if your religion is based on scientific and mathematical concepts i.e the origin of life, what is the origin of the scientific and mathematical concepts???
im losing my religion as a christian... looking for a plausible reason...
2007-08-09 11:29:11 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Man is the origin of scientific and mathematical concepts... and man was created by evolution, which was created by the big bang. No God.
2007-08-09 11:31:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
OK, you are now aware that atheism is not a religion so I won't labour the point!
I don't understand what you mean by the origin of scientific and mathematical concepts.
No-one knows the origin of life. If anyone says they do, they're lying. The main thing is that a scientific and mathematical concept is more logical and believeable (to me anyway) than an invisible being that just happend to poof everything into existance.
As long as we have a limited understanding of how things came to be, then logic dictates that we will never know the origin of life.
Logical beings need a 'beginning', i.e. "what came before the big bang?". Some of those beings chose a god to explain things. I have no explanation but I cannot believe in a god, and I know that science will find the answer in the end.
Hope this helps.
2007-08-09 18:37:33 · answer #2 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have no religion. I don't believe in religion. Religion is all about false dogmas and imaginary beings.
The evolution of mathematics might be seen as an ever-increasing series of abstractions, or alternatively an expansion of subject matter. The first abstraction was probably that of numbers. The realization that two apples and two oranges have something in common was a breakthrough in human thought. In addition to recognizing how to count physical objects, prehistoric peoples also recognized how to count abstract quantities, like time — days, seasons, years. Arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), naturally followed. Monolithic monuments testify to knowledge of geometry.
Further steps need writing or some other system for recording numbers such as tallies or the knotted strings called quipu used by the Inca empire to store numerical data. Numeral systems have been many and diverse.
From the beginnings of recorded history, the major disciplines within mathematics arose out of the need to do calculations relating to taxation and commerce, to understand the relationships among numbers, to measure land, and to predict astronomical events. These needs can be roughly related to the broad subdivision of mathematics, into the studies of quantity, structure, space, and change.
Mathematics has since been greatly extended, and there has been a fruitful interaction between mathematics and science, to the benefit of both. Mathematical discoveries have been made throughout history and continue to be made today. According to Mikhail B. Sevryuk, in the January 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, "The number of papers and books included in the Mathematical Reviews database since 1940 (the first year of operation of MR) is now more than 1.9 million, and more than 75 thousand items are added to the database each year. The overwhelming majority of works in this ocean contain new mathematical theorems and their proofs."
atheist
2007-08-09 18:34:44 · answer #3 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You might want to do some reading, such as "Doubt, A History," by Jennifer Hecht, and "Why We Believe What We Believe," by Andrew Newberg, just to get a sense of the history of faith and the neurobiology of belief.
Bear in mind, also, that you are not faced with a binary choice of Christianity or Atheism. There is a very wide middle ground, called agnosticism, which strikes me as rather sensible. Agnosticism means, basically, "not knowing." If you can get past the notion that we have to be certain about these things, agnosticism is a very fertile intellectual field.
2007-08-09 18:47:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists don't have a religion, we don't believe there is a God. Scientific and Mathematical concepts are basically discoveries made through observation, thought and a bit of imagination.
2007-08-09 18:32:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A. Not a religion
B. Not necessarily dependent on science
C. The origin of scientific and mathematic concepts vary (Greece for trigonometry and basic astronomy, Arab nations for algebra, England for other advances in these fields, and so forth)
2007-08-09 18:35:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People actually thinking would be the origin of scientific and mathematical concepts.
People make-believing stories is the origin of the Bible.
2007-08-09 18:33:11 · answer #7 · answered by saywhat? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Science and mathematicas are the current best guesses.
The difference between scientifically based thought and religion is that those scientists who try to burn disagreeers at the stake, or have them stoned, don't get as far as popes and imams. Scientific thought usually admits that explanations are the current best, not the only and universal and permanent and compulsory explanation. If you go to a scientist meeting with a serious challenge to their dogma, you may get booed. If you do that in a church, you may have severe consequences.
The Western dictionaries prime definition of religion involves a God. The secondary definition is about fundamental belief system. If your fundamental belief system is that killing is wrong, you will be in conflict with many religions.
No one knows the extent of the nerve input into their own brain. We all walk around processing a reduced version of what our brain remembers happened not too long ago. We do not track our cells, our microbes and parasites, our viruses. We are only aware of some general ruminations that are presented to us by a system of prioritization that is barely beginning to be understood.-This is all from major scientist,not my opinions.
In light of our ignorance of ourself, is it not preposterous to believe that ancient books compiled by emperors and kings with deviousness and murderous agendas, tell us the nature of truth?
It is not shameful to say I don'tn kow if we are all head lice on a super-universe toddler, or a dream of Megaloth. 15 years ago, we didn't even know that the matter we know is barely 4% of the currently knowable.
There is no need to pretend to understand 14 billion years and billions of light years of expanses. It is OK to live the best way possible. To accept that causes produce effects, and that bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people and the various chuches', temples', synagogues explanations have their self-maintainance as their primary goal.
2007-08-09 18:58:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before thinking about science and math -
First think about this. Does religion make sense to you? Does the bible make sense to you? Do the concepts of Heaven and Hell make sense to you? Does the idea that you inherited sin from Adam and Eve make sense to you? Does the idea that someone else could "wash away" you sin? Finally, does it make sense that you are judged on Faith and not on Works?
After that you can start looking around. There are lots of philosophies out there that make very good attempts to answer the Big Questions of Life. Do some research and see what works for you.
Finally, you can look at science and math. But they do not address many of life's Big Questions and are not intended to address them.
Good luck
2007-08-09 18:35:45 · answer #9 · answered by Alan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is not a religion, it is a non-belief in gods, that's all. Science has nothing to do with religion or atheism, it says nothing at all about the supernatural. Both atheists and theists are scientists. Mathematics is the language of science but is a discipline in its own right and, again, it has nothing to do with religion or atheism.
2007-08-09 18:35:03 · answer #10 · answered by tentofield 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋