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I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IF STEPHEN HAWKINGS PEA INSTANTON THEORY OR ALAN GUTHS QUANTUM FLUCTUATION ORIGIN ARE NOT PROVEN THEN IN EUROPE WHY DO MANY PEOPLE THINK SCIENCE EXPLAINS BETTER THAN RELIGION

2007-10-03 03:32:05 · 5 answers · asked by BODIN 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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BECAUSE YOU ARE ASKING IN ALL CAPS.

Seriously, though....

The reason that people think science explains things better than religion is because generally, with regards to the physical world and universe, it does. Science is all about learning about the world, and learning about why it does what it does. This is not necessarily at the expense of religion, but this IS at the expense of religiously-motivated eye-covering.

Look at it this way: Nobody knows why the Big Bang occured. We know, beyond all but the slightest shadow of a doubt, that it DID occur. But what caused the singularity to let loose and expand? Nobody knows. Perhaps that is God's doing - perhaps not. The idea that the Singularity existed does not exclude God - it is as likely, as far as anyone knows, that God set the Universe into motion as anything else.

Now, scientists are trying to figure out why the Big Bang occured. But they aren't just giving up, dusting off their hands, and saying, "we don't know, it must have been God" and walking away. That's not what science is about.

2007-10-03 03:38:28 · answer #1 · answered by Brian L 7 · 1 0

Religion never bothers to explain. It insists that you just believe what is said as it is being said since ages and also threatens disbelievers in the name of sin and hell.

About providing explanation, how can you compare two ideologies, one which does attempt to explain, whereas the other just does not cosider it necessary to explain.

2007-10-03 04:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by Madhukar 7 · 0 0

Religion explains nothing at all. It is nothing but a bunch of claims by people without evidence, designed to be accepted blindly by people without experience. Science has at its goal to explain. That alone makes it better at explaining than religion.

2007-10-03 05:09:22 · answer #3 · answered by Fred 7 · 0 0

Because the answer "what you observe is the way it is because that is how God wants it to be" is somehow less satisfying than "what you observe is the way it is because A happened then B which the laws of physics tells us would cause C which leads directly to what you observe"?

2007-10-03 03:39:20 · answer #4 · answered by BNP 4 · 0 0

Because religion is the excuse humans make when they can't think logically. (Don't worry just have "faith")

Oh and one other thing; punctuation is really cool, try it sometime.

2007-10-03 04:09:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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