Who gets offended more?

Question

religion, when presented with scientific proof, thus eliminating religion from Spirituality;

or

science, when religious believers say: Prove your theories???

Answer 1

I would guess religious people are most offended by scientific proof.... they believe, "god said it, I believe it, and that is enough for me" .... except they do have some doubts, and that scares the socks off of many of them... Scientists don't much bother with religion,,, one is as good as another, all are faith based, and all rather silly. But most scientists figure if it comforts you, fine... as long as you keep it out of my face, my government, my bedroom and my doctor's office.

Answer 2

I think science, when religious believers ask them to prove their theories. The reason I say this is because (speaking as a religious believer) we are used to people trying to devalue our faith. We are used to people trying to use any means to show us that the Bible and what we believe is wrong, that it couldn't be true. God even warned us that we would suffer persecution for our faith. In terms of Christianity and religious beliefs we have to take a lot on "faith". I mean many of the stories in the Bible are pretty incredulous and unbelievable. How often do seas part and people come back from the dead? In our faith, we rely on the fact that these things could not have happened without God. A lot of people try to explain these things away by using science and things we know, because taking something on faith alone is hard, it's much easier to look at cold hard facts.

I think the reason scientific people get more easily offended is because what we are saying flies in the face of all their logic, it makes them have to think outside of the box, and they don't like that.

Answer 3

I think that religion gets more offended. Usually when scientific proof is presented in arguments about religion, belief & faith become the main argument, followed by scriptural references (which are the very things being questioned), and some even follow with rude, or emotional outburts of faith, and burn in hell.

When science has been mandated with the burden of proof...the proof is provided & still is refuted with scriptural references, & religious beliefs.

It's hard to debate religion with a person who has such unmoving faith in religion. They will always resort to religion to back up religion...and what's the point of that.

Answer 4

The following is *my* opinion based on *my own personal observations*.

I think a lot of the offenses are similar on both sides, because they all come from one fundamental offense:

*They do not take the other side seriously.* Because of that, adherents of both religion and science tend to attack the other side without really knowing where the other side is coming from, or sometimes even where their *own* side is coming from!
This leads to offense on both sides, because it leads each side to see the other as childish, ignorant, hypocritical, etc.

Scientists spend a great deal of time and effort *proving* everything they say to an absurd degree, but instead of making the effort to understand that proof, religion dismisses it outright, and eventually forgets that it even exists, leading to a vicious cycle of "Prove it" "I already did" "I didn't take the time and effort to understand it, so to me, you still haven't proved it".

The situation is reversed on the other side. Scientists don't take religion seriously, and therefore continue to ask stupid questions like "If god exists, why do bad things happen?", that have already been answered.

By not taking their opponents seriously, each side does damage to it's own cause by constantly offending people with each foolish or ignorant attack they make.

The following are two pages that I found very interesting. They are both written by someone on the "science" side of the debate, but I think they both do a very good job of summing up the problems that end up causing so much offense on both sides.

Why Intellectuals Don't Take Religious Believers Seriously:
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/WhyIntNoRB.HTM

Why Religious Believers Don't Take Intellectuals Seriously
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/WhyRBNoInt.HTM

Answer 5

Both get offended. Religion is based on Faith and if someone doesn't have faith in themselves they need faith in something. Science is based on facts and if you can't prove those facts it is just a Theory and a Theory is just that...

Answer 6

Religion, I guess... But only if science says they got proves, I didn't hear anything about science getting offended...

Answer 7

I dont get offended when religious people say "prove your theories" I get annoyed because they know they can't prove theirs

Answer 8

Why do both contradict the other in your mind? I believe science has served to validate several aspects of Christianity. You haven't given us an example of where it disproves any element of Christianity.

Answer 9

Religion gets offended by people like you.

Answer 10

What? Has scientific proof eliminated religion from spirituality? Darn, I missed it. O well. I dunno, I'm not offended, but that's just me.