Religion and Science, does anyone else see the irony?

Question

Many of the first modern scientists began their investigations to discover how god works, how god acts upon the world. Over time, science began to uncover that many of the things that were attributed to god had perfectly natural explanations. The more science explored the less room there was to hide a god.

It started as a trusted endeavor to understand god, and when the evidence began to show that the god hypothesis was highly unlikely, religion gave up on honest inquiry in reverted to dogmatism.

Answer 1

And this is what led to the Dark Ages. The church decided to shut down any scientific works for fear of a scientist completely disproving the existence of God.

Answer 2

On the other hand, relying on "God did it" is a way to avoid having to think and work to find out why things happen. It's the lazy man's way of dealing with the world. It's also the path to profound ignorance, but the men running religions like it that way, because an ignorant population is easy to control. If people learn to think for themselves, and stop accepting "God did it," the religious "leaders" (a term used loosely, at best) will be out of work. Make no mistake: Organized religion has never been about faith, salvation, or gods. It's always been about power and control. Science pretty effectively wrests power from the hands of the religionists. They're starting to get desperate, and it shows.

Answer 3

Catechism of the Catholic Church


159 Faith and science: "Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth." "Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are."

Answer 4

of direction, it rather is as much as those that have faith in god (or gods) to teach its lifestyles. And to be completely straightforward technology will by no skill coexist with the supernatural religions using fact there's a ninety nine.999% hazard there's not something supernatural occurring, nor will a 'god' ever look. in specific the Jewish, Muslim, or Christian god. i don't say this with contempt for those supernatural religions or their god. I in simple terms have a difficulty while the actuality is overshadowed by making use of superstition and falsehoods. edit: notwithstanding this is not non secular those that Atheists and Agnostic-Atheists combat with. we've a difficulty with human beings denying the actuality and accepting lies interior the call of what they have faith feels terrific for them. we actual hate that.

Answer 5

Absolutely not true.

The Catholic Chruch welcomes Science, most of our early universities were even founded by the Catholic Church, Notre Dame, Boston College, ect.

Some do hide from Science, but Catholics do not.

Peace be with you!

Answer 6

Albert Enstien said : science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ...

Answer Me Few Questions

Could anyone in 7th century Arabia have known that the universe is "steadily expanding," as the Qur'an puts it, when modern scientists have only in recent decades put forward the idea of the "Big Bang"?

Could anyone in 7th century Arabia have known about the fact that each individual's fingertips are absolutely unique, when we have only discovered this fact recently, using modern technology and modern scientific equipment?

Could anyone in 7th century Arabia have known about the role of one of Pharaoh's most prominent aids, Haman, when the details of hieroglyphic translation were only discovered two centuries ago?

Could anyone in 7th century Arabia have known that the word "Pharaoh" was only used from the 14th century B.C. and not before, as the Old Testament erroneously claims?

Could anyone in 7th century Arabia have known about Ubar and Iram's Pillars, which were only discovered in recent decades via the use of NASA satellite photographs?

Could anyone in 7th century Arabia have known in detail the various stages of development from which an embryo grows into a baby and then enters the world from inside his mother?

Could anyone in 7th century world have known that our atmosphere is made up of seven layers?

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Answer 7

Now as science gets ever deeper into the realm of the atom, space and time, they realize how little they really know and how unexplainable and mysterious things are, and that science may eventually have to give way to spirituality. Even Einstein admitted that he had to believe in a superior intelligence behind it all.

Answer 8

Great Point.

People forget that Education and Medicine were religious creations, however as time passed on and teachers, doctors and professors started learning more and more, the concept of God was reduced and eventually reason took over.

Any true attempt to find God using Logic will always conclude with the seeker finding that he doesn't exist.

If you listen to conversion stories, they always include statements like "I knew in my Heart", or "I felt his presence"

That is because belief in God doesn't include logic or reason or evidence.

Answer 9

Ah, the typical atheist cry that religion and science cannot cohabitate this universe.

Conversely many religious people have no problem with a God that has created natural order for us to live under, and works through the natural order. Actually, as I seem to point out daily on these boards, the Catholic Church was the first major organization to accept the Big Bang theory (just to make one very common and well known example).

So God created a universe that has laws to govern it instead of somehow him pullling all the strings like puppets...so?

Answer 10

If early scientists did not believe God had a "master plan," there would be no scientific method today. Unfortunately (or not), this has proven God and any plan unnecessary.