Holes in Science?

Question

there is no doubt that there are a number of unanswered questions in many scientific theories

but why do some people automatically think that those gaps can be filled by god?

Answer 1

only the brainwashed christians think that but the people who live in the real world will never put a fairy tale god in to fill in the gaps thay will try and fill in the gaps with science

Answer 2

Back in the 70's-80's, I studied a lot of science and math at high school and college. Biology, Chemistry, Ecology, Astronomy, Anatomy, Geometry, Trigonometry, Physics, etc.
I've been going to Sunday school since I was about 3y old.

I don't know it all by a long shot. But I can tell you this: I've been a Christian for many more years than I studied in school, and I've found that there are probably 5 times as many holes in religious beliefs than there are in scientific theories. since that time, they have proven over 80% of those theories, and have improved on the rest with new information found with new technologies.

The things in the Bible haven't been proven, and those few that have are in our World History books. The Bible does confirm some archealogical evidence, as do many ancient writings before it. The evidence speaks for itself, however.

Evolution is pretty evident. It's pretty evident, based on the EVIDENCE, that man has been on this earth for more that 10,000 years. The monkey thing is hard to grasp, but what about Neanderthal Man? If we didn't EVOLVE from this creature, then WHO was he? And WHERE were we? God gives me no evidence of him creating man. These days, I prefer to see some evidence, before I make decisions on what not to believe.

Answer 3

It's not just a matter of some holes. Science has been busy the last 100 years defining the limits of science. Black holes, the event horizon, quantum theory all limit what science can ever know. In the equations, this limitation takes the form of statistics (random variables).

These limitations, from a philosophical point of view, prevent us from ever saying that God isn't involved. Science can never say whether God is involved or not and must develop the correct phraseology to so indicate.

For example, evolution does not explain how we came to be here. There are far too many forever unknowable factors that preclude such a conclusion.

Answer 4

Excuse me! LOL!!

you didnt yourself fill the hole of your irrelevant and baseless Evolution theory. You say man cam feom monkey! Wow!! did u ever see that? or were youthere when that particular monkey gave birth to a man?

What you believe are all based on imaginations my friend , just imaginations. Get out of your soap-box and think once again. Dont try outsmart God.

Answer 5

Many scientists state that nothing is entitled to belief and acceptance except that which is sensible or tangible. By their own statements they are captives of nature, unconscious of the spiritual world, uninformed of the divine Kingdom and unaware of heavenly bestowals. If this be a virtue the animal has attained it to a superlative degree, for the animal is absolutely ignorant of the realm of spirit and out of touch with the inner world of conscious realization. The animal would agree with the materialist in denying the existence of that which transcends the senses. If we admit that being limited to the plane of the senses is a virtue the animal is indeed more virtuous than man, for it is entirely bereft of that which lies beyond, absolutely oblivious of the kingdom of God and its traces whereas God has deposited within the human creature an illimitable power by which he can rule the world of nature.

Answer 6

Well, science essentially is oblivious to god... and rightfully so. Science is looking for natural explanations for natural things. The presumption of science is that everything that can exist and anything that can occur in the universe is, by definition, natural... even if we cannot presently understand it or explain it. Again, this is as it should be. When Napoleon asked Laplace why he did not mention god in his book about astronomy, he replied: "Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis."

Religion doesn't see it that way, though:

* At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, SCIENCE says: "We don't know... OK, boys... let's roll up our sleeves, dig in and find out."

* At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, RELIGION (imagine South Park - Officer Barbrady) says: "That's too complicated. God did it. Move along. Nothing to see here. Everybody go home now."

Religion exists in a strange netherworld between two logical fallacies (flaws in thinking)... the 'Argument From Incredulity'. I goes something like thsi: "I can't understand (or imagine) how that might have come to be; therefore, God did it." and the 'God of the Gaps' fallacy, also known as the 'Divine Fallacy'. The God of the Gaps lives at the bleeding edge of science... and religionists view the advances of science as an encroachment into their territory. They are at war, fighting a rear-guard action against the advance of knowledge... and the preoccupied scientists, for the most part, don't even KNOW that they're in a fight.

Science doesn't attack god. That is true from the perspective of science... as I said, science is oblivious to god... he/she/it is simply out of scope. From the standpoint of the religiose, though, science is the mortal enemy... because science is a primary source of KNOWLEDGE... and it is KNOWLEDGE that threatens 'god'. First they took away the earth being the center of the universe, and the focus and purpose of all creation... the god of the gaps got his butt whipped. Next thing you know, lightening is just an electrical discharge... not a manifestation of the wrath of god. The god of the gaps got his butt kicked again. Disease caused by germs, not demons. Ouch. Planets aren't wandering stars... they are bodies that orbit the sun. Whap. Stars aren't little lights placed on the firmament (the solid barrier between heaven and earth... i.e., the sky)... they are actually suns, like our own, unimaginably far away. God of the Gaps gets kicked right in the nuts. And on, and on, and on. The God of the Gaps has NEVER won a fight with science... NOT ONCE. Every time there is a scrimmage between science and the God of the Gaps, another gap gets filled up with knowledge, and the God of the Gaps slinks away, with his tail between his legs. Earth isn't 6,000 years old... it's 4.5 BILLION years old. G of G gets kicked in the balls again. And on and on... and on.

Well, they're tired of getting kicked in the balls... so, they've changed tactics. Rather than fighting the battle on the basis of knowledge and evidence, they fight it on the basis of lies and misdirection. Science won't engage them... heck... it won't even acknowledge them. So, rather than engaging science, they just appeal to their constituency, which is scientifically ignorant for the most part, and feed them a bunch of plausible sounding pseudo-scientific lies. Take 'Intelligent Design'. The strategy is not to argue this on a scientific basis... it is to "Teach the controversy"... except in the scientific community, THERE IS NO CONTROVERSY. But their constituency doesn't go to the scientific community for their scientific information... no... they go to the people they TRUST... their SPIRITUAL LEADERS... and they get fed pseudoscience, misrepresentations and lies.

Willful ignorance, lies and delusions are winning. Science is losing. The God of the Gaps, FINALLY, is holding the line against knowledge, reason and critical thought.

So, while it is true that science doesn't attack god, that doesn't really matter... because as long as they PERCEIVE science (in general) to be an attack on god, we're going to be in an ongoing fight. At some point, in the near future, we need to wake up and realize that, or we're going to end up back in the Dark Ages.




Steve b Seeking afte…You REALLY need to make an effort to learn how science actually works. Your answer reeks of ignorance of the scientific method.


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Answer 7

Everyone knows that the Theory of Gravity is Bogus!

Its God pushing downwards not Gravity that makes things fall!

Answer 8

There are holes in Science, shoot and all this time I have spent on here reading others responses, I thought that Science was ,excuse me, IS Facts all around, no holes at all

dang you learn something new everyday

Answer 9

I don't but why do people assume something and then try to prove it? That is no longer research. Research is looking for the answer not assuming an answer then trying to prove it.

Answer 10

yes ur rite God made a human and the gaps in science are human too God is perfect ur rite but he does not fill holes he is perfect.

JEHALLAH!!!!!!