hypothetical situation. if you had to choose... if you became deathly ill tomorrow, would start praying to get better, or would you go see a doctor? you're only allowed to choose one.
2007-04-12 10:18:39 · 50 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i did not mean to imply science wasn't based on facts. i'm talking about faith in science. and i'm asking for one or the other people. basically i just want a one word answer. science or god. if you go to a doctor it's science, if you pray it's god.
2007-04-12 10:34:09 · update #1
furthermore, when i say faith in science, i mean you understand there's a chance you might still die, but you put your faith in doctors to heal you. it's relevant in the sense that when you pray, you're putting your faith in god to heal you.
2007-04-12 10:38:34 · update #2
some of you seem to think i mean death is a certainty. i did not mean to imply that either. let's say there is a medical cure. what's your answer?
2007-04-12 10:41:33 · update #3
i got sick with an appendicitis a few years ago. the doctors made me aware that there is a small percentage of people who die during an appendectamy. so obviously, my chances of survival weren't 100%. i did have to put my faith in science though that everything would be alright.
2007-04-13 05:41:56 · update #4
Faith is belief without evidence.
I would choose SCIENCE. Not because of faith, but because of evidence.
2007-04-12 10:23:14 · answer #1 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you serious?
If you continue with the first option to its natural conclusion (that this god fellow micromanages every event however small) then why go to work or live indoors. Surly food will fall from the sky and the rain won't touch you unless it's part of the plan. If it IS part of the plan, who the hell are you to try to affect it.
You can't (rationally) try to reduce science to simply a rival "faith." That's a deliberate misrepresentation used by people who want to stick their heads in the sand and pretend everything will be worked out for them, requiring no effort or responsibility on their part beyond being self-rightous.
Science is a tool for figuring out HOW things work. Nothing more or less. Religon is a philosophy, they deal with two very seperate things that are in no way related.
2007-04-12 10:36:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would see a doctor, I have faith in God but we aren't supposed to test him, He helps us but we have to help ourselves.
Asking for a one word answer if unfair and would be falsely confirming what you wish to confirm.
Its not the same kind of faith. Trusting a doctor to preform operation is learning the facts about the operation, the risk of survival with and without the operation, and the possible side effects. It has to do with probability, the past success rates, and things such as that. It's not that you only had faith in the doctor, you were given info, weighted the risks and choose the most beneficial. Its not the same thing.
2007-04-12 10:23:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I trust and believe in God. I admit that it would be very hard for me to trust Him so much as to not even go to a doctor, but I've seen God preform MIRACLES...and besides, even if God didnt heal me, if I trusted in Him, I'd go to Heaven. Science is always fallable. God is infallable and the creator of all things. If science healed me, I could get hit by a car on the way home from the doctor's and die. But God could heal me, AND protect me, every day of my life. To quote the Bible :"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see(somewhere in Hebrews, I'm sry, I dont know what chapter)" I would hope to have faith like that in a time of illness and always.
2007-04-12 10:28:18 · answer #4 · answered by funkified_princess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pray.
Are you honestly equating science with doctors? Try this one on for size. This came out of a book by Osho. A beggar was dying but he couldn't open one of his hands. He apologised to the doctors for being unable to. A short time later, he died.
What happened?
It doesn't take too much research on the internet to find out that hypnosis causes right arm catalepsy. This would explain King Arthur's sword being stuck in "stone" too. Therefore, those doctors should have been apologising to the beggar for not realising earlier what was happening. I don't think it's a moralistic tale about the coins the beggar was clutching in his hand, unless it says something about the reason why we have money in our society anyway - to share the guilt around and accompany it with a sedative measure - counting and measuring.
How do you release somebody from hypnosis? That's the tricky part. A genuine pro bono effort that convinced the beggar might have helped. How does a doctor do that when, as a human being, they are tied into the psychology of forgiveness and redemption like everybody else? They should be praying too! According to Robert Baker, hypnosis can be accounted for by means of social explanations, such as compliance, relaxation, and suggestibility. This ties in with the way that hypnosis as a stressor so as to affect the way the blood brain barrier is operating.
The blood brain barrier exists in reality, but can also be used as a metaphor for the role of redemption in our lives, which is a wonderful healing mechanism. Redemption literally means "red" + empere "to purchase". What do we purchase it with? Money buys access to violent movies. In Old English, any word that looks like sell usually means "to give". Old Norse for offering a sacrifice may be linked to the modern English word "sale". This obviously ties in with the Christian message of redemption by Christ on our behalf. Even Job believed that he had a redeemer because of God's actions on his behalf. He was in dire straits but he believed that he lived in a universe that should be good.
2007-04-12 10:34:05 · answer #5 · answered by Christian person 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should have stated in your question line that you wanted cult members only. No Christian would start praying for a cure and not go see a doctor.
There was a flood. A man went up to the second floor as the first floor flooded. His neighbor had a boat and yelled to him to get in "No, I'm counting on God to save me." He got on the roof as the waters rose. The coast guard arrived in a helicopter..... same response from the man.
He drowned, because he refused the help that God in His mercy had sent for him. Since he was not a Christian, but a cult member, he did not get to have God tell him this - he did not end up in heaven. The Christians prayed that God would save them, and got in the boats that He sent.
2007-04-12 10:28:27 · answer #6 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My faith is that when God created existence, He included certain logic physical laws. Humans have studied these physical laws to develop medicine and techniques to deal with illness.
My faith does not include praying to God to change the laws of the universe for me.
I would see a doctor.
2007-04-12 10:31:24 · answer #7 · answered by MONK 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doctor
2007-04-12 10:24:06 · answer #8 · answered by Alan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would thank God that I He has allowed me to live as long ad I had, and I would trust that I am here then for a reason, and when I go home then it will also be for a reason, so, my faith is in God, no doubts, in fact, that was an easier ? to answer than many of the other ones.
2007-04-12 10:22:08 · answer #9 · answered by JesusLovesMe! 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe a mixture of both. Sure, I believe christinanity more, but I still am confused about what happens after death. You can never tell though. With science, everything constanly changes. Plus, why do the anti religious some times get good awards? Why do the religious sometimes get in big trouble? It is one of those mysteries.
2007-04-12 10:23:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God only.
Read Mark 16:16-18
2007-04-19 19:33:03 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋