Why do some scientists reject God?
2007-10-14 23:32:32 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually because of conflict between science and church, current sience is based on atheism, Yet, its only SOME scientist who reject God, even among common also SOME people reject God
2007-10-14 23:37:28 · answer #1 · answered by Happily Happy 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Why do many scientists say that the polar caps are melting, when the Antarctic ice cap is thickening at a faster rate than ever before seen?
Why do many scientists BELIEVE in a theory called evolution when there is NO evolving currently happening, NOR is there definitive proof of it in the fossil record?
Why do many scientists insist that there is no God, but yet they are currently turning to an asinine theory of 'universal consciousness' in order to attempt to explain away the complexity of the orderliness of the universe, and of life on earth?
The answer to these questions is: MANY scientists will blatantly LIE in order to cover up their inability to understand our complex universe, and they are simply too arrogant to turn to the one reliable source of truth: God's inspired word, the Bible.
2007-10-15 07:00:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now, I'm not necessarily a scientist, but I know how they think, because I am not one of you God-people myself. Science gives many people what they want. These people want cold, hard, numerical evidence of something being true. God cannot or will not give this evidence to us, so, we turn elsewhere for it.
Many people tell us that blind faith is the only way to achieve the knowledge of God, but this goes against everything that we know. We do not know anything through blind faith, and to blindly accept anything without being able to prove the validity of the source is deemed absurdity. Why believe in something that we cannot even prove to ourselves?
This can be summed up with a simple analogy: There is a bench. If you tell people the paint on it is wet, some will believe you and know that the paint is wet, and go about their daily lives. The rest of them will have to get paint on their hands to realize that the paint is wet.
Religious people believe that their religion is correct because that is what they believe. They have no paint on their hands, and assume that the paint is wet.
Non-religious people, such as myself, have to see, feel, hear, get SOME sort of input from this/these higher power/s before we believe. That's just the way we work. We have to get paint on our hands, and no amount of telling us that the paint is wet will satisfy our insatiable need for knowledge.
2007-10-15 06:43:29 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix_Slasher 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People believe in god for many reasons , but one of the most common is that they have no other way to explain our existence, and the existence of the earth and the Universe. Science is about finding other answers and explaining the natural world, so scientist who based their belief on this as children stop believing.
I sometimes wonder if the reason that some Christians want to prevent their children from being taught science is that other explanation of existence would undermine their faith also.
2007-10-15 07:07:38 · answer #4 · answered by meg 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing controversial about it. It's not only scientists that rejects God. Even before Christianity, like with buddhism, people has rejected thought of a God. (Buddhists are Atheists)
2007-10-15 06:36:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Scientists reject GOD because they only believe in the 'physical' realms but they are so obsessed by the 'physical', they forget to understand that 'everything' that is physical is bound for decay and destruction, they ignore the 'metaphysical' realm that is beyond decay and destruction. Basically scientists have closed minds and king sized egos which makes them ignorant of presence of 'GOD', but I think their rejection of 'GOD' is their loss not 'GOD's'.
2007-10-15 06:47:13 · answer #6 · answered by crewsaid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not very controversial, sorry. A loaded question though - the phrase "reject God" implies we are refusing to believe something that exists.
Scientists by definition are not going to believe anything without evidence. We are trained to question everything before accepting it. Show me some evidence for the existence of God and I'll consider it. Until you do, why should i believe God exists?
2007-10-15 06:37:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Scientist are emperical people who deal with facts and observable things. They also deal with issues that can be controlled and repeated. They also deal with patterns that can fit already acceptable theories and hypotheses.
God can not be observed empirically. Spiritual experinces with God are varied and sometimes hard to copy and repeat. Some patterns are hard to understand even with some theology. God said, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, and My ways are not your ways."
Faith is not very scientific that calls for hoping and believing for things not seens and things yet to come.
Maybe you could ask Hawkins or Einstein. They are scientists, but they hold a different view of the universe.
2007-10-15 06:39:48 · answer #8 · answered by paulyaranon007 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is no god to reject, and you don't need to be a scientist to do it. I'm just a carpenter.
2007-10-15 06:41:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because God cannot be proven by science. God created science not the other way round.
2007-10-15 06:50:08 · answer #10 · answered by chrisky33 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋