Is science the devils best way to overthrow the belief of God?

Question

If you ask most people what they think the devil looks like, they'd probably insist it looks very similar to the 2 horned, grotesque, hollywood variety. I think the devil is much too smart for that. His biggest oppostion, obviously, is our faith in the belief of God. Don't you think that the logical approach of science would be his best weapon against faith. Think about it. In Christianity we are to believe that we were born from the image of God, science says we evolved from monkeys. God created life and the universe, science says the Big Bang and nebula clouds, atoms and fusion... Religion is based on faith in the unbelieveable, yet slowly, throughout the course of christianity, the church has accepted science's "proven" facts. Isnt that ironic? Can't you see the pattern? Science is based on facts and proof. But who's to say that that nobel prize scientist who will someday prove that there is no afterlife, no God, is really just the devil in disguise?

Wow thats a lot of answers in a short time. Id like to get some things cleared. First, I didnt say I disliked or am even against science. Im just saying that science would be the most viable form of attack for the devil. It has evolved slowly and has evolved in a way that has only helped our quality of life. That being said, we almost cant fathom that it would be something evil. It just makes so much sense that the devil could use it greatly towards his fight against God. Just like how he impersonated a serpent to tempt Eve in the garden, is it so hard to see how he could use science as a means to tempt us away from our faith?

Answer 1

No, I think the Devil's greatest weapon is probably convincing everyone that somehow the Universe doesn't stand as a self-obvious testament to the will of God.

If the Bible has even a shred of truth to it, then only God could have created the Universe, and since by definition the Universe would have to work in accordance with God's will, then anything you can prove scientifically to be the way the Universe naturally runs must also be God's will.

Anyone who tells you that what a book says about something is somehow superior to the truth of the thing itself wants you to forget that, and choose to forsake the truth of God's creation in order to embrace only what they desire for you to embrace as true.

Considering that, and considering that it would be well within the power of Satan to convince men to create a book whose explanations of the working of the Universe were not truthful to its actual workings, and whose explanations encouraged people to set themselves against one another, attack one another, divide themselves and shun one another and spend time quibbling and quarreling...

I would say the Devil's most powerful weapon would be to create such a book, DISGUISE it as righteousness, and use it to distract people from the truth of the creation they see all around them (since he lacks the power to change Creation itself) and pull them farther away from the truth of things, and therefore pull people away from God himself.

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Edit: Well, first, science hasn't been used to only make our lives better (nuclear bomb, anyone?), and quite a few people don't trust anything it has to say. If it was a universally good thing that everyone loved, I don't think we'd be having all the arguments over evolution, the age of the world, how the Universe was created, etc. So just from that standpoint it wouldn't be a very good tool to use because quite a few people out there, especially fundamentally religious people, reject what science has to say because it doesn't follow their convictions.

The other problem with using science as a tool of deception is that science is a self-doubting discipline. The scientific method was developed specifically in response to people trying to do what you suggest (essentially to use specious reasoning to trick other people into believing their lies), so its first and prime assumption is that whoever is using it is wrong.

It's called the null hypothesis, which basically says "what I want to investigate doesn't work the way I think it does", and it's left up to the researcher to specifically prove the null hypothesis wrong through very specific means.

Can they be manipulated to decieve people? Yes, in the short term they can. However, another principle of the scientific method is that findings aren't valid, even if you do happen to prove the null hypothesis about what you're studying isn't true, until they can be replicated by outside sources.

In order for the Devil (should he even exist) to use science to deceive man, he would have to manipulate the entire world so that everyone who ever tried to study the subject lied about it... and at that point, mankind is pretty much lost anyway, isn't it?

All it would take is one person who didn't follow his commands, and it would be proven the other research was a lie. Scientists are a very skeptical bunch about research, and are constantly poking and prodding each other's work, arguing with one another about methodology, the validity of findings, generalizability of findings, etc, etc, etc.

It takes a great deal of replicated research and evidence to get them to agree on anything and turn it into an accepted finding, and I doubt that could be done with an intentional attempt to deceive people.

That's not to say people haven't tried to use science to those ends. Look at Dr. Hwang Woo-suk. He's the South Korean researcher claiming to have had all sorts of success with the cloning process that other people weren't having. It took a couple of years for him to get caught because other people had to work through his experiments on their own and replicate his results, but the attempts were made, the results did not turn out, and more and more attention began to be focused on just what it was he was actually doing, until finally it was discovered he was faking his results.

Same thing for cold fusion. Remember all the controversy over cold fusion as Fleischmann and Pons announced they had achieved it? Sure, at first they were heroes, because what a breakthrough! An unlimited amount of energy that could be produced with a tiny little aparatus sitting on a table-top? Why, there would be no more need for oil or coal. No more need for dangerous nuclear power plants, or building large hydroelectric dams. We'd have an endless supply of cheap, clean power forever!

Until, that is, people started performing their experiment and not consistently getting the results they claimed to get. It didn't take long before the two of them were literally laughed out of the scientific community as frauds because they couldn't meet the burden of proof to justify their claims.

So no, science wouldn't really be a good tool to use to deceive people when it comes to religious matters. If it's provable God doesn't exist, then chances are, God doesn't exist, but at this point, the best science can really say is we have no proof one way or the other, and as any good scientist would tell you, absence of proof is NOT proof of absence.

Answer 2

I would seriously like to know how the devil could prove there's no God. If there's no God then there sure as hell isn't a devil, just as there wouldn't be a hell to be sure about.

Who is to say how God does anything anyway. Maybe evolution is real and that's how God made the universe.

Maybe God created the universe with the Big Bang, I mean who is to say God lacks style. The way it is described in the bible could be very figurative and doesn't give a complete picture.

By the way, I think Temptation to sin is the devils best weapon. It is greatly helped by lack of faith.

Answer 3

Science uses multiple techniques and many repetitions of experiments to ensure the accuracy of the results. The scientific community would scoff at the claims of one scientist, noble-prize-winning or otherwise, if they could not verify his results with their own experiments. Therefore, you must assume that nearly all scientists or educated persons for that matter are the devil.

Science is the best humanity can do. Perhaps a more important question would be: is the Bible the best God can do to persuade us?

Answer 4

That's weird. I was under the impression that Walmart was the antichrist.

But seriously, there will never be definitive proof of an afterlife, nor will there ever be a complete proof that it doesn't exist. Well, short of dying, that is.

And don't forget, science has proved a lot of the Bible's contents have really happened.

Answer 5

Yeah, but you can also use science for proof of God's existence, ie The Flood. There are many great uses of science, such as finding cures for illness and disease. Science can also give man an ego, thinking science is the "cure all" solution to why we exist and cope. So to answer your question, yes, I believe Satan uses science as a tool to dissuade people from the truth, but I also think there are many benefits to it as well. Evolution hasn't been proved by science, and neither has creationism, but there are many laws that have been proven, IE gravitational pull etc. God gave us science to understand him better. After we break down different chemicals and their property's, it just strengthens my faith even more, and makes it even harder to believe this all happened by chance.

Answer 6

Science is not the enemy of God ... God created the world and that means that the laws of science obey Him. Scientists may or may not have agendas to discredit God, but hard facts and proofs are not contradictory to faith in God - they lead to an understanding of Him in the end.

Answer 7

i think some science,(big bang) is mans way of explaining GOD, we just dont acknowledge it. when they say the big bang created the universe, how do we know that wasnt GOD mixing and matching things? i think science is proof of GOD working. the devil has taken that understanding and twisted it so that we exclude GOD. look at religion. the devil uses that to separate us. christian against muslim, etc. thats his job. the great deciever. lieing is an act of the beast. if he can get us to focus on ourselves and take GOD out of the equation then he has won.

Answer 8

It was God who planned science in the first place. Satan was created a good angel who then turned bad. He, satan had nothing to do with setting up science.
Even he knows things on the earth must comply with gravity. This is proved when Satan was tempting Jesus, and mentioned about jesus throwing himself off a tall building and having God's angels save him.
Jesus refused, not wanting to put Jehovah, his Father in heaven, to the test.


X-Theist...It was God who gave Dr. Salk the intelligence to find a cure.

Answer 9

All science has ever proven about god is that he didn't have to stick his finger in the pie every five minutes as natural processes explaine how things happen.
If the devil wants to disprove god he needs to do better.
Except in the case of fundies who think if a word is wrong in the bible it undercuts god completly. But since they think him rather pathetic to begin with, what does it matter?

Answer 10

I suggest you move into a cave and live there for a year without any of the things science has given you and see how that works out for you. The Lord will provide, right?

Answer 11

Do you really believe there's a devil who is manipulating science or did you just fail Biology 101?