Science and Religion?

Question

Does Science contradict the Genesis account?

Answer 1

Science will slowly over time prove every one of the Genesis accounts true since they were acts of science performed by God.

Answer 2

Yes, and in every way possible. According to the Genesis account, God created the world in 7 days. Science tells us that the process was more complex than that and took millions of years. Now we don't know how long a day was for God, but both accounts are full of holes. For example, Genesis states that man was created in God's image. Science says we evolved from primitive life forms over the course of millions of years of evolution. Neither one can prove which way we really came to be. It all depends on what you think and which theory makes more sense to you.

Answer 3

How do we know if anything we know about the creation of the universe is true? Most of everything we consider true has been told or taught to us by someone else. We just don't live long enough to prove everything ourselves. In order for humans to survive we have to make decisions based on information given to us.

I'm not smart enough to really understand if the universe is expanding and I've never touched or seen anything to show that WWII happened. I have faith that it is expanding and that WWII really did happen because the information I've gotten from other people seems pretty convincing to me.

It doesn't seem like a stretch of the imagination that people trust the Genesis account of creation. Like everyone, they've had to choose who they trust for their information. The conclusion might be drastically different but the information gathering social-process of coming to that conclusion is much the same.

Answer 4

Science is an alternative mythology when it comes to explaning the origins of the universe. Being that its an alternative, and there are no real good objective criteria for determining which mythology is more accurate, neither mythology can truly prove the other one wrong.

Ultimately, Science, taken strictly as an ontological framework (i.e. explaining existence), is based on personal conviction in the faculties of human reason and logic. So please tell me, who said the origins of the universe are reducible to matters of reason and logic?? Similarly, Religion, taken the same way (as an ontological framework), is based on personal conviction that a Divine Creator exists. Both parties are fundamentally believing things by personal conviction, even though scientists often delude themselves into believing that they being far more objective.

The problem is that its possible that in order for the universe to be a logical, reasonable place, you must first have some set of initial conditions to make it be so -- where did those initial conditions come from? If the universe as a reasonable structure is self-existent (neither created nor destroyed), then it seems we have imbued it with God-like powers, hasn't it?? And if the universe is not self-existent, then reason demands that we immediately imply that it must have had a Creator! Otherwise, where did it come from?

The trapping of reason is that reason defeats itself. To use reason as a means to explain existence... its like a dog chasing its tail. Its like searching the house for the sun glasses that are on your head.

Answer 5

Only if you take Genesis as literal, at which point, Genesis contradicts Genesis, as well.

Answer 6

Yes, of course - all of Genesis. Genesis is just a metaphor for the human condition and was probably intended as such by the bloke who wrote it.

Answer 7

Science and religion are the two great seekers of truth. No genuine truth from either source can conflict with genuine truth from the other. Truth cannot conflict with truth. Clearly demonstrated facts of science cannot conflict with the Word of God. But they can conflict with unauthoritative personal interpretations of the Word of God. This is how far from truth people have been led through the unbiblical manmade tradition of sola scriptura.

Answer 8

In some aspects yes, it is what you belive, if you believe the big bang and evolution it does contradict, however since these are just theorys, not laws, and they can not be proven they do not directly contradict the Genesis story of Creation.

Answer 9

No.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

II Peter 3:8

one day of the lord i like a thousand years.

he's an eternal God. he can create the all of this this things even a thousand a million
or of billion years.

for example a Diamond. it comes from ordinary coal

for a long time of heated and compress for millions or billions of years.

Answer 10

Depends on how one interprets Gen 1-2.