Some religious people deny the truth as revealed by science, eg evolution. Is it a sin to dumb yourself down?

Question

The bible was written by people in the middle east thousands of years ago. They did not have ways of gaining objective truth. Science is the best way we have of gaining truth through scientic method yet some religious people deny the truth. Does god consider it a sin to deny the truth as revealed by science - for example evolution is the means of creating life, including humans and other primates.

Answer 1

As a Christian, I think it is.

1)Creationism drives who knows how many people away from having a truthfull and meaningfull relationship with God.
2)Creationism implies that God is a liar
3)Creationism is not science and it is not scientificly acceptable

Paz de Cristo

Answer 2

It's no sin to be stupid. Shucks, the churches will baptize even REtards.

But it IS a sin to "Bear False Witness", even against those you perceive to be "enemies of God". If you tell lies about the meaning of Evolution, or Evolutionists, or claim Darwin recanted on his death-bed, that's "Bearing False Witness" and it gives the Christian an express-train ticket to Hell. They don't seem to realize that.

Holy Holly: in the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, did Sherlock Holmes have to be physically present at a murder to determine who did it? No! Things in the past leave CLUES, and that's what scientists use to find the truth. YOU didn't witness Creation either, and you've NEVER seen God, no one has. In fact if you're a Christian you're in a really sad state. An Atheist can work for the improvement of his society; things can get BETTER with science. But a religious person has to sit in the pew and a witch-doctor in the front tells them amazing stories of contact with God and miracles that happened HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO but NOT to them. They will never experience any of that stuff, and religious leaders are pleased to tell them that! After a while the religious person gets so resentful he starts his OWN religion just so he can reset the calendar to the Year Zero and have amazing things happen to him, or at least THINK so in his mind. So religion constantly regenerates, desperate for that HIGH of actually SEEING what doesn't actually exist! A constant merry-go-round that would be silly if it weren't so destructive to real human lives.

Answer 3

No God likes dumb subservient boot licks.
Evolution is a theory not a fact, theory means the best explanation available. Theory's can be either true or false.
Sorry the ancient peoples had access to scientific principals, there was a Greek who correctly calculated the curvature of the earth in 3 BC. There are many other examples of advanced thinking check out China's history of scientific exploration.

Answer 4

Hello SW.. :)

No..God does not deny science..

The Education of Daniel and His Friends

Daniel 1

3 And the king spake unto Ash'penaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;

4 children in whom was no blemish, but well-favoured, and "skillful in all wisdom", and "cunning in knowledge", and "understanding science" and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldean's.

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1 Timothy 6

20 ¶ O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

21 which some professing have erred concerning the faith.

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You speak of science being the way we have of gaining the "Truth" and your are correct, though Biblical science and science falsely so called, are not one in the same.. :(

If it were, then a scientist that is not a believer, would know how and why a miracle occurs..wouldn't they..seeing a miracle defies the very laws of nature..

I say this in Love.. :)


In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..In Christ.. :)


ADDITIONAL: I hope before I get too many thumbs down, someone will be able to dispute my answer..

I Love you All.. :)

Answer 5

No, you're rather sane and sensible to correctly known the vindication of Judaeo-Christian revelation in technology. As you're saying, the founders of technology have been customarily Christians who regarded that the author issued the two ethical rules and organic rules, and that the organic rules have been discoverable by using scientific procedures of theory attempting out by experimentation. in certainty, we are residing in an age the place God's innovative skill has been revealed in procedures unknown to previously generations. all of us understand that the universe erupted out of no longer something on the commencing up of time, which regulations out any organic causation, which might require remember, skill, time, and area to exist previously the introduction of remember, skill, time, and area. in basic terms an immaterial and timeless clothier appearing purposefully can account for the vast Bang. in assessment to Darwin, we now understand the main primitive cellular isn't a gelatinous blob, yet a innovative ask your self with molecular equipment directed by using stupendously complicated counsel saved in DNA and RNA. That such counsel would desire to arrive from a actual-chemical reaction is previous remarkable; it incredibly is laughable. the subject concerns of naturalism and abiogenesis are no longer in basic terms thorny subject concerns watching for extra discovery. they are ineffective-ends for naturalism that would in basic terms be solved by using sensible layout. Cheers, Bruce

Answer 6

i sort of agree with you but i enjoy throwing a spanner in the works so i'm going to disagree with your idea that science produces 'truth'.

science produces facts and organises them with theories, but they are not true in the absolute (religious) sense. some may say this is a weak epistemology and prefer their absolute truths even if they were just made up by some guy a few hundred years ago who thought he could talk to angels. but really it's their loss, i think that one shouldn't pretend that science is something other than what it is for any reason. i like to think science is a way of *approaching* the truth though - if the theories are less wrong this year than they were last year, science is working. anyone who looks at the history of science over the last 400 years and says it doesn't work just seems delusional to me.

Answer 7

Creationists believe in creation for two main reasons that I have come across:

1. They don't want to be punished by God for not believing in Genesis, and
2. They don't want to be hypocrites (nobody does) by believing some of the Bible but not all of it.

Evidence really isn't an issue for them. In their minds they think God is the answer to everything.

Blind faith produces ignorance, and I think it is terribly wrong to deny something like evolution because of this. As long as religious ideas are kept out of legislation (which is a big issue right now), I will be happy.

Answer 8

Wilful ignorance is a crime, however if someone's family raise them to believe evolution is fake and then either homeschool them or send them to a school that teaches evolution is fake, you shouldn't judge them too harshly if ignorance is all they've ever known.

Answer 9

so once again you will listen to science(man) than to ask HIM if He is out there most people do find God if they seek with a humble heart! search...read that Bible and Faith comes by Hearing the Word, there are alot of resources to get your hands on so you don't have to take my word for it - in this belief you'll ultimately have to choose to believe in Christ and all He did or not.

Answer 10

Christian answer:Of course not(looks offended)!
Real answer: Not what they said.
Either way, don't care. I'm a greek polytheist.