If we know God already created us and earth, why does the government spend billions on space missions?

Question

If we already know God created us, life, & earth, why is the government wasting billions on godless space missions in order to find "proof" that the origins of life are embedded in lifeless comet dust, and toxic gas on distant planets' moons? In one instance, Bush & republicans say they are men of god and doesn't believe in evolution or abortion, and in the other instance he supports the funding of billions of dollars to feed scientists' godless imaginations in these pointless space expeditions. How can all the intelligent Christians in the world sit back & let these scientists use government money to collect rocks from space to make up stories about how the bible is wrong. I ain't come from no monkey, so why in hell would anyone with common sense believe they came from some dust a billion miles away. Why is our government, especially bush, being so hipocritical when they say they believe in God's way, yet fund many science experiments whose end purpose is to discredit the Bible?

Answer 1

Lets hope that someday people like you are put in vats, injected with cancer, so scientists can find a cure. Aside from that Reagan was a christian who put alot of funding into the space program. Looking into space will not (and up to this point) has not proved creationism. Nothing will because religeon is not based on empirical study its based on faith. Money goes into research of learning about the universe, so we can understand our place in it and how relativity and astrophysics work, along with the best place to observe particle acceleration is in space. We send space ships, and rockets to learn about our solar system, to understand the moon and the other planets, and sattelites with radio telescopes to understand things like planets orbiting neutron stars and wavelengths that show our galaxy compared to other galaxies. Maybe God is nothing like christianity, islam or any man made religeon to date, and the only real way to understand the workings of such a being is through science. The bible was ancient mans way of explaining the world around him, and today its nice that people like you take up that old torch and keep the faith alive. Though it does stand that the more we know about science and the workings of inner and outter space the more we can better ourselfs. I know alot of christians who fear, and dislike new technology while they own cell phones and computers. Just another blatant show of hypocricy from you people. Some of us actualy want to see the human race make something of ourselfs, and discover all that can be known, and develope empirical theories based on this. However the human race will be signifigantly advanced when their are no more people like you who try to hold us back.

Answer 2

These are very deep questions and it's great that you are asking them.

I'm guessing your last question (which I am restating a bit) is the most important to you. "Why would our government, supposedly being run by Christians, spend money on anything that would discredit the Bible?"

First of all, Christians are taught to be have faith that the what the Bible says is the "truth." If you are a person of true faith, then NO scientific finding should be able to discredit the Bible for you, a Christian, right?

Since we now agree that science can't discredit the Bible, you are still right to ask "what scientific work is worth spending government money on and what isn't?"

Well, that is a very hard question to answer, because it depends on who's doing the asking and what their goals are.

When you are old and your joints hurt all the time, you'll probably be glad science at least looked into arthritis medicines, won't you?

Going into space has some value -- GPS systems, advanced missile warning systems (not my favorite example), telecommunications, etc. We might even need to find a new planet to live on in case this one gets nailed by a large asteroid. So maybe understanding how life "survives" rather than "began" on this planet might help to find the trail to another one.

The more interesting question to me is why Bush (a purported Christian) is so interested in getting back to the moon and Mars? Some think it's so that all the money for practical projects (those that might discredit the Bible) would be siphoned off onto projects that surely won't do anything close to that.

Answer 3

Because people are ignorant, they don't know when to stop. They dicovered something so they need to know more, they can't just go on what is. God created everything and everyone, I don't believe in that "theory" I know it for sure. There is no other explanation. Atheist people try and say how can we christians believe a book that people wrote (the bible), well I say how can you believe in dust that people suposedly "gathered" from space. There is NO OTHER explanation for how everything goes, the delicate balance of life can only be sustained by the perfect and only GOD.

Answer 4

The whole purpose of science is to discover the truth by observing and testing the world. That's the way we know how things really work, instead of reading them in some book, written in an ancient language that is not understood by most people who quote it. God didn't give us the Bible so that we would stop thinking.
If there was any doubt that mankind originated with apes, then your question is conclusive proof.

Answer 5

Because not everyone in this world is religous. And the rest of us would like to know scientific answers for questions such as: how the world began and what is beyond the universe? Some people like hard facts than simply accepting that god made everything around us and the way we are. Just because your president is christian it still means thats others have a right to beleive in something else, and it his job to appease these people.

Answer 6

we dont know that God exists...to believe in God is to have faith that he is there. No-one knows for sure that he/she exists.

Common sense to me suggests to find out where we came from and not just blindly follow the bible (which was written by the hand of man not God).

Religion, to me, was created to control the population..like an extreme set of laws....

I'm sure science is not out to discredit the bible...its about learning about the us and everything around us.


Im an athiest and I believe in evolution and to make a comical joke about this whole thing....."I would rather be a monkeys uncle than believe in God!"

Answer 7

The intent of these space missions is not to disprove the existence of God. While I do agree on the fact that the government spends too much money on our space program, research in space has led to the discovery of such inventions as pacemakers. The intention of the space program is for the advancement of technology and the betterment of man (and possibly the discovery of life on other planets), it is not to disprove the existence of God.

Answer 8

Because we don't know that God created anything, because there is no proof that God exists. Your premise is flawed. The purpose of any scientific experiment/exploration is to gather knowledge to expand our understanding of the universe.

Answer 9

Now take a deep breath and think again that God is still in control.

Answer 10

lets help each other out i will answer yours while you answer mine ok. here is my question

*who created god?
try to answer this and you will realise why the government is spending millions on space missions