Please help me answer this question, I need ideas to write my essay summary. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
2007-09-26 15:04:49 · 17 answers · asked by jew her 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Think of it this way, perhaps: God has given us the gift of intelligence. What we do with that gift give glory to God.
That's one approach.
2007-09-26 15:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
You used the phrase "essay summary," which isn't a term I am familiar with.
A "summary" would mean relating in a few words the ideas that have been expressed elsewhere in a longer work -- but you haven't identified anything to be summarized.
An "essay" generally has a subject, an audience, and a purpose (such as to explain or persuade). Presumably your audience is an instructor; I'm not sure of the purpose.
The question itself is too vague to pin down; by "science" do you mean "scientists"? by "spiritual purpose" what do you mean (some think of "spirituality" as meaning a specific religion or belief, others view the term much more generally).
2007-09-26 15:10:29 · answer #2 · answered by Mark Welch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
Why do so many religious people not think that God could work within scientific principles?
Science and religion have nothing to fear from each other if they are both sincere and truthful.
God directs miracles, but it doesnt mean a miracle cant be scientifically explained.
God could have easily created this world based on sound scientific logic and laws.
Sometimes when you really learn how things work on a scientific level you are totally amazed at just how efficient things work and run, esp in nature and in our own bodies. If anything that can strengthen the great knowledge and power of God.
We should be trying to advance scientific research as much as possible (minus weird and amoral strange scientific experiments that might harm other people like cross breeding a human and pig or something)
We dont know all the science yet and we dont know by which scientific principles God directs things to happen so when people act like the 2 contradict each other it is absolutely untrue.
I think we should watch out with the arrogance that just because we can explain a very few scientific facts and phenomenon that we know everything. We know very very little in terms of science. It may just be that God is a God becasue he knows all the science.
2007-09-26 15:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by cadisneygirl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The more I learn about the universe, the more I am in awe of God's mighty power and endless creativity, so in that sense science leads me to worship.
To discover the complexity and wonder of God's creation. The Bible says we are fearfully and wonderfully made. The more I study the body in it's complexity and detail, the more I appreciate this statement. We are not just a glob of flesh.
Science also allows for most of the inventions we have today. Since God was the creator I think it's in our nature to create and science helps us to follow in His footsteps.
Understanding the design helps us to understand the Designer. Judging from the sunsets, waterfalls and such you can see that God likes beauty. You can see by all the natural laws that God is a God of order, not chaos.
2007-09-26 15:14:44 · answer #4 · answered by em T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you think the question "Where do we come from?" have a spiritual edge to it, well, physics is getting closer and closer to answering it. How about the what we are made of? You can thank chemistry for answering that one. Think about doctors saving lives, medicine is a science. Science is really everywhere, you just need to think outside the box a little. Good luck.
2007-09-26 15:10:27 · answer #5 · answered by j-o-v 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion evolved because of mankind's misinterpretation and mistranslation of The God Yahweh's scientific based instructions in The Laws of Moses. So yes. Science has a spiritual purpose. It was unknowing to us being taught to us for the first time by God Himself.
2007-09-26 15:15:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think science can have a spiritual purpose if one so wishes to find spirituality in science... We do not yet have all the answers, and for some that answer is GOD DID IT.
2007-09-26 15:09:45 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, science helps us to appreciate the universe that God created even more. We become in awe of his wisdom. When you see a rainbow and realize that it composed of light being refracted off of tiny raindrops acting like prisms you become filled with a sense of wonder. In the Bible the rainbow was a symbol of promise made to Noah. In order for us to see the rainbow we have to be standing at the proper angle, I believe about 30 degrees. Similarly in order to see the promises of God we need to be in right standing, i.e. righteousness.
You see science combines with faith in God to open up the world even more.
2007-09-26 15:14:15 · answer #8 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bahai Faith has a very nice view on Science and Religion. They believe that science and religion work in harmony with one another and that they are absolutely inclusive of one another.
”In such a world society, science and religion, the two most potent forces in human life, will be reconciled, will co-operate, and will harmoniously develop.”
Baha'u'llah, The Proclamation of Baha'u'llah, p. xi
”Religion and Science are inter-twined with each other and cannot be separated. These are the two wings with which humanity must fly. One wing is not enough. Every religion which does not concern itself with Science is mere tradition, and that is not the essential. Therefore science, education and civilization are most important necessities for the full religious life.”
”The Bahá'à Faith recognizes the unity of God and of His Prophets, upholds the principle of an unfettered search after truth, condemns all forms of superstition and prejudice, teaches that the fundamental purpose of religion is to promote concord and harmony, that it must go hand-in-hand with science, and that it constitutes the sole and ultimate basis of a peaceful, an ordered and progressive society.”
”While the religion of God is the promoter of truth, the founder of science and knowledge, it is full of goodwill for learned men; it is the civilizer of mankind, the discoverer of the secrets of nature, and the enlightener of the horizons of the world. Consequently, how can it be said to oppose knowledge? God forbid! Nay, for God, knowledge is the most glorious gift of man and the most noble of human perfections. To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error.”
2007-09-26 15:09:46 · answer #9 · answered by grind333ing 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No science deals with facts, evidence and proof. Evidentially the spiritual world is either devoid of those or ignores them totally, and so science is useless there. A more reasonable hypothesis is that tthe spirtual world is non-existant.
2007-09-26 15:10:16 · answer #10 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
science is a tool by which we answer questions, by logic and with observable evidence that can be replicated. "spiritual" in principle, means immaterial, and therefore can not be answered by science.
2007-09-26 15:08:15 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋