Why do most theists think that the goal of science is to disprove God?

Question

As if one studied a lifetime only to debunk the Tooth Fairy...I mean, really.

Science can easily disprove fairy tales, but that's not its sole goal, not even one of the main goals of science....

Answer 1

simple,........ because if some boofhead is going to wave his arms around claiming he parted the 7 seas,..... healed the blind by tapping people on their pumpkins,..... walked on water without sinking like a brick,..... and sailed a heap of junk ( noahs ark ) around the world dropping off a polar bear here, and a dinosaur there, and not expect to get challenged over it,... ( for spouting off a load full of s**t ).... is obviously more stupid than he thought.

( As the old saying goes,......... if you wanna spout bulls**t,..... expect some flak to follow.)

Answer 2

There are Theists who do accept science and the scientific method. There seems to be this assumption that you can either be a Fundamentalist Christian, or an absolute Atheist -- one extreme or the other. Nothing can be further from the truth. Most people, I have found, are closer to the middle than to one or the other extreme. I think that many reasonable people tend to accept current science, while allowing for the possibility of the supernatural and the Divine.

The goal of Science is to understand the Universe, the goal of Religion is to find meaning in it. I do not think those two goals are mutually exclusive. You can have both. Science is very good at measuring that which can be measured. But there is more to the Universe than can be perceived at this time.

Answer 3

Why do you think that most theists think that? How many have you actually met? I think the goal of science is the same as the goal of religion - to find the truth. The first uses logical means (hopefully), and the second uses spiritual means (hopefully). Either way, God is the ultimate scientist. He knows everything already.

Answer 4

on what basis do you state......... "most theists think that the goal of science is to disprove God".

this is your opinion. I can easily answer your question. Your unsubstantiated opinion is wrong. after all, if you can speak for everyone on the planet who believes in God, so can I!!!!

Answer 5

I can't really give a good answer to that....But I seem to have a story about the scientist who goes to heaven but tries to show up God.Here goes.

A scientist went to heaven,and went to the gates and told God that he could do anything that God could do. So God takes up this mans challenge and says to the scientist."Alright then,If you think you can show me up.Lets make a man." The scientist says "okay." so God picks up a handful of dirt, and the scientist picks up a handful of dirt. But God stops and looks at the scientist and says,"nope you have to make your own dirt."

For some of the poeple who don't get this. What I'm trying to say is that God created everything. But science has not figured out a way to make dirt. There hope that will make it easier to follow

Answer 6

I am glad when science scratches their heads at trying to determine the source of motion.
Einstein, Hawking, Newton, Galileo... all the greatest in history, without answers to the seemingly easiest question.

1Cr 1:26 ¶ For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]:
1Cr 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1Cr 1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1Cr 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

Answer 7

Because so many jerks try to use science to beat theists over the head?

Answer 8

I would hope that the goal of science was to discover the truth - whatever that truth may turn out to be.

Answer 9

the problem with the teapot is that you in simple terms made it up. We did not see the folk and congregations who made the perception of a author up and prolonged the plan into the international. on condition that we do not for sure be conscious of it grow to be made up, that is more advantageous in all possibility than your party to be fact. in spite of everything, in simple terms staring on the international without medical remark, its certain created.

Answer 10

I do not believe that most theists do. Commonly it is the type of questions here (such as mentioning the tooth fairy) that bring up comments that make you believe that.

Science is very limited. It can't even find diets that work.