us, but there are so many mysteries.
Science has no idea how life came about.
Science knows little of even the human body. They brain is still a mystery.
Science is helpful to us all but it most certainly is not the be all.
You speak as if religious faith and science are mutually exclusive. This is false.
Einstein, one of the most intelligent humans ever to live, felt strongly that God existed and created all.
You fall for the propaganda of the secular movement in our country.
I can assure you, they do not understand the world and the universe better than Einstein.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Science does not contradict God. Science actually shows us that God does exist. For the evolutionist - the Quantum Leap theory is almost the same as creation theory (remember that evolution is a theory and not proven). Steve Hawking also states, "if everything happened by random (chance) that is what we would expect to find. But, there is such incredible ORDER in everything." The greatest physicist Einstein also acknowledges God in physics. I could go on for pages and pages. Look at the FACTS and evidence that we have and be scientific in your research. You will find that the evidence is overwhelming in favour of a creator (intelligent design), or God. Did you know that more than 60% of scientists in America believe in God?

Answer 8

Oh, please.

I was told by SCHOOL that PLUTO WAS A PLANET

What happened

Why am I suddenly WRONG to believe that!

If SCIENCE is so great and wonderful why does it change like the wind!

God never changes. God is a rock. Science is a slippery embankment that crumbles, falls and changes face every 50 years.

Answer 9

Science just explains the particulate matter of God, which was already there. Not all of us are lead around by the nose you know. Some can think for themselves with the gray matter that God gave us. I read a lot of scientific articles, and the more I learn, the more my belief is confirmed.

Answer 10

Because I think science has yet to delve into spirituality. Is it so difficult to believe, that during our short time here on Earth, in comparison to the time the Earth has been around, that we haven't figured everything out yet? After all, it wasn't that long ago that people thought the Earth was flat, and that leaches cured diseases. Look at the strides medical science alone has made in the last decade - ten years! I think it's premature to assume that in our brief existence, science has discovered it all! :)