Should everyone be required to spend at least half the time in the Science section as they spend in Religion?

Question

and Spirituality? I'm not just talking about Christians, we could all benefit.

I'm not saying we should literally be required.

Answer 1

It wouldnt hurt to hear another persons point of view and interpret what you decide to believe from either side. Sort of how philosophers study and then deside what they want to believe from what they hear. So yeah, it could change a lot of peoples perspectives.

Answer 2

My theory is that science is the way to find out if anybody's religion or spiritual beliefs or ideas are true or false. Blind faith and sheeple will get you nowhere. But that's just my theory. Have a nice day.

Answer 3

What ever happened to the separation of church and state. Doing something like that would go against the constitution. Also, science is based on fact and religion isn't. It would be like asking whether schools should teach that Abraham Lincoln existed and then teaching that Santa Claus exists, that is just foolish, end of story.

Answer 4

Why? Do you think it would change my convictions of my faith? Unlike many on here, I was deemed a "genius" at an early age, especially in Science and Math with an IQ of 156 at the age of 14. "That" was before I got "educated." Science can only summize "discoveries" and "assume" the "logic" of those artfacts or "theories" they make presumptions upon. Science and Faith when it come to the past can only go by the FACTS, and NOBODY truly KNOWS that which is PRESUMED as TRUE, one way or the other. When science says what it presumes to be truth, much of that lays in "theory" while much of what lays in "faith" is ALSO in theory, but some of those THEORY do have FACT and it is what contributes to any persons convictions, just as it does MINE. I go by all FACTS of the ancient "Egyptians" for they had high reverance to LIFE, and all things "living." No other religion SINCE "has" held these principles. Not all of us are "stupid" when it come to our choice to serve the Lord in heaven and no SCIENCE can prove to me he doesn't EXIST.........

Answer 5

That will not work for I can make up a thousand new religions that all make more sense than the last and many many more after that. One word!: Weallcannotbenifitfromschools teachingreligionandscienceperiod!.

Answer 6

I respect the idea behind your suggestion...

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.
— Katha Pollitt

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, it is a matter of faith, and above reason.
— John Locke (1632-1704)

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.
— Henry Morris, Head of Institute for Creation

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
— John Burroughs

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
— Catherine Fahringer

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
— Judith Hayes

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
— Chapman Cohen

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.
— George Santayana (1863-1952)

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion; rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
— Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
— William Ralph Inge

Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that. We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
— Richard Dawkins

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
— Edward Abbey

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
— Karl Marx

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.
— Hippocrates; (ca. 460-377 B.C.E.)

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.
— Hans Zinsser

Two recent surveys rate the United States at the top among Western nations in belief in God and at the bottom among six major countries in school kids' understanding of science and math. This could be dismissed as chance, but it shouldn't be. While our economic competitors' schools are teaching students advanced math and science, many of our schools are wasting energy debating whether to teach evolution or creationism, which maintains that God created the universe over a six-day period about 6,000 years ago.
— Bill Mandel

Scientific education and religious education are incompatible. The clergy have ceased to interfere with education at the advanced state, with which I am directly concerned, but they have still got control of that of children. This means that the children have to learn about Adam and Noah instead of about Evolution; about David who killed Goliath, instead of Koch who killed cholera; about Christ's ascent into heaven instead of Montgolfier's and Wright's. Worse than that, they are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.
— J.B.S. Haldane

Answer 7

I would like to combine the value of faith and all it brings with the wisdom humanity has only begun to discover. Both are worthy of study.

Answer 8

I have almost 30 credit hour in college science courses so far...is that enough?

Answer 9

I would say yes, except that many parents and children would complain saying it was "against their religion". It's a good idea but had too many draw-backs for it to be used unfortunately. =/

Answer 10

Most people aren't interested in Science. Ask someone to name anyone that's ever won a Nobel Peace Award. You probably won't be able to find anyone....