Why do I feel like science is trying to prove my beliefs wrong?

Question

its hard not to beleive science and it feels like im losing my faith??? help plz

hmmmmm.. kinda confusing but i guess it could work

the Big Band theory is one of the biggest effects f.y.i.

im not atheist

Answer 1

Jesus said that faith wouldn't be easy because of temptation. Keep strong and faithful to God and He will see to it that you are kept in the path of righteousness.

Answer 2

Religion is the antitheses of science and vice versa. As a very spiritual and quasi-religious person, I feel that science is just proving that the Divine is big on a singular design. The universe, the solar system, and atoms are all built the same.
If you are looking to have your faith bolstered, look to archeology, and understand that the historical record can prove times and places but not always events. If you are one of the good folks who feel that the mans death was more important than his life or his teachings, stop paying attention to science. If you are a person who understands that there were many years between the action and the writing of the book and that even evolution can be divinely inspired, then keep your god in your heart and let Him revel Himself to you in His own way.

I am not a Christian, and don't pretend to be. However I am a person who can the touch of the gods in all things. The Bible says that God made everything from scratch, all creation stories say the same thing. So why not everything we are discovering now and in the future? Why not make our little lives interesting?

Answer 3

Science seeks to prove nothing wrong, only to see why what happens happens. Science is neutral, without religion. You are losing your faith because there is something that you are not facing. Evolution does not disprove Creation. Not even the Big Bang theory disproves Creation, only a literal interpretation of it. If you are not Christian, then I REALLY don't know how science could be disproving your beliefs. Sit down, think. Ask yourself what you believe is the nature of the universe, ask yourself what you feel is the nature of life. Losing your faith does not mean you can't get it back, it may just be the beginning of a maturing/change of your beliefs. Life is constantly moving, it isn't static, don't assume that because you are feeling one way now that you will always feel this way. Relax, read, think, question and face growth with grace and you will find wisdom.

Answer 4

I think you are more of an agnostic than a theist. So what is the scientific discovery that is making you lose faith? Albert Einstein found God through the wisdom of science.

100 years ago this year, Albert Einstein published three papers that rocked the world. These papers proved the existence of the atom, introduced the theory of relativity, and described quantum mechanics.

Pretty good debut for a 26-year-old scientist, huh?

His equations for relativity indicated that the universe was expanding. This bothered him, because if it was expanding, it must have had a beginning and a beginner. Since neither of these appealed to him, Einstein introduced a 'fudge factor' that ensured a 'steady state' universe, one that had no beginning or end.

But in 1929, Edwin Hubble showed that the furthest galaxies were fleeing away from each other, just as the Big Bang model predicted. So in 1931, Einstein embraced what would later be known as the Big Bang theory, saying, "This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened." He referred to the 'fudge factor' to achieve a steady-state universe as the biggest blunder of his career.

Einstein's theories have been thoroughly proved and verified by experiments and measurements, but there's an even more important implication of Einstein's discovery. Not only does the universe have a beginning, but also time itself, our own dimension of cause and effect, began with the Big Bang.

That's right -- time itself does not exist before then. The very line of time begins with that creation event. Matter, energy, time and space were created in an instant by intelligence outside of space and time.

About this intelligence, Albert Einstein wrote in his book "The World As I See It" that the harmony of natural law "Reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

He went on to write, "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe--a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble."

Pretty significant statement, wouldn't you say?

Peace and blessings!

Answer 5

You feel like that because many scientists are.

Here are a few scientific premises for faith:

Design. It would never occur to you to believe that something as complex as, let's say, a Porsche, materialized spontaneously. You would assume, rightly, that some very smart, talented people designed it. That skilled laborers assembled it. That someone very carefully applied the excellent paint job. So how is it possible that the universe (infinitely more complex than even a really pimped out Porsche) materialized spontaneously? If there is an intricate design, it suggests a designer. At least.

Cause-effect. Simple. Without cause, there's no effect. The Porsche only moves if you've started it. The engine starts because there's gas in the tank. There's gas in the tank because an oil refinery produced it. The oil refinery produced it because it purchased the oil from an oil drilling company... etc. If all of this stuff hadn't happened, your car would never move. So what is the cause that set the universe in motion? There had to be a root cause, a root thing that started it all. Big Bang? Fine. What caused that? What caused the matter to exist in the first place? Isn't it amazing that with this ponderous question, atheists think they've thrown you a real zinger when they say, "So where did God come from?" If there's no God, where did ANYTHING come from?

Entropy. Things do not tend naturally to get better, more organized, etc. If you don't maintain your Porsche, it will get a rusty undercarriage, a dull finish, and start running poorly. It won't be better for the neglect. It's part of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Energy decreases. Things get colder, not hotter. Order flows to chaos, not the other way around. So if there is or ever was order, it was established by SOMETHING, outside of "natural law." Did you know that, much to astronomists' surprise, they've found in the last several years that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, not slowing down? This flies in the face of what they know about thermodynamics. And how can the complexity of life have ever arisen from inorganic materials spontaneously, much less transitioned over time from mere proteins into complex plants and animals? What organized the very first strand of DNA? Chance? What gave rise to the billions of organisms that have inhabited the planet in relative symbiosis? (The effects of pollution and excess of the Industrial Age notwithstanding.) It defies the laws of nature.

Brett: One just for you:
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein

Answer 6

Science is actually proving more and more that God in fact does exist. I don't know what your beliefs are though... But as far as "creationism" in general and specifically Christianity, science is quite the contrary disapproving creationism, but rather is increasingly continually approving it.

Think about it... let's try to examine if God exists from say- an atheists point of view, how would everything emerging into existence be any more plausable than God creating everything. Really, right there, God's existence is just so much more likely than a "big bang". Even if there was a "big bang" something would have had to created it. Ultimately, even from an atheists viewpoint, creationism is more "logical" than a "big bang".

God tests our faith also, and great things come from trials that God gives us. All things ultimately work for good. Just pray, pray and talk to God about it. Maybe just doing that in itself to get you to converse personally with God is the reason for the test, hm? See... God works in mysterious ways. Just trust him.

Answer 7

You shouldn't feel threatened by science. There are plenty of scientists who have no problem with their work in science and their faith. The only problem is when you try to take things like people being created out of clay and ribs, or plants being created before the sun, as "science" or as being equally plausible. Galileo, who proposed that the earth revolved around the sun when religion at the time was claiming the opposite, said "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Science and religion are just two different tools man has created to answer certain questions. But they're each meant to answer completely different types of questions. Science is made to answer questions of an OBJECTIVE nature, through repeatable experiments. Religion is made to answer questions of a SUBJECTIVE nature, through personal experiences that are often unrepeatable. You can have both, just recognize each one for what it is.

Answer 8

What you find from science shouldn't rock your faith and beliefs, in fact, it should serve to strengthen your faith... When science proves a religious theory wrong, it doesn't mean it is absolute either... Science evolves as humanity evolves as well...

Scientists of the past thought Electro shocks can cure psychosis of all kinds... they were wrong BUT instead of admitting defeat, Scientists began to refine what they have found to better serve humanity.

If you read something that challenges your believe... instead of caving in... find out more, investigate, contemplate on your holy text and view what you read with LOGIC blended with FAITH... the two don't always have to be opponents... and remember that the essence of whatever religion you belief in is not based on human mistakes like translation, printing etc. its the bond between you and your divine one.

Find your answer within, if we look out... all we will find are flaws and mistakes due to the limitation of our understanding, the world runs as it runs... our world runs limited to our wisdom and comprehension of it.

Answer 9

Google jordan maxwell astrotheology you will discover him very interesting....question regardless of the indisputable fact that, if we developed from monkeys/apes how come there are nevertheless monkeys/apes as we talk?? and does that recommend that dogs would have developed from cats or vice versa, and the place did all of them evolve from, one element approximately technological information greater questions than solutions. And yet another element the great bang what makes human beings think of god wasn't there, I recommend the courting between the earth, the solar and the moon is to calculated to be an accident even the scientists ask your self approximately that or if god had a proto sort for people like monkeys/apes.

Answer 10

Religion thrives on ignorance.
Fundies have always been against science. In modern civilized countries with an efficient public school system religious superstition is quietly fading away as the education level of the population is going up.

Answer 11

As knowledge nullify to historical facts of old "holy books"--it shouldn't affect those seeking the light--that is an eternal inner search that nullifies the ego--nothing at all to do with history or science.