Why do theists keep attacking science as if they think it's why we don't follow their silly religions?

Question

Seriously. Not everyone is going to believe in your made up god.
"Science" has nothing to do with the fact that your religion has no logical backing. It just doesn't. Get over it already and answer a question that someone actually needs help with.

Answer 1

What else are they going to attack? They have absolutely no proof for their silly fantasy so its not like they can defend it.

Answer 2

I'm perplexed. I'm both a theist and an avid follower of science (not so much technology, but that's OK too).

If science is the benchmark, and people are at least partly psychologically explicable beings, then why would you need to ask this question? Shouldn't you know?

Science is based on the idea of repeatable experiments. The fact that experiments can be repeated means that there can be peer review, controls used to compare different experiments etc.

From a scientific point of view, I will describe your question. How many times have you asked this question before? What are the controls? How will you link the answers you receive to this question with the answers you've received to other questions?

From a religious point of view, Isaac Newton was a deist and believed in natural laws that God-fearing people need to manipulate. I don't think that this is the case because I have seen God's hand in the cycles that society experiences (theism) and this has been through personal prayer and reliance on Him. I see no reason to attack science, except to question methodologies that don't seem to attempt correlation between the findings of diverse scientific disciplines.

Answer 3

Who's attacking science? Are people still saying the earth is flat? Do they doubt the genome?

If you're talking about evolution or the big bang or any other recent creation myth, well, who really cares. They're just reacting to their crazy biologist in-laws who try to disprove religion with some of the worst pseudo science since alchemy. I don't really care one way or the other, but I don't think scientists have discovered the origins of the universe yet (they can't even cure the common cold).

If you're talking about the environmental debate, it's because of political ties. It's the same reason many of them embrace free market capitalism and the war, and why many peace activists embrace homosexual marriage. It's the stupid political party system that doesn't allow people to separate one issue from another.

Answer 4

I also don't understand why some believers are so determined that science is their enemy. There isn't a single scientific discovery or breakthrough that religion hasn't fought against tooth and nail. From jailing people for suggesting the Earth revolved around the sun, to the time when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it defied the biblical curse pronounced against women. Even though historically, those fighting against science in the name of religion are always proven wrong, religion still manages to survive to fight yet ANOTHER scientific breakthrough. (And so on it will go until the end of time.) It's all the same sort of argument, different day.

Answer 5

I don't attack science and I'm a theist, in fact there are many scientific theories that back up my beliefs and really not many if any that disagree. I don't have the same God concept as most Theists though.

I made a video called Why I can't be an Atheist, you should watch it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xzL4MM9W50s

Also, I wouldn't dream of telling you what to believe.

Answer 6

Answer these Questions(scientifically) and I'll follow the Evolution Religion instead of the Science religion of Christianity.


The test of any theory is whether or not it provides answers to basic questions. Some well-meaning but misguided people think evolution is a reasonable theory to explain man’s questions about the universe. Evolution is not a good theory—it is just a pagan religion masquerading as science.

1. Where did the space for the universe come from?

2. Where did matter come from?

3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?

4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?

5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?

6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?

7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?

8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?

9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)

10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)

11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?

12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true?

13. When, where, why, and how did: a) Single-celled plants become multicelled? (Where are the two- and threecelled intermediates?) b) Single-celled animals evolve? c) Fish change to amphibians? d) Amphibians change to reptiles? e) Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!) How did the intermediate forms live?

14. When, where, why, how, and from what did: a) Whales evolve? b) Sea horses evolve? c) Bats evolve? d) Eyes evolve? e) Ears evolve? f) Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?

15. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)? a) The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)? b) The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? c) The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? d) DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts? e) The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose? f) The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants? g) The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones? h) The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system? i) The immune system or the need for it?

Answer 7

No, I think they attack science because it undermines their belief.

When scientists prove that the earth is millions of years old, it causes people who believe in the 6000 year theory to make a decision. Either they scrap their belief in literal biblical teaching, or they can choose to go after the science. Unfortunately many choose to go after the science.

It is allot like a bunch of Preschoolers telling adults that their understanding that Santa is not real and only a belief is unfounded.

Answer 8

personally i appreciate science very much, it's contribution to our lives has been tremendous. i don't attack science, i attack the notion that all there is to be known can be done through science.

science does not discover anything that was not already true to begin with, it only puts a language on principles for us to understand and disect.

inventions are pretty cool though, if only their consequences didn't have such a negative impact on our ecosystem

Answer 9

Atheists are the ones pulling the science card. Not Christians. Science is great. Does not change my faith tho'.
Some need "their science" to believe in something other than God. Logic or not for you, Christianity is still around. Who has yet to disprove it? Change may happen, but millions are not leaving.

Answer 10

Because some people cannot stand the idea that there is any explanation to the world other than their own "beliefs". Thank goodness science doesn't work that way.

Answer 11

It's bizarre to me that they see "science" as this THING that they can reject.

Yes, airplanes just magically move through the sky. We have no idea how! And cars move magically too! And engineering isn't based in science, but the fact that buildings look prettier when we build them according to certain rules!

What color is the sky in their world?