I don't understand. From the responses I've seen to evolution questions, no one else seems to believe that science and religion can explain each other. Either you're an ignorant moron Christian who is mentally retarded or you're a blasphemere that's going straight to hell. Science merely proves how something happened, religion explains why something happened. So tell me, why is it so hard for science and religion to mix together?
2007-04-21 16:35:48 · 34 answers · asked by Calista 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think I've been misunderstood. I'm asking why it's hard for some religious people to accept science as explaining how God did his work and why some hardcore scientists can't accept that a higher power could be driving things to happen, such as God helping along the theory of evolution. I'm just trying to find out why there is so much hate and misunderstanding with this subject.
2007-04-22 10:56:46 · update #1
Actually, science and Christianity can co-exist. When I debate anything from Evolution to abortion and anything in-between, I leave the Bible out of it. The word science literally means "knowledge", so it's illogical to claim that religion belongs in a separate category. Remember that God created the universe and everything in it, and He also created science. There's a verse in Isaiah where God says "Come now, let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18), and there's also a verse that tells us to always be prepared to give an answer for the hope that's within us (1 Peter 3:15). So obviously, God gave us minds and He wants us to use them! There are plenty of scientific reasons to embrace Christianity. The problem lies in that Christians and non-Christians have the same set of evidence, they just interpret it differently. But there's no reason to reject science in favor of religion.
2007-04-21 16:43:04 · answer #1 · answered by new_creation2005 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We can agree as to what science is, but we need to determine 'religion'. To say it is not Christian Catholic Muslim dogma is a start. Typically, religion is based on authority and not measurable observation. Mysticism is typically based on the internal experience, one could say 'observed', but then it is not measurable. We can all agree what 'love' is, though this too cannot be measured. The phrase, 'what if .. ' is the basis for all science fiction and fantasy. Oh, look into Robert Heinlein's short story, Magic Inc. for a take on this.
2016-05-20 23:27:48 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The disagreement is not between God and science but between arrogant theologians who think that they know everything and big headed scientists who are sure that they do.
God has no problem with science.
He invented it.
Interestingly, when prayer was still legal in school, evolution was taught regularly and nobody thought to complain. I know because I learned evolution in school, and my kid's books about dinosaurs (I remember being fascinated by them as a child) sat on my bookshelf right next to my Bible, and I never heard any complaints from either of them.
God and science once co-existed in the public arena, and did so peacefully.
2007-04-21 16:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good question, but your comment "Science merely proves how something happened, religion explains why something happened" is wrong. It's not that simple.
For many, their religion explains what, how, why, and when. This view of reality (or claim to it) is often in conflict with our continually increasing knowledge about the world that we gain through science.
When it comes to explanations of reality, science and religion really can't work together because they start from contradictory fundamental principles. Religion says reality is god as revealed to us through faith or miracles which are untestable - it does not change; whereas science seeks to make sense out of observable (and verifiable) phenomenon and is self-correcting as we learn more.
Science and religion can agree to try to get along (usually by avoiding each other), but they can't really work together. No offense intended, but it's like asking, "Why can't mathematics and fairy tales work together?"
2007-04-21 16:52:50 · answer #4 · answered by HarryTikos 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well I guess the real problem comes in when others try to state that science mandates something that you are missing in your explanation. However, I have never read in the Word of God where God has said that science has anything to do with Him or anything He has done. So in that instance, I guess I am the mentally retarded Christian who chooses to go with what God has said and nothing more. If that is your diagnosis of me, then I gladly bow to the Almighty God. May God Bless U.
2007-04-21 16:43:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the Judeo-Christian requires faith, which is essentially holding on to a viewpoint in the absence, or even in the teeth of, evidence. Science tests theories and searches for explanations. Belief is just accepting something no matter what.
2007-04-21 16:44:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Before this post got onto the the list of answers for your question all good thoughts had been obliterated by Christians dropping back to the hard line rote rot.
I guess I should not say Christians, because the protestants have lost all faith in God and Jesus and have given their souls to a Book and a bunch of Shouters. The Roman Catholics at least revere those they worship. The Protestants just use them.
2007-04-21 16:47:57 · answer #7 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well DUH!!!!!!!!
They completely contradict each other!
Bible says earth is 10,000 some years old?
Science says Earth is 4.6 billion years old?!
Bible says God made man?
Science said we evolved?
Bible says a giant flood covered earth?
Science says theres no such proof!
Science says theres no proof of hell!
What in the world are you thinking of! Seriously!
The bible doesn't explain why the hell we're here, does it?
Oh I'm sorry..to xtians its "to serve God."
Unfortunately, that doesn't satisfy people.
They'll have to come up with a new one.
The summary answer to your question?
THEY COMPLETELY CONTRADICT EACH OTHER
and any other religious person or athiest would agree.
2007-04-21 16:43:17 · answer #8 · answered by sheepeshlysheepy 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
They do work together. If fact, the Bible is a very scientific book and God does not expect you to believe in Him only by blind faith. There will be certain aspects we cannot completely understand because they are outside our current form of reality, so faith is necessary, butm for the most partm the mountain of historical and archeological evidence for the truth of the Bible is more than enough to convince me even without faith.
2007-04-21 16:43:20 · answer #9 · answered by CaTcHmEiFuCaN 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believed in North Pole being Santa’s Home.
I believed in North Pole being Super Man’s Home.
God created Man, and Spider, see what we got?
In God we trust, we went to space and the moon, is that not heaven?
Science and Religious will always work together, like before and now.
I have faith that one day all of us will see that.
Be kind to our world, our environment, our fellow createe, and each other.
Gods be with us.
Force be with us.
2007-04-21 17:25:46 · answer #10 · answered by OM 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋