Why must religion attack science, reason, logic, and rational thought?

Question

Does this validate faith?

Answer 1

Reason and knowledge are the death of faith. Once you know something or you can reason something, you don't need faith anymore.

They ARE enemies in that faith cannot survive in the presence of reason, so faith must villainize reason in order to preserve itself.

Answer 2

Religion has of late adopted on a whole, an agenda of scientific support, much more than it had in the past.

Past attacks against science were in fears of peasent education and knowledge of things that were once only known to the highest in power (the most educated).

Science also has made many question their faith, regardless of religion, and the faithful from all walks have found this as an attack.

Does it validate faith? Perhaps in some minds, but those would seem ignorant would they not? Some believe by the denial of scientific truths they preserve the mysterys and wonders of their mythologies, however the truth is they limit the understanding of their god by disabling thier fellow man to understand how the world works.

As Einstein said "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"

Answer 3

Zero says, "faith can not survive in the presence of reason..."

Zero: Yours can't, but mine can. You take your best logic and try to reason out how the universe first came into existence, and what prompted it to organize and what caused life to form. What you are left with is an explanation a little less solid than Swiss cheese. My faith can fill all those holes. And there will always be holes, as long as "science, reason, logic, and rational thought" refuse to entertain the possibility of a creator.

Your faith says everything happened by accident, and there was never a generating force; it just "happened," spontaneously, unprovoked... just "happened." On a grand, enormous scale that just happens to strike many learned minds with awe, by the way. Prove YOUR faith. Or else, why should I need to prove mine?

Answer 4

Why must science attack religion? Logic and rational thought are found in the Bible... even along with science. It talks about the water cycle and Earth being a sphere long before man came to those conclusions. However the Bible's purpose is not to be a science textbook.

Answer 5

Faith fills the holes of uncharted areas found in Science, Reason, Logic, and Rational Thought. Yes, it does validate elements in people's Faith only until that item in their Faith is unequivocally disproved by Science, Reason, Logic, and Rational Thought. At that point, the believers in Faith create new purposes to substantiate their religious beliefs.

Answer 6

These are entities meant to be kept separate, I study Medicine and practice Christianity, I must say that unless your looking to challenge your faith or what you believe in doing so is a good way to send yourself into thoughts boundless of ends, Religion for the Spirit Science 4 the Brain find balance = 1, and you'll have a greater understanding 4 Life

Answer 7

Fundamentalist religious followers attack what they perceives is a threat to their power base. If you look at the percentage of agnostic/atheists as education is increased, in particular, science education, you can see that there is something that they fear.

If we teach kids to understand and trust the scientific explanation of the world, faith is weakened because there is no scientific explanation for faith. And there can't be.

Most theists though have reconciled this because while faith has no scientific explanation, they can maintain it as a belief in something greater, while at the same time trusting the observations of science. This to me seems the healthy response. The fundamentalists that attack science are frightened of anything that challenges the almighty supremacy of their god, and see science the same way as they see other religions. An outside threat that prevents them from living truly in peace with their god.

Answer 8

I think faith trumps all logic no need to attack science it's there to fool you into some story about how it all works. But even science can't explain missing pieces and admits there is a certain element to life that can't be explained. When I look around at the earth and all the talent that inhabits her. I think this is no accident no way!

Answer 9

Because the whole theory behind religion is believing in something that defies all of those things. Religions believe there is a power greater than those on Earth. The only way to convince believers of this is to tell that a god does something above all rationality and knowledge.

As for faith validation, in a way it does. You have to have faith that there is something greater than what we know in order to be religious. Religions don't discourage followers to be intelligent, just to believe that there is something beyond. I know a lot of solid Christians and Jews who are very intelligent, scientific, thoughtful people. But you can merge many theories of the material world into that of the world beyond. It really has to do with the person, not the religion.

Answer 10

religion does not attack logic but some intolerant and closed minded religious leaders and their followers do. like those who are opposed to evolution being taught in school.

this type of behavior is most offensive, the rest of the population should not have information banned or kept from them just to satisfy the need of a religious group to impose their wills and values on the world's population

some religous leaders embrace logic and science and have synthesized their spiritual and objective thoughts, like the Dali Lama, I remember reading and hearing some lecture he gave supporting science and his belief that science and religion can coexist

Answer 11

Religion only refutes falsehoods.

Science, when true, is in complete harmony with true religion.

Those who have taken science to be the beginning and end of all truth might remember a few of the "truths" taught by scientists only a few years ago:

There is little or no possibility of life on any other planet.
The earth is on the brink of destruction because of over-population.
Expressing anger alleviates anger, causing it to disappear.
Children need to have loved ones avoid touching them, it causes them to become soft and unable to function in life.
At the speed of sound, people are unable to sustain life.
It is impossible to fly.
It is impossible to be heard further than a network of wires can carry sound.
A diagnosis of cancer is a death sentence.

These were believed by scientists to be absolutely true in the last century.

How many of today's deeply-cherished scientific ideas, rational and logical thoughts will seem as ridiculous to future generations?

Every religion has eternal, unchanging truths. So does science. Whenever they disagree, I prefer religion to science.