How can science replace God if God created science?

Question

When it comes to theories like the Big Bang, I just got to wonder, why isn't it entirely possible God created the Big Bang if that is how the galaxy came into being? Also, the Big Bang might explain how one galaxy, our own, came into being, but it does not explain the creation of the entire universe.

I do not believe the Big Bang theory, but that is just an argument I make to point out that belief in a Creator is still possible even while believing theories.

Science is about the mechanics of the universe, and it is far too impossible for some sort of chaotic beginning to have constructed the patterns by which atoms align themselves into physical proportions that make up the material world. There has to be some kind of intelligence that made everything and maintains Creation. Without the will of a higher being how can there continue to exist the universe and all the laws of nature? It seems to me only a mood the media is in to want to try and say there is no God, only science.

To clarify for those genuinely interested in a good answer and making good arguments rather than listening to how their own mouths please their ears...

The Big Bang theory relies on the assumption that all physical matter that came out of this explosion can reach all the boundaries of the entire universe. That is ridiculous. It cannot. No matter can travel faster than the speed of light, many scientists and myself believe, and only light can travel beyond the scope of a galaxy. Matter cannot, though there is the subject of dark matter. Dark matter is the formation of particles from energy, which is obviously how there is matter and the same kind of matter in other galaxies.

No one has answered my questions or presented any answers to make me think. I did not post to make a statement, but it seems that statements are all I have gotten. I am not out to put someone's thinking down. I am out to spark some thought and hear something intelligent in response. Will it happen?

Answer 1

Great post man! But these boneheads will never get it.

How can the creation EVER explain or be greter than its Creator? These knuckleheads think they came from slime and that their brains are all they need to get by on. When they are proved wrong it will be way to late to do anything about it.

The Big Bang:

God spoke and then BANG the world was there!

Answer 2

Science is about questions and experimentation but its also about facts and proof! Religion is about creating a world where people feel safe, people don't want to/ can't accept that the only reason we are on this earth is to maintain the human species and that is it. Death is the end and no-one wants to accept that because its very scary but unfortunately very true. Science cannot replace god because you can't replace something that doesn't exist with something that does. I don't even think you can equate the two to be honest because religion is looking for why we are here and what is the purpose whilst science explains how we are here. At then end of the day people can argue till they are black and blue about what is and isn't right and we will probably never know the answer. I mean facts like the universe is continually expanding into nothing and we come from something so small we can't see inside our mothers does boggle the mind and its so hard to understand because it isn't logical. I can see how this leads to a belief but then on the other hand look at the evidence, look at the evidence for evolution, (lactase genes pushed to high frequency in relation to agriculture) and look at all the medicines science has created. If god did make us he did it with an awful lot of faults! Faults that scientists can fight and cure so he obviously wasn't that good at the creating in seven days lark!

Answer 3

Science is not a created "thing", it is a disciplined intellectual process that accepts only premises that cannot reasonably be disproven. "Creating" the universe does not amount to "creating" science. To say so is to pretend to claim a scientific explanation as a religious explanation.

Clearly you do not understand the Big Bang theory. It describes the emergence of the entire universe, NOT just the development of our own galaxy. One can claim that God created the universe by setting into motion the natural physical processes that led to its formation, but it is intellectually dishonest to imply that the scientific explanation is merely an expansion and clarification of the scriptural account.

Science demystfies. Religion preserves and reveres mysteries. The quaint notion that the ongoing conservation of matter and energy requires the conscious thought of an omni-aware and omniscient super-being is based on no human experience and obviously derives from human anxiety about our own impermanence.

Some things about the universe are hard to figure out, but science doesn't give up. It keeps tryng until it finds an answer. And with every answer it uncovers, the mysteries shrink, and God's territory gets a little smaller. So yes, science is gradually replacing God, not because of some anti-Christian campaign, but because essentially science's explanations are simpler and more logical than divine interention.

Answer 4

where to start? your question demonstrates that you're profoundly ignorant about science.

science is a method for discovering knowledge about nature. what would god need with such a method? he supposedly created the universe, he would already know everything about it. science is a human invention.

the big bang concerns the development of the whole universe, not just this galaxy.

i missed the part where you actually demonstrated that god is necessary for any natural process to occur, you just assert it with no evidence or argument. "the patterns by which atoms align themselves into physical proportions that make up the material world" are determined by physical forces such as electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. "some kind of intelligence or higher being" is, sorry to say, not required if we seek to explain nature and its continued existence - we both have to suppose that there is something that 'just exists' - you say it's god, i say it's nature. on the other hand if you want to feel like the universe is your buddy, it may be necessary to believe in gods.

Answer 5

These are things that cannot be proven one way or the other. Even if there is a way to prove the exact time and place of the big bang, how could someone prove how it was triggered and why. And if it were God would the scientists admit it?

And looking outside, what doesn't point to there being God?

Answer 6

I see what you are saying, but honestly, I don't worry about these things.
See...what Patrick (answer above me) doesn't understand is that belief in creation by God isn't something that needs to have anything proven. There doesn't need to be anything that "points" to the existence of God. The entire belief is based on faith.
How wonderful it is to believe in an infallible God instead of science which is of man and definitely fallible!

Answer 7

...You contradict yourself within your question. We're 'assuming' for a moment that god does not exist and that science explains everything (which it's pretty gosh darn close to). If god doesn't exist, how can he create anything, let alone science?

Anyway, it is god that replaced science. God is your answer to everything. Science was just something off to the side that explained a few things. Nowadays, science has advanced DRASTICALLY and it continues to advance and explain more and more things that were unknown before. Your notion of god has stayed basically the same since... well, since the creation of the idea.

Answer 8

Nothing points to an existence of god! That's the problem with your entire argument.
So you're saying that if it seems to complicated that a "God" must have created it?
Leading Theists are saying that evolution would be possible, but the problem lies in your chosen God. If you follow the Bible, then you can't state that God made science, because the Bible states that the Earth.... is flat, stands on pillars, and is surrounded by a dome that holds the stars in place. If you believe that.....then by all means, keep your faith. If you have to rationalize the issues of slavery, women's rights, and God him/her self in the Bible instead of using proof, then again, keep your faith.
Can tell me why God answers the prayers of those that ask for raises or promotions, but the same God doesn't answer the prayers of those that are starving, suffering, and being slaughters in Rwanda? When you answer this question, do you feel as if you don't know or are you going to tell me that it's in God's plans?
If it's in God's plans, then do we really have free will? You can't have destiny and free will, because they are total contradictions of each other.

Answer 9

God created this universe on some principles and discovery of those principles is science. Science is not or never or cannot replace God.

Answer 10

Misplaced is more like it.

"Once science and religion get together, they will both stop monkeying around."

The "Big Bang" is not a theory,
It was "put out for consideration."

The "Big Bang" had to "Bang" something.