Science and religion..?

Question

'Having a scientific view on the origins of the undiverse does not necessaraly rule out a belief of god'

Do you agree or disagree with this quote?


My argument is that if you know the origins of the world through science and you believe the big bang theory that a story like religion which tells us that the earth was created out of nothing, by some unknown thing called god who just magicly clicked his fingers and made the earth, that you could not possibly believe that god is real.

What are your opinions?

Answer 1

Disagree. A scientific view is always based on observation and fact. God is based on neither of these. Apples and oranges.

Answer 2

It's probably impossible to reconcile both evolution and creationism. So it really comes down to exactly what you mean by a belief in god. I believe that god is the nexus of the connection of human minds (aka the noosphere) and I have no particular belief on the origin of the universe and earth. I don't even have a particularly strong belief that my god exists. So I can certainly have both the scientific view and a belief in god. I think that evolution is probably right because it fits in with enough of the available data.

Answer 3

This depends, it seems to me, on one's ability to accommodate new beliefs. Some people just cannot. Too many Christians, for example, see knowledge of the world as a threat to their faith, and it is because they do not have room to accept the changes in their belief structure that would be required to accept something like a 13 billion year old cosmos.

Please, I mean no offense, you seem to be in the same boat. If you were presented an argument for God's existence would you show the same flexibility that you want Christians, or Muslims, or Hindus to display?

HTH

Charles

Answer 4

Having a scientific view on the origins of the undiverse does not necessaraly rule out a belief of god


I agree. Just because you accept science, doesn't mean you reject religion.

Answer 5

Can't agree with that more. I'm someone associated with the sciences, but I'm also a devout Hindu. Hinduism works for me because it does believe in one Divinity who had a role in creating everything, but is a neutral observer and much of what happened is dictated by natural processes. In that vein of thought, one could say the trappings for a Universe were laid out by God, but the Big Bang and whatever followed was a preprogrammed mechanism that gave rise to a myriad other mechanisms (tectonic drift, evolution, birth and death of stars, etc.).

Answer 6

I agree that having a scientific view on the origins of the universe and of life does not preclude the existence of God. In fact, I find the scienctific view to be much more supportive of my Christian beliefs than the literal Bible or creationist view.

Answer 7

Agree.

I've never encountered a religion that teaches a god like the one you describe. Are you just making up facts or is there a real religion out there that teaches the God created the world out of nothing by magically clicking his fingers?

Answer 8

Great scientists like Johannes KEPLER saw God's magnificance and constantly gave praise to God Almighty for his wonderful laws built into nature. He was a creationist.

So was Isaac NEWTON.......and he wrote 1 million words about his LITERAL belief in the Scripture. He was a creationist.
" I have a fundamental belief in the Word of God....I study the Bible daily". - Isaac Newton

The electromagnetic equations of James Clerk Maxwell attest to the Magnificant mathematical inginuity of the Creator.
He was a Creationist.
Louis Pasteur...was a avid Christian and Fundamental Bible believer....

Thousands of other scientists freely admit it was their faith in God and Jesus Christ that led them to great discoveries...


here's another:

"I thought I had left the question of the existence of a Supreme Being completely open (in my article). It would be perfectly consistent with all we know to say that there was a Being who was responsible for the laws of physics". Stephen Hawking....American Scientist, 73, (1985).

Answer 9

I'll agree it has nothing to do with a belief in God. But a belief in God is still just a belief in a fantasy. It doesn't change the circumstance of the fairy tale belief one bit.

Answer 10

I don't think so. Islamic science during the Middle Age contributed to this world many Islamic scholars who made significant advances in mathematics, medicine, astronomy, engineering, and many other fields. During this time Islamic philosophy developed and was often pivotal in scientific debates—key figures were usually scientists and philosophers.