Is science man's way of uncovering God's miracles.?

Question

In my last question :
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I got an answer like this :

Just remember science is only man's way of uncovering and understanding God's miracles.


I thought, oh wow, I absolutely agree. As a deist, I believe that God was the big bang.

Where did all the technology that is used today to date and study ancient fossils and prehistoric remains come from? I think it was God that helps all our educators and researchers to find ways to explain the past. God started the evolutionary process, in my opinion. He helped us find ways to accurately date and explain the significance of these discoveries.

Genesis was written by MEN who had no way of knowing what science would later explain. Men who could not have comprehended the term as simple as water displacement.

Don't creationists see that this is from God:

"Evidence from bones
Scientists study ancient bones and fossils to investigate human origins and evolution. They compare the skeletons of ancient and modern humans from different parts of the world. Some think that human fossils from Asia show a smooth transformation from Homo erectus to modern humans. This suggests that modern humans gradually evolved from ancient humans - at least in Asia. But remains of modern-looking humans found in South Africa that date back to about 100,000 years ago suggest a recent African birthplace for Homo sapiens."


http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/genes/36.asp

Answer 1

I used to think that we couldn't rule out the idea of a god existing who set the universe going and then effectively walked away, leaving it to its own devices. The trouble with that hypothesis is that it explains the origin of the universe in terms of something far more amazing (an intelligent universe-creating entity) which itself would require a far bigger and more amazing explanation than the universe itself. If science tells us anything at all, it is that great complexity doesn't just exist from nothing - it has to grow, to evolve, to be made of distinct parts, to exist in an environment that is conducive to its existence. None of that fits with the idea of an uncreated god existing in nothing, from nothing, with no origin and no history and being made of nothing at all.

So, for all these reasons, I would have to answer 'No'.

Answer 2

The problem that you run into is in expecting the necessity of a God. The point of Science is to approach the study of things without presuppositions; the necessity of a god to somehow create things is one such.

This doesn't mean that god would necessarily discount a god if it found evidence of such, but until we come across something which directly indicates some force that cannot be explained by other theories or evidence, attributing things to a god is abandoning science.

What could be evidence of a god? If an amputee were prayed for, and the limb regrew on the spot; If a spinal injury were reparired immediately with prayer. In short, if we saw some evidence of divine intervention, we might have such evidence of a situation that required some sort of divine intervention.

To assume though, from the start, that a god is necessary for something to begin or to exist merely eliminates the necessity to study that which one believes a god to have created. It replaces the need to understand how or why with an idea that this is already known.

There may or may not be some god, but to assume that the beginning of all was created displaces the necessity to study it. It gives an artificial knowledge of how things might have come about that would be a barrier to a desire to study.

One needs to keep an open mind to conduct science. Presuppositions do not lead to truth.

Answer 3

Nelson Mandela a familiar name to you? Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi? To claim that the Bible is the only source of philanthropy is not only arrogant, but an insult to other philanthropists who've done a lot of good in the world only to not be acknowledged. We should take it as a positive sign that, in spite of all the evil things man is capable of, there are still people who want to, can, and will, do good in the world, whether they're Christian, atheist, Hindu, Muslim, or anything; we shouldn't be thanking God(s) for the kindness of people.

Answer 4

I firmly believe that science is man's way to disprove that God exsists. By using science and mathematics as a method of earthly accurracy they can show man's superiority.

They use the various stories of the Bible, Sodom & Gomorrah, Gen. 19:24; Moses and the entire story of the Exodus, from the "battle" with Pharaoh-- the plaques to the arrival to the promised land; Jonah and the Whale, even Jonah1:17; to prove that God could not does not exist!

All the time trying to put GOD into the 'shoes' of man! God created us into His spiritual image not into His physical image. God is a supernatual being! He is God! He can do anything He wants to do and man cannot possibly recreate any miracle that God creates in the same manner.

When man can create something from nothing .....?

As to the "big bang" any sound in abolute silence would be loud.

Answer 5

Science reveals facts based on evidence. If you want to introduce a supernatural deity into the equation go ahead but by doing so you would be ignoring the most basic scientific principle that there must be hard evidence to support your viewpoint.

Answer 6

Science is just one way that man has gotten in touch with the enormous complexities of a loving Creator. Science helps us understand how loving a Creator we have that put so much into place for life to exist on Earth.

I find it commical that man often uses science to try to debunk Christianity. All of the so called "pre-human" life forms have all been disproven. And all of this "evidence" found in the fossil record would fit into a modern day sized coffin. Not a lot of evidence to base entire fields of study on.

The bible says that in the end time man would puff himself up in his pride and the wisdom of man would become foolishness.

Answer 7

Buddhism is at peace with science...I just hate it when people from either camp make such a narrow 'religion' out of their viewpoints. Scientists that can't see the forest for the tree they are examining and religionists that want to take every little detail of their scripture as the final word.

Answer 8

No.

Science is the tool humanity uses to discover information about the world around themselves. It seeks naturalistic explanartions for natural phenomenoa. It has nothing to say on "miracles" because "miracles" are not testable, falisifable, or repeatable.

Answer 9

I love your viewpoint. I think scientists are often in awe... And so is anyone who open their eyes.

3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,

4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him? (Psalm 8)

Answer 10

Aaah, a candidate for the Theist Evolution camp. Now you using your brains.