Can science and religion coexist?

Question

Galielo seemed to think they could. What do you think?

Great Gazboo, I'm not talking just about christianity. I find the bible to be flawed in ways that cannot be fully listed here, mostly because it is man-made. But that's just one of my pet peeves. I'm more interested in knowing whether you think religion and science in general can coexist or if they cancel each other out?

Answer 1

ask a believer next time he/she falls ill

Answer 2

I certainly think they do. God created all things in the beginning and that included all the scientific methodologies that makes everything work correctly.

Man studies science to learn about what God has already created! Man just hasn't found out how God did it yet. In a science experiment, the researcher may go through 100+ more tries to get to the final outcome of his project. Then another researcher comes along and works on the same project trying to find more data and information than the last researcher found. So, researchers are always posting the information they feel is correct at the time. That is why there are so many "new ideas" written about the same research project.

God only allows man to uncover new truths that He wants man to know. And man still thinks he's smarter than God! lol lol lol

Answer 3

Science is based on logic. Although people have tried to put "theories" (assumptions) such as evolution under its wing as well. But there is no fact founded in assumption. Therefore theories cannot be considered rational explanations. Since science must be based on fact. Anything else would be contradictory to the very basis of scientific principle.

Christianity is wisdom. Thus cannot be evaluated unless experienced. Or perceived under a microscope. When science explains that which can be examined by scientific evaluation it fairs well. And only then. Science cannot rationalize that which exponentially trumps its own rationallity. Science has tried to do this in light of the religious experience. But only in affirmation to the possibility of a superior creative intelligence.

But out of arrogance some scientists cannot or will not simply accept that with the tools available, man cannot fully understand that which is beyond his level of sophistication. He can't encapsulate God. Inferior principles CANNOT stipulate or expound upon superior ones. So to appease himself he has replaced his insecurity with assumptions (theories). Conclusive "evidence" to satisfy his curiosity for the time being. And a fervent scrutinizing of faith based teachings in an attempt to gain leverage.

Either way you choose to believe, all the technology in the world will never make this place a better one to live. Where as "love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' and 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself." would. That is the difference between religion and science. The bloody history of man"kind" has bore painful witness to it.

God bless

Answer 4

They do coexist in today's world. It's just that people tend to want to push what they believe in regardless of what that means for other people.

Science without philosophy is madness; faith without understanding is zealous extremism. If you agree that Faith is a philosophy of our creation and Science is an understanding of the way things work, then it should follow that these things require each other for perspective.

Any good scientist understands that there are mysteries too complex to rule out a creator, and even the most devout Christian, Muslim, Jew, or Hindu can see that night and day did not come before the creation of the sun; that is a fairy tale told to explain what the science of ages past could not tell us.

The challenge of having faith in a religion and knowledge in a science is knowing that both are tools to understanding, not shields to block each other out.

Answer 5

I am answering from a Christian perspective, so here is how I look at it. I believe the study of science is the study of the rules God established for the way the universe works. By learning more about science, we can learn more about God. By studying how science works, we can learn more about how God works. So, what about the Bible? The Bible is only one of the sources we have to learn about God. We have our own personal experience of God. We have the historical experiences of others that are recorded outside the Bible. I believe another source of revelation about God is the kind of human knowledge encompassed by science and medicine.

Answer 6

There are a fair amount of scientists who profess to have a belief in some kind of higher being. They rarely are stalwart believers in a particular religion, as that is in direct contradiction to everything science stands for.

Answer 7

"Science" consists of all of the means that God uses to control the functions of His creation. All Science is from God. It is man's mucking with God's Science that has cause all the trouble that mankind finds it's self in now... If mankind truly understood even a % of God's Science all of mankind would be living in peace and plenty as God intended... But mankind lets greed and ego dictate misuse of God's science... and suffering is the result.

Answer 8

Yes. But science does contradict many things that are in the Bible like the creation story in Genesis.

Answer 9

Science and religion cannot coexist when religion declares "truths" that cannot be challenged. Science is about doubt and analysis and cannot accept any sort of statement as true just because someone says so.

Science and blind faith are antipodal concepts.

Answer 10

If I not mistaken, I do believe that Galileo spent the rest of his life in prison for contradicting the church with his scientific findings. "The earth is not the center of the universe", those kinds of findings.

Answer 11

If religion sticks to things spiritual and stays out of the realm of science then I don't see why not. Unfortunately people who believe in the non-science of intelligent design can't seem to keep things straight. (For example, anything posted by that guy a few answers down.)

Galileo had to recant a known fact in order to avoid being murdered in the name of god by religion. I seriously doubt if he had that much esteem for the institution. More likely he was pleading for the mere survival of science, not for the equal cohabitation of the two.