2007-03-17 16:46:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
This question concerns whether it is possible for both evolution and a Creator to exist.
2007-03-17 17:06:24 · update #1
Science and Bilical truth can indeed coexist.
But only if you see the Bible as answering truly deep questions of spiritual existence and our relationship to God.
If you look to the Bible to answer mundane questions such as how many literal generations there were from Seth to Noah, or how many cubits of gopherwood went into the Ark, then you quickly turn the Bible into a Tolkien story. It is reading the Bible like a child would.
Science answers really interesting questions. But these are really mundane *unimportant* issues compared to the types of things the Bible deals with. But for some reason, people spend more time using the Bible to address those mundane scientific issues, and leave aside the really deep questions. Why? Why not leave to science what it does best? And *elevate* the Bible from the confines of *literal* interpretation, into the loftier levels of the spiritual questions.
Why aren't people looking to religious leaders who can look at the Bible in a more complex way? Why are people content with religious leaders who treat them like *children*?
2007-03-17 20:15:44 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no possibility of real convergence between what is called "truth" in science and what is called "truth" in religion. The two are such entirely different kinds of things that they cannot be related to each other.
Science, by definition, is based on verifiable evidence.
Religion, by definition, is based on speculation.
Never the twain shall meet. It is possible to consider or hold in mind both at the same time without conflict. For example--many loudmouthed fools to the contrary notwithstanding--there is nothing in the Christian Bible that contradicts the scientific notions of evolution, the thermonuclear origin of the universe ("Big Bang"), quantum mechanics, the heliocentric description of the Solar System, or modern psychology.
There is never any conflict between these matters of science and the Bible, because they are about such profoundly different things that they cannot conflict. By the same token, they cannot converge. Two different worlds.
2007-03-17 17:12:07 · answer #2 · answered by aviophage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about if we rephrase your question:
Is there evidence of a convergence of both scientific fact and religious dogma?
No. They are fundamentally incompatible, one deals with what is and what is provable and the other deals with what is necessary to manipulate and control people.
Religion wrote the bible, it's not about faith, it's about power and control.
2007-03-17 17:51:04 · answer #3 · answered by Chris H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Possible; not probable. That is the difference between science, which is based on evidence and does not " prove things and religion, which is based on faith, which it thinks is proof.
2007-03-17 17:58:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not possible. Religion requires belief in supernatural phenomena; science explicitly prohibits it.
2007-03-17 20:28:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋