My faith in science is justified...?

Question

Christians tell me that my willingness to accept science is faith. OK Fine. Let's assume that my acceptance of science is faith. When I broke my ankle, the doctors fixed it using techniques that were developed by science. I have food to eat every single day because science has developed ways to plant massive amounts of germ resistant crops. Science has also drastically improved the quality of my life. I have a car so I don't have to walk everywhere. I have a TV, a refrigerator, a washing machine, a house, and a computer, all of which were developed by science. However, faith in God never did anything to improve the quality of my life. Ever since I gave up on the church and decided to go to college for engineering, my life has been so much better. Faith in science yields results. Faith in God yields nothing.

Answer 1

Well seeing god created us and the universe then he also created science. Science is a long way behind god.
Put your faith in the maker not the analyzer

Answer 2

True religion and science go hand in hand. Religion takes over where science stops. Faith in science yields results in this world and faith in religion yields results in the hereafter. The only religion compatible with science is only Islam. To know more about science and Islam, kindly log on to www.islam-guide.com and harunyahya.com. Also some peoples hatred towards islam and ill-practices of the muslims should not hinder one from seeking the truth!!!.

Answer 3

Science doesn't require faith. It operates on physical laws that are predictable and reproducible. Should I have faith in gravity?

You've got it right. When 1/4 the population of Europe died from plague, the churches and people prayed because they thought the disease was a punishment from gods. Groups sprouted up that executed heretics and who encouraged self-flagellation. The religious government tried to cut down on prostitution and drinking. Note that people still died, and corpses littered the roadways.

Faith didn't save millions of people who chose not to pursue science unless it fit into their religious beliefs.

Science is still the thing most people depend on when something goes wrong. Without it, I would have died in childbirth from jaundice and my mother might have died from complications (she was 36 years.

But nothing happens when I stopped believing in the supernatural. Aside from a few snide comments from my fundamentalist mum (she still doesn't think the earth is billions of years old), my quality of life has actually improved.

Your support for science is more than justified. I intend to support scientific research, alongside the millions of other people who understand the importance of understanding reality in elegant, empirical terms.

Without science, we'd be fossils, like the dozens of species of hominids that preceded us.

Answer 4

And who gave those scientists the thoughts to do those awesome things? God. Who put the seeds in the ground in the beginning, to develop those tasty foods that you eat every day? God. And who by the way, developed the lightning in the sky that powers your TV, refrigerator, washing machine, and computer? God! I think you need to give into the fact that God has blessed you with all that you have. Come back to God, for it is the least you can do.

Answer 5

the object of your faith needs to be strong,

nothing wrong with putting faith in science, I do

I fly in a plane, others have faith it will fly, I don't, but I still get in,

I think your faith in God yeilding nothing is because you don't honestly know God. If you did, your faith in science would increase, and your benefits would as well

i'm not saying your faith in physics of flight would increase. Mine never have, I survived some missle attacks in iraq due to pilot skill (God given) and the physics of rotory wing aircraft.

I hope you will find reason for seeking the Lord, but if you don't, it is your life, not mine that is lost

Answer 6

THis is an off religious answer. Have you ever thought that maybe science and god are one in the same? what if its how god works? I mean if I was in a metaphysical world I would behold a way of physics, so why wouldnt i in the physical sense. this is not a sermon just a thought.

Answer 7

having faith in science seems unwarranted. Science is either prove'n or disprove'n. faith on the other had can yield much too many people, why take this from the children, Santa clause is so special too many..

Answer 8

you're making the assumption that, just because logic applies to worldly matters, it applies to all matters

not necessarily true

and how do you know God didn't intend things to be like that, intend it to seem like he wasn't real, to see who truly had faith?

always a possibility

as for faith in God revealing nothing, i'm sure for you it wouldn't -- you don't have faith. obviously it would yield nothing for you. you would have to ask someone who does have faith in God that question to find out if it yields anything

Answer 9

It's not one or the other. I have everything you have, although I'm in a different field, learning-education, and I still believe in God who is the source of all knowledge. You are limiting your exploration and experience to the physical realm and denying yourself access to the spiritual realm. They are both knowledge. Knowledge of the physical universe is complementary to knowledge of the spiritual realm in the same way both wings of a bird are complementary to the bird's existence and function -- to soar.

Answer 10

You are wrong, your sience only stablized your broken ankle in a fixed position, it healed not by a scientific principle but by a natural principle created by God. The Bible says "what do you have that you did not receive? so why do you boast? God created everything that you have and use. In case you didn't know, food was around long before scientists found ways to mass grow it.