that science will be able to answer all our questions if we give our scientists enough time? Reason I ask, I like science a lot, but will be the first to admit that the latent outcome of scientific discovery is that every answer breeds multiple new questions, so essentially the more we learn, the more we find we have yet to discover.
2007-05-24 04:33:12 · 21 answers · asked by randyken 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We have too finite of a mind to ever understand it all....
That's where faith comes in that someday we may understand.
2007-05-24 04:35:52 · answer #1 · answered by G.C. 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, I don't think so. You are right that all discoveries breed new answers and I think that the world is too complex to be fully understood by the human mind. Some questions simply can't be answered because there is no way to know. For example we will never be able to know how life came into existance (I mean the first living organism). One day we might be able to make a theory that would explain how it could have happened, we might even be able to create a simple organism in the lab (however I think it's unlikely), but still we won't know if that's really how it happened or if it happened in an alternative way, because we can't go back and see and there are no remains of the first organisms so we simply can't know what they were actually like, we can only make assumptions. Same is the case for everything that happened in the past and did not leave remains that could be examined. Our knowledge of evolution can also never become complete as there aren't remains of all species that ever lived and while we can also reconstruct a lot by DNA sequence analysis this also doesn't answer all questions.
It should also be noted that not all our questions are scientific. Many philosophic, moral and religious questions will never be solved because there are no objective answers to them and people will always disagree.
I'm an atheist and PhD student of microbiology.
2007-05-24 05:27:32 · answer #2 · answered by Elly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's impossible to answer all our questions, it takes a long time for a team of scientists to make just one small break through.
Then again if we gave them a million years our answers may be answered, but we'd be long dead and our questions will have been forgotten. And yes new discoveries herald more questions, but thats the way it is.
Hypothetically say we found the answers to all our questions about earth, where we came from, how to live much much longer etc. we would still have the question of whats in space, we could build huge telescopes to see there, but there will always be billions of light years that we cant see. So we will always wonder that.
Christians will probably think that God does not want us to know all this, but whatever I am an atheist and we will never answer all our questions, Christians may believe all will be answered in heaven. so yeah that could happen too.
2007-05-24 04:39:48 · answer #3 · answered by Dom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love science it is so cool now, I also love Jesus. science is only explaining the marvelous universe He runs. What the math is saying is that you cant believe what you see even. That at its essence the whole of creation is best compared to a thought. That all the atoms and electrons we know are poping in and out of this dimention to another. Futher more with superpositioning everything is everywhere all the time. A bit of a mirror to the Holy Spirit that is evrywhere at all times knowing all. This life is a grand illusion and the science that tries to explain the wonder of it all is very cool.
2007-05-24 04:54:57 · answer #4 · answered by vksman 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Science will never answer all. Like you said the more we learn the more we find we have yet to discover.
2007-05-24 04:37:59 · answer #5 · answered by lostsoulstav 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps, but it makes more sense that just making up mythology to explain the world. If you know of a better way than through science, I'm sure humanity would love for you to share it.
Perhaps my dance and song will bring enlightenment!
2007-05-24 04:37:44 · answer #6 · answered by Geisha Christ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We will always be learning new things about this earth and the life on it. We have to remember, however, that we are not of this earth. We were created in God's image and left here to prepare ourselves for our eternal life with Him, by doing the good works that he has prepared for us to do, helping people in need, and telling all about His wonderous love.
2007-05-24 04:40:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mankind has only gotten their toes wet in the vast ocean of the universe....
But look back and you'll see all science has done, either good or evil, and you'll see the great number of questions that science has answered.
2007-05-24 04:37:10 · answer #8 · answered by Doomsday 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is true. I remember my physics teacher described your knowledge as a circle. and the more knowledge that you gain the larger the circle gets. But the outside of the circle represented what you didnt know. So when your knowledge increases there is more circumfrance revealing the amount of new information that you have became aware of, but have no knowledge about.
I think it is very accurate.
2007-05-24 04:41:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have no problem with that. Knowledge is good, the more the better. Is anyone really bothered by human curiosity and the wonders it uncovers?
2007-05-24 04:41:10 · answer #10 · answered by RealRachel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of our questions? That would mean we would be omnipotent, so technically no. But given enough time I think science can answer any question you want.
2007-05-24 04:36:46 · answer #11 · answered by tabby90 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋