Why is it that believing in things without empirical evidence is bad in all situations, except religious ones?

Question

Extended, why is science so capable and knowing about almost any manner of things, except when it involves the bible?

Wait, scientists believe in intelligent design (in nature)?

No, they don't.

Answer 1

You can believe whatever you want. You don't need empirical evidence to do so. I can believe I'm a great dancer despite the lack of proof, I'm just not being rational. If you want to be rational, though, the empirical evidence should support your view.
Now some questions don't need evidence at all. I might believe that I prefer the color green to the color blue. But if it's a question of fact (such as "Is Jesus God?") then it should have empirical evidence in order to rationally believe it.

Question 2: Science can tell us a lot about Biblical claims if those claims are taken literally. The Universe and our planet are billions of years old, for instance. Breeding animals in front of a striped pole doesn't change their color. We think with our brains, not our hearts. Pi isnt' three. There aren't four legged insects. Things like that. But one can believe the Bible without taking such claims in it literally. To the extent that the Bible is figurative and allegorical, science does not test that. Furthermore, science is a tool for testing natural, not supernatural claims. So the supernatural claims of the Bible are not subject to scientific testing.

Answer 2

It's bad in ALL situations period! Especially when such beliefs cause you to burn people at the stake, fly aeroplanes into tall buildings etc.
The existence of "god" is a postulate which is not testable by scientific method and as such should not attract intelligent credence!

Answer 3

specific, it is easily a logical fallacy noted as "placed up hoc ergo proctor hoc" reasoning. somewhat, it assumes that for the reason that "that journey accompanied this one, that journey would desire to have been brought about with the aid of this journey". guy or woman: in case you knew how the clinical approach labored, you would be attentive to that attempting to disprove a hypothesis is step one in clinical hypothesis checking out. Jeanmarie: In technology, there are no absolute "information". Theories interior the clinical experience are no longer meant to be "information", yet fashions of fact. in spite of the undeniable fact that, what we do have are very good hypotheses, subsidized with the aid of strains of testable and falsifiable information. Evolution is a form of hypotheses. So is the thought of Gravity. And Germ concept... and the thought of Relativity... Creationism, on the different hand, has no testable strains of information and makes no predictions by any ability. for this reason, it is merely an unsupported relgious opinion, and one no one interior the clinical community is obligated to take heavily... and no-one does.

Answer 4

It's never good to blindly assume or believe anything without proof. It's the sign of a desperate mind, to cling to things that aren't even real.

Answer 5

Some thinks can't be proven, physically. Can my thought be proven...you don't see it. But as time goes on, we are learning more through science of God's wonderful creation. Scientists are now believing Intelligent Design. All they need to do is realize who the designer really is.

Answer 6

Today's science was yesterday's magic. :)
Science has not proved God/s one way or the other, thought it does lean more one way then the other. Many people believe the DO have proof. Round and round we go...

Answer 7

First, I don’t think empirical means what you think it means:

- derived from or guided by experience or experiment.

- depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory, esp. as in medicine.

- provable or verifiable by experience or experiment.

And I think there is “evidence” of God . . . If moving trees demonstrates the presence of wind, then can’t millions of worshipers point towards the presence of God?

Tens of millions of followers of the God of Abraham worshiped the Creator since Friday – Jews Muslims, and Christians all worshiped the same God of Abraham.

You don’t have to “believe” in God, but the fact millions of other people do, is evidence of . . . what? Hundreds of millions of people throughout history are foolishly wrong?

Godspeed.

Answer 8

Science is an orderly way for manto understand God. As with our existing knowledge; it has a limitation of how far it can go to 'understand things'.