Because proof disavows faith. If you know that the earth is round, rotates so that one side of it is day and the other is night, and it circles the sun, you are much less likely to believe that the earth is flat with four corners, held up by four pillars, and that night and day could exist before the sun was created.
Science disproves theology, and that's bad business for churches.
2007-04-30 05:54:13
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answered by Anonymous
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It's a lot about power. Hundreds of years ago, the Catholic Church was a very large, powerful organization. They kept people in line by threatening them if they did not follow all of the rules of the church and if they did not believe, absolutely, everything the church taught. And, of course, there was a lot of money involved: building those cathedrals and having so much gold and jewels took money. Now, along come the scientists, like Galileo, for example, who say, hey, the Bible's wrong. The earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around. Then comes someone like Darwin who says life on earth was not created as it says in the Bible. Well, the church can't have this sort of thing. People will start to think for themselves, and then they're not going to give their money to the church or go fight wars for them. It's a conflict between knowledge and fantasy, and at the heart of it is power and money.
2007-04-30 12:59:04
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answered by Anonymous
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You know, I've wondered that myself.
For some reason, a great many "Christians" seem to be afraid of science.
I don't understand why. After all, God created science in the first place.
CAVEAT:
Like any of God's good gifts, science, too, can be perverted. For instance, we have discovered how to clone animals, and get clean drinking water from the ocean, and yet there are still starving children who haven't got even a clean glass of water to drink. Why should that be?
Why do so many people think stem cell research can only be carried out if we use aborted fetuses?
Why aren't we using better, cheaper, cleaner energy?
I am sure you can think of a thousand more examples, yourself.
Science should be used to help mankind, but it seems to have become a money-making industry.
Could it be our old nemesis
GREED???
One of the biggest hold-ups to serious research, sad to say, are huge corporations who have patented such things as genes...according the the Reader's Digest...which they then charge outrageous amounts of money to anyone who wants to use their "product" in their research. Outrageous!
2007-04-30 13:05:09
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't think there ever was a conflict between true Christianity and science. During the Dark Ages, the Bible was suppressed, so people (and the Catholic Church, which does not follow Scripture) got their beliefs from pagan superstitions and Greek pseudoscience.
When the Reformation occurred and the Bible was once again released to the public, a great leap in scientific knowledge began. In fact, the founders of almost every major branch of science today were young-earth creationists, looking for evidence of order in nature, which the Bible supported.
It wasn't until a great atheistic mentality started taking over the world, with several revolutions happening in Europe and America at the latter end of the 18th century. People started throwing off the rule of monarchies, and in fact, any kind of authority, including God. America was the only one that, although free of the monarchy, had not rejected God. In the wake of these revolutions, new godless thoughts in Europe arose that gave birth to people like Darwin, Charles Lyell, Karl Marx, Nietsche, Thomas Huxley, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, etc. which have been responsible for much of the misery and error in the 20th century.
2007-04-30 13:03:30
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answered by FUNdie 7
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Because Science conflicted with Religious Dogma.Not only Christian but most Religions.A lot of Christians have been quicker to come around.
2007-04-30 12:55:57
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answered by Dr. NG 7
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As a Christian I find nothing wrong with having my children learn all the different sciences and theories that are being taught in these fine schools across the United States however somewhere along the line the schools decided to start speaking out about my beliefs " Christianity " Why is it fine when we are letting the schools teach their ways to our children but without asking ours is being pushed out of the system & often talked down as if it were the fault of everything wrong with sociaty. Speaking straight the fault with sociaty today is not enough people raiseing the children in good christian environments.
2007-04-30 13:02:42
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answered by S.O.S. 5
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Hundreds of years ago science claimed:
The world was flat
Bleeding (taking blood out of the body) was a great way to heal the sick
Disease was caused by "miasmas" - particles of air
Whites were the supreme race, all others were inferior, especially the aborigine races
The sun revolved around the earth
The earth was the center of the universe
Etc., etc..
Science today has declared itself to be nothing more than the means of disproving theories, and that nothing can be proved.
There are eternal, unchangeable truths found in each religion, and there are bound to be conflicts with science. But I would prefer religion to something that has already declared itself to be without a foundation of truth.
I know that God lives, and loves each of the inhabitants of the earth because they are his children. And we loved him too before we came here.
2007-04-30 13:02:53
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answered by Free To Be Me 6
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Schneb nailed it down.
A couple of things I would add is that most early scientist were Christians-don't forget that. And, the problem was not with Christianity per se', but with the Vatican. Roman Catholicism was a political and religious power that dominated the western world. They did not like change.
2007-04-30 12:59:02
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answered by DATA DROID 4
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It was a power struggle. It was wrong of the established church to try and control people. But such is the sign of an insecure faith. But today, science is making the same error in the establishment of their own religious views. It is the same error in reverse.
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. - Richard Lewontin, Biologist, The New York Review, 1/1997
2007-04-30 12:53:06
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answered by Anonymous
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Because science had yet to caught up to Christianity in its understanding of the nature of the universe and how it works. So it keeps finding itself in conflict with the Bible's truth.
2007-04-30 12:54:08
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answered by dewcoons 7
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