In today's world, what should be given more emphasis: Science or Religion?

Question

Should we back down from experimenting the mysterious, the unknown through science and technology, just because a religion says it is 'blasphemy' or 'against the will of God'?

Just to add. I believe in God. But, at the same time, I'm a scientist , therefore, this curiousity.

Can you prove or justify how science and religion go together? Making a statement isn't going to suffice.

Answer 1

Science. I think that religion should be given very little emphasis, if any. Religion is a personal matter between a person and their own conscience. Science is something that should be more public for it benefits all mankind.

Answer 2

If you are a scientist you can glorify God with your work.Take evolution for instance.Evolution is a worldview.It's a belief system.It is very much a religion as anything else.If you are a scientist you know yourself that something like biology would not be hindered at all with the absence of evolutionary thinking.God gives men and women of science knowledge for a reason.Your purpose is to find out what he wants from you in the field of science.You're not going against the will of God.If you were you would be dealt with by him.Keep on with your work.If your work was evil,then maybe it could be considered blasphemy.If your heart is true,and turned over to the lord.You will bare fruit in your work.

Answer 3

Why must science and religion be mutually exclusive? As a Catholic who is also a research scientist, I am not in favor of muzzling either one for the sake of the other. Science deals with that which can be observed and tested in the natural world. Religion deals with that which defies experimentation, things that are unknowable in the scientific sense. Science deals with the what and how, religion with the who and why of things we classify as "unknown." Science does not threaten my religion, and I don't trip over my religion while I'm in the lab. Where's the conflict here?

Answer 4

It's as simple as this. Science is the investigation of the natural world. Religion is the belief in the supernatural. Until science finds a way to logically and responsibly investigate the supernatural, science can't infringe on religion. There should be no religious restrictions to scientific investigations.

That's not to say that there aren't ethical implications to scientific research. But allowing strictly religion to block scientific research is absurd.

Answer 5

This of course it up to the individual, however I say why can't the 2 be mixed. Who says the gods don't dictate the laws of science. I mean no one can tell me were the original material for the big bang came from, why can't a god have created it and put everything into motion? Personally I think that the laws of spirituality, magic, and science are all interconnected, we just haven't found proof or data on it yet. OK, I'm gonna stop babbling now...

Answer 6

If our discoveries really go against the will of God then throw God out. Mathematical and Scientific discoveries have been going against the "will of God" for hundreds of years, honsestly. I think imaginary numbers were evil at one time. St. Augustine had some terrible things to say about mathematics as a whole.

Edit: I took trig last summer and our trig teacher put St Augustine's quote on our first test.

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell" (St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37).

Answer 7

In today's world, I believe that parents need to really be involved in their children's life and pass down their culture to them just as much as they would feed their child to survive.

I don't think that schools or other educational institutions (aside from churches) should consider teaching religion, they should stick with the science, as it has always been to this day.

To answer your question, in my private family, I feel that religious indoctrination is my duty. Science, the school can handle, but the intermingling of both, I don't agree with it.
It's not blasphemy or against the will of God, there's just so many religious differences, and I don't agree with the majority of religions out there.

Answer 8

We should not back down. That would be ridiculous. If religion cannot adapt to the times, then it must be cast aside. Why would we ever want to just sit back and wonder, when we can explore? Human nature craves progress, adventure, and exploration. Science, without a doubt, should be given more emphasis. Would you want to be at the hands of terrorists or other nations that hold a new weapon of complete destruction? Don't you think that we'd all be speaking German if we hadn't developed the atom bomb first?!

Though I understand the bombs were used to defeat Japan at the time, our purpose was that Germany had begun development. Germany fell before we completed it.

Answer 9

Science and religion really deal with different areas of study, but both sides want to enter into the other side. Scientific study deals with repeatable physical events that can be studied and replicated in a controlled, laboratory environment. Religion deals with why we are here, our purpose in life, etc. Science pretends to study origins, but what they really do is make speculative extrapolations of data as they find it currently. Extrapolations (either into the past or into the future) are always dangerous.

Answer 10

Science should ALWAYS be given more respect and emphasis than religion. Logic, reasoning and critical thinking are the root of all explanations, evidence and proof. Religion is nothing but faith; a wish, a dream and hope, nothing more. You cannot prove or learn anything with wishing, dreaming and hoping.