Science encouraging a belief in God?

Question

I have noticed that the more I learn in the science field the more amazed I am that it all happened due to a "big bang" or other wild coincidence. Everything in nature is so symmetrical and balanced and circular. It seems to have been planned very carefully, in a huge intricate plan. For instance the human genome has taken decades to map. This does nothing to disprove God as far as I'm concerned; instead, the complexity and absolutes in science tend to convince me that a supreme creator must exist. What are your thoughts??

Answer 1

I think your question is clear and concise and well thought out. And I agree with you.

Answer 2

Why do religious people not realize that the "Big Bang" is not the only possible explanation? Or that the "Big Bang" is a hypothesis, not a law or Theory?"

Yall focus on the word "theory" so much for Evolution as though its some great big degrading thing, and yet you don't know the "Big Bang" is a hypothesis.

Is your education really that lacking that you would ever dare to try to debunk something you don't understand?

You may be studying more about science but you obviously don't understand it or you'd know better than the statement you just made.

The "Big Bang" is only ONE of a MANY possible explanations. There are a few pieces of evidence (this hypothesis has the most evidence in comparison to the others) to support it but it is by no means considered fact.

You are resorting to the "straw man" arguments that the rest of the religious use because you don't understand what it is that you're arguing.

Complexity is not proof of any god, its only proof of complexity.

You need to go back and study some more. Preferably in a College or University where they can give you proper reasoning for things.

Answer 3

Science is objective, neither encourages, nor discourages beliefs. Science researches and objectively reports findings.

Findings on DNA is in complete discrepancy with the Genesis or Creation ideas of many religions. Why?
Because 3 biggest religions say God has created the world in few (depend on religion) days with all its content. This means there was no change in time. We are living together with all other living things for 3.5 billion years.
Of course if religions had any single idea about let say about dinosaurs they would propose another creation scenario. As these scenarios created more than 2000 years ago, they had no idea about nature and evolution. They thought it is created as it is.
But science now finds that changes in DNA (mutations) are part of nature and regular. All animals and life is in continuous evolution. There are many species lived millions years ago now extinct. And there are now some species where they never lived millions years ago. They can easily track the history of species from their genes. Findings are in full accordance with Archaeological fossils. They found that human was not exists few millions years back. Horse was not exists 50 millions years ago. Etc. But dinosaurs who lived 65 million years ago also extinct.
This is complete reverse of what religions says about creation and God.

Answer 4

The analogy that the mustard seed is larger then the Universe of God points to Quantum Physics. There are many many facets of science that support God, in the sense of the unknown or assumed, but I think science has universally proved the dangers and hypocrisy of religion. Science has proven repeatedly how religions are based entirely on Astrological reseach, myth, and predictions. Man seeks control or influence, not god. So in a sense God is science.The quest for knowledge is not instictual is it? Where does the drive for knowledge come from? What drives a scientist to answer the questions of the universe? Man's unanswered questions keep us looking, searching and researching for the ultimate truth of God.

Answer 5

The Big Bang sounds very magical if you ask me, in a perfect world for atheists, everything would have happened extremely slowly and so gradual any sudden event is very odd in the "slowly-evolving" universe. Also the fact that when homo sapiens appeared, they seemed to have a spark just go off in their mind (the Big Bang of evolution) in which out of the blue an interest in spirituality, art, and higher learning developed.

No science does not disprove God, nor can it be used to prove Him, A god which could be found by human technology and explained by earthly science would not be the same God that is found in the Bible, Torah, and Koran

Answer 6

Wow. I have to say you have things completely backwards. "to disprove God"? When has God been proven? The genome also fails to disprove fairies. It fails to disprove any and all unproven entities. God is something to be proven. You're presupposing, and then looking for support. Consider Bertrand Russell's now famous 'Russell's Teapot' analogy.

I must question what you refer to when you refer to what you've learned in the science field. The first answer to this question was perfect, you must read "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins. No offense, but I don't think you really understand what you're saying.

Links below to...
- Russell's Teapot on wikipedia
- The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins @ Amazon.com

Answer 7

You know.. for someone who is "thinking about atheism", you sure do seem to ask a lot of very pointed questions. Not to drag up ancient history, but it started with Pascal's Wager, then onto intelligent design.... and later a plea for atheists to "convince" you... I feel like a marionette. Oh well, here we go :)

If things had gone wrong billions of years ago, we would not be here having this discussion. But they didn't, at least not for us, and how fortunate we were. The beauty, and precision of the universe exists because it is here, because things went right.

Does it always go right?

I bet the life that tried to get started on Mercury is pretty pi**ed that they ended up so close to the sun. Sucks for them, doesn't it? Sucks for a lot of planets that ended up too far, or too close, or are made of such noxious stuff. We just happened to get lucky. The right conditions fell into place. Had they not, we would not be here, just like those poor little guys on the planet Mercury.

None of that proves an intelligent creator. At least not to me.

Answer 8

I think you have taken a very wise approach. I look at the Bible as a book of science in the sense that the ancients were trying to explain why things happen, just as scientists do. In fact, science grew out of religion. More amazingly still, Charles Darwin undertook his voyage to prove the Bible and as a Christian he never lost faith or questioned the divinity of Christ, his book "Evolution of the Species" was never intended to do anything but prove the existence of God and show how species evolved once they had come into existence. The magnificence of the universe, its incredible vastness from the very large to the infinitely small, is a far greater creation than the modest little universe known to the writers of the Bible. It was a nice try but it fell way short of reality.

Answer 9

Carefully planned? Come on.

Galaxies are crashing into each other. DNA replication
replication mistakes cause terrible disfigurement.

And, the never answered question, who created the creator?

Look at it critically and you may change your mind. Besides,
if you are talking about Christianity, there are many, many
other religious beliefs that provide answers to the same
questions, but the answers are different. Which is right?

None of them are verifiable, all need a willingness of a
believer to turn off their critical thinking and accept, on faith,
certain "Miracles".

Answer 10

i might heavily prefer to appreciate how the devil ought to coach there is not any God. If there is not any God then there confident as hell isn't a devil, only as there does not be a hell to make particular approximately. who's to assert how God does something besides. possibly evolution is genuine and that's how God made the universe. possibly God created the universe with the huge Bang, I imply who's to assert God lacks type. the way it somewhat is defined in the bible must be very figurative and does not supply an entire photograph. with the aid of the way, i think of Temptation to sin is the devils ultimate weapon. it somewhat is a great deal helped with the aid of loss of religion.

Answer 11

Interesting question. Science has made a major contribution to our entire world in many areas of life especially medicine and technology. Science has failed us in its crusade to discredit faith in God. These subtle attacks against religion have done more to hurt science than anything else. The Scientists would do well to stay in their lane rather than try to discredit faith in God.It would be so much better if science and religion worked together rather than against each other.