RELIGION or SCIENCE?

Question

do you think religion is still relevant in todays world...when we have good scientific explanation for almost everything...i have always believed that religion is only the need of man to explain something "right now" beyond his understanding...just for time being until science finds an answer...u will have to agree that technology has saved more lives than prayers...as for the downside of technology...isnt the same seen in religion also...these multiple religion of world have divided more than they have unified...much of the terrorism has underlying :"religious" twisted thoughts...what say?

Answer 1

Let me quote a scientist to answer your question.

Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. For the rest of his credentials, click on the link here: http://www.genome.gov/10000980. Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/collins.html, in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

"I think there's a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

"Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it's rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, 'Faith is actually plausible.' You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone."

Answer 2

Science has been proven to be a worthwhile system of technological advancements for the quality of human life. Unlike religious fundamentalists, scientists don't claim to have all the answers to life. But many of life's answers come out through scientific studies. Could you imagine living in a world that religion has always gotten its way by stopping it? It would be like living in the Stone Age.

God bless Science.

Answer 3

"religion is still relevant in todays world" - religion is how we express our worship to God, and God is always relevant

"when we have good scientific explanation for almost everything" - since when?

"religion is only the need of man to explain something "right now" beyond his understanding" - no, it is how we choose to worship; again, you confuse religion with God.

"u will have to agree that technology has saved more lives than prayers" - no, I don't agree with that, technology has also killed more people than religion ever has. The atom bomb, gas chambers, the invention of weapons ... all of these things are part of technology.

Answer 4

I say that your question is kind of garbled. If religion is all we have to explain the unexplainable then what of it? It works for me for the time being, whatever floats your boat, just don't sink mine. Science is a form of revelation, and for me it only makes Creation all the more remarkable, and raises all the more questions. Technology has also cost more lives than prayers, I don't have to agree to anything. As for terroism, there are other things at work there, with religion being used as a means of control or power over others in some cases, it's a specialized situation that is more about war and power than religion, and innapropriate to lump it in a generalization about mankind's search for higher meaning in his life.

Answer 5

. Materialistic science is very limited in time and space and full of errors, i don't mean useless, but is making people think that science can save them, and that is not true. There are different branches of science, some are doing more harm than good, like for example the atomic weapons. In medicine, must of the time they know the right cure for the diseases, by don't provide it, because if they cure the patient, the business decrease, for the pharmacy, for doctors etc. they provide a harmful medicine.
Religion is mean for reestablish our lost relationship with God.
But in the Vedic literature you can find answer for everything scientific, material and spiritual.

Answer 6

There are many gaps in science. I think it is best to have an open mind. I have seen things for which there are no scientific answers.
Yes, I know religion seems outdated. But the world, according to science, is black or white. And sometimes, there are shades which science just won't accept.

Answer 7

However much believers in unproven invisible beings say they understand science, they simply do not. Their increasingly freaky beliefs are incompatible with real science.

The opening of the 'creation museum' should be a prime example. It has made the USA even more of a laughing stock to the rest of the world, they are beyond embarrassing.

Answer 8

I wouldn't say that religion is the 'need' of man to explain something beyond his understanding. It's more of a compulsion than a need. Using god as an explanation for the unknown serves no useful purpose, and indeed it slows scientific discovery since a large section of the population is content to stop looking for the real answers.
Other than that fairly trivial distinction, I agree completely.

Answer 9

Science all the way!!!
Religion has no place in the technological and scientific world of the 21st century.
Why fill the gaps with God when you can get up and go look for the answers?
Technology, and science, in the hands of religious people ALWAYS ends up distoreted and unhealthy and dangerous for the psychological and fisical integrity(spell.?) of the individual.

Answer 10

I say you're gonna upset alot of religious folk with this question. I don't really think of the two as substitutes for one another. To me religion has to do with spiritual matters, and science has to do with explaining the natural world. Why do we have to decide between the two? Unless of course we have to de-program all those poor kids who've visited the Creation Museum, and are now totally confused.

Answer 11

I don't devote my life to either. Personally, I just live my life. Religion was used to explain the unknown many years ago. The Aztecs had many different gods to explain the universe and how it worked, and they were no more delusional than Christians are today. I certainly hope the need to fill that 'void' that some people have dissapates, because religion causes quite a bit of problems.