Is it really a warp speed stretch to invision Spirituality and science being taught side by side?

Question

I mean faith answers the why questions and science answers the congruent how questions.

Why cant we just teach spirituality and science in one class:

First:This is what God said He did
Second:This is the physical science of how He did it.

Now does the brain really have to be stretched like taffy or a rubberband to imagine that?

Answer 1

Oh, man, Maurice, I didn't think that you could sink lower.

Answer 2

Believer's answer their questions using discourse, while science creates its answers with experiments that are repeatable by anyone. Discourse on a subject, and especially on one that you fervently believe to be true, is not anywhere close to scientific experiment, or withing the bounds of scientific reasoning, even though the discourse is repeatable.
Also, why magnets attract or repel one another, for instance, involves both the how and the why. Why magnets repel or attract one another, and how magnets attract or repel one another, both involve answering the same question. Science is not a game of words where the best sounding argument is true. It frequently turns out the other way around.
God is also just a 3 letter word, or dog spelled backward; and science has shown that labels can be interchanged without there being any noticeable differences. Regardless of what label we use, whether it be god, Yahweh, or whatever, we are just dealing with labels. Science deals with the real things behind the labels. Bungee cords won't stretch from the earth to the moon either!

Answer 3

No, true science never goes against the Bible. Some of this is a repeat of the answer I just gave, but let me state again. In Genesis the word 'work' is the only word of that day for energy and the word 'made' means made from nothing. Putting these together this means the whole world was made from energy. Kind of like -> E = M* C^2? When it says He rested (quit) from all the energy He made, isn't that like the conservation of energy law? In Colossians it says He hold it all together at the present. We can't define a single force. We have equations for their strengths but that does not define the force. Evolution has a form of credibility because it follows the exact sequence as Creation. Yea, I know the church made the assumption the world was flat, but science is making just as dangerous assumptions. Such as the carbon 14 level has been constant for millions of years, without measuring it over time, and distance is linear across the whole solar system. Einstein says as we approach the velocity of light distance approaches zero, yet we observe light, traveling at the speed of light, and say it came from light years away. There is an error there somewhere. At the best it makes it a non-linear system.

Answer 4

One reason it cannot be done is that people don't see the difference between spirituality and religion.... that is where we must change our attitudes... the church, their god and so on has nothing to do with spirituality, it seeks to conquer through the spirit but has nothing to offer humanity. Now if you are seriously thinking spirituality of nature.... here's a first class for you... Earth is a living organism, nature is it's spirit, Earth is ever evolving, changing and working to be more balanced and peaceful... Earth is meant for a variety of life to occupy it.... plant life, human life, animal life, it's always working to be better.... Nature is like it's spirit,, learning changing acting reacting and so on... When we look at eco systems we understand the impact the loss of a species can mean to the environment...... well through religions the earth has lost both the societies and the people that worked with earth's spirit.... looking at the history of the church and what they destroyed in their rise to power... from burning of heretics and witches which represented the spiritual people to the destruction of cultures and societies through crusades and inquisitions... we can only imagine what we lost, and or the imbalances it caused through out the world...

Answer 5

You don't really want to teach science or spirituality at all. You just want to indoctrinate students into YOUR religion at taxpayers expense.

If your faith so weak it can't survive without welfare?

Answer 6

I think science and spirituality can be seen as compatible once they stop shouting at each other and start talking sensibly.

Answer 7

religion evolved from mankind misinterpreting scripture written in scientific text which will one day soon force this scientific text to be taught in science classes in public schools right out of the Bible.

Answer 8

Well Maurice, do you want your kids taught the things that Scientology thinks? Same idea.

Answer 9

not with my tax dollars.

your own hypothetical assumes a Judeo-Christian god being taught; that's the last thing we need. "he" has gotten plenty of free advertizing as it is.

Either teach all gods - 10,000 or however many - or teach none.

Answer 10

Provide material evidence for the existence of god, then we'll talk.