Christians, do you understand that science does not have the sole purpose of disproving your faith?

Question

Science is science. It is not your enemy unless facts are your enemy. Things are either proven or disproven through testing. Science does not exist to "attack" your beliefs, science finds truth through facts and evidence.

Answer 1

Quite true. Science by definition only explores areas which are emiprical in nature. Religion, like philosophy, explores areas beyond the empirical. Science attempts to explain the "What?". Religion attempts to explain the "Why?". In all fairness, please keep in mind that the "facts" of science have changed over the years; that the facts of one period become the falsehoods of the next. Secondly, keep in mind that religion, because of its nature, must rely upon revelation of some sort to arrive at truth. Do not criticize the religious for citing God as the source of revelation. The task of the discerning individual is to filter out that which is nonsense from that which is wise. I have spent a lifetime doing that. I have arrived at Orthodox Christianity.

Answer 2

Sure, it's just that science hasn't turned it's attention to human relationship matters to the extent it has to things, like bombs, and to be sure food. When it shines a light on our relation to the universe it should come up with even better rules than religion and spirituality, as even those fields also are growing in undertanding forever. I didn't get that at first, Schneb, it's so poetic, condensed and yet practical. I guess some other didn't either. And Luci, we need reprogamming, isn't that obvious. Science says we have been since two or three years old. And men now manipulate science, so what is your proof beyond that and assertions, printninga? We are supposed to question God, life and everything else. That's what the scientific method does and why it's so valuable. that's the failing of religion, they think they know not that we are learning always learning, seeking, also the stated purpose of religion. Life like love is not a done deal it's something you do and learn more about everyday. You don't get married and sit on the couch now, but an are involved in an on going process like life.

Answer 3

(Hey Schneb - it's perfectly within your right to remain dumb. In fact, why don't you throw your computer away right now? After all, the internet wouldn't work without satellites, and satellites wouldn't exist if people never questioned god.)

As we all know, most theists use some sort of science in the pursuit of their everyday lives. This is a direct result of mankind questioning the existence of god.

Thousands of years ago when people looked up into the sky and couldn't rationalize stars, they attributed them to "gods." Over time, those gods became more and more powerful, actually holding sway of the fortunes and misfortunes of people. Religions emerged, and acted as the "mediators" between gods and humans, and subsequently became the most powerful entities on the planet.

Initially, people who questioned religion, who sought SCIENTIFIC explanations, were persecuted and shunned, but eventually the observations they made could not be denied. The earth WAS round. The sun WAS the center of the solar system. Thunder and Lightening WERE caused by electrical discharges, not angry deities.

What is more likely, that there were "chosen prophets" from hundreds of different cultures who all had the same exact divine favor, or that there were clever men from hundreds of different cultures who each learned the same tactics to manipulate their fellow men?

Science never set out to castrate religion. It just happened because religion was never HONEST to begin with. It was always a manipulative device, used to exploit people's fear of the unknown. This is why, universally, every single religion has had a small minority or a single individual who claims divine connection, and who eventually is exposed as a fraud through (you guessed it) science.

Answer 4

Do you understand that God does not have the sole purpose of destroying science?
God is God, He is not your enemy, unless love is your enemy. Things either exist or don't exist through His will. God does not exist to "attack" your beliefs, He doesn't worry a bit about your facts and evidence, because God is truth.

In other words, the conflict has nothing at all to do with God vs Science, does it? It has to do with arrogant theologians who think that they know it all, and that all truth rests ultimately with them...and equally arrogant scientists who are just as sure that they are the ones who actually know it all, and that all truth rests ultimately with them. Both sides make ridiculous claims and do everything that they can to udermine one another. I don't know how it ever got started, but it only makes both sides look foolish.
I am a Christian who also apreciates everything that science has given me. But then, I am old enough to remember when we said that little prayer in school every morning...a simple matter of three or four sentences...and still went to science class, where we learned, among other things...brace yourself, this may come as a shock...evolution.
How 'bout that?

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OH, and ya know what? We got through our school days without having to worry that some crazy kids with guns were gonna shoot up our schools.
Do you suppose that asking God's blessing on our days might have had something to do with that?
Well, I suppose you wouldn't know, would you...since you can't get God on a slide and put Him under a microscope, you have decided that He doesn't exist, and if He doesn't exist, of course, He can't bless anyone.
Circular logic, anyone?

Answer 5

If anything there are people like myself who feel that science proves their beliefs. I honestly don't see why the two have to contradict with one another. I like to think that God was the master mind behind it all and did so by way of Intelligent Design. Maybe God did it by way of the Big Bang and Evolution or some other way with Evolution. It is what it is to me. We're all here now and that's what matters at this point in time. Oh and one more thing I'm a Christian.

Answer 6

Sure... Science and my faith go well together... I've never viewed science as an enemy! I've enjoyed the study of science through the years.

Answer 7

I'm not afraid of science disproving my faith. Science only points me more towards God. Science must be used wisely by man, since science is incapable of making moral judgments. Science gives us the bomb. It is morality that tells us whether or not to use it. Science gives us the ability to keep a person alive long beyond the time they would have died a century ago. But it is morality, or conscience, that helps us determine if we want to do that or not. Science gives us the ability to make war...but the moral decisions are much more important. This is my issue with the atheist and his cry of "science! logic!" . Science exists in a cold, lifeless vacuum. Logic is an orphan without wisdom. You can't have one without the other. I'm not afraid of science. I'm afraid of science without morality.

Answer 8

Valid observations, even if it doesn't apply to all believers. A lot of it is group-think. When a person has a group-think mentality, you really can't say anything that's right for them. Everyone is either friened or foe, goodguy or badguy, in or out.

It's a lot like the comics. Batman (who is 100% good) goes after the Penguin (who is 100% bad). You can talk all day and the person's thinking will never develop beyond Popeye and the Road Runner.

Answer 9

Who ever said such a thing? Science proves Christianity. Now if you're telling me that Time + Matter + Chance = our existance then we have a problem don't we. Presenting Atheistic Evolution as fact when it is a theory is a bold thing since it can not be proven.

Answer 10

Science is not infallible or a god in its' own right.And there is a difference between historical and observational science.Plus,if some of you with faith in "scientism" would do the research on the origins of modern science, you'd be amazed at the purpose of it.