Do they (scientists) establish God's existence the similar way any religious believer would do?
2007-10-17 10:14:14 · 15 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You seem to have quite a caracature of scientists in your mind.
I have many "scientist" friends: engineers, chemists, even a physicist. The believers among them believe exactly the same way other believers do, with their hearts.
2007-10-17 10:17:01 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This doesn't make any sense. God is not "scientifically established". Theism is a religious belief. Religious beliefs come from personal experiences and personal philosophies, not the scientific method.
Science operates without including notions of deity in the picture. This is because if you entertain the idea that some invisible, undetectable super being can change anything to any extent for any reason, then you can't be sure of anything in the world. So science doesn't say "God exists" or "God doesn't exist"; the notion is just not applicable to the scientific method. It's a religious belief. Even scientists who DO believe in God believe for personal reasons, not because of what they did at the lab that day.
And I take it Jacqueline either always sucked at science as a school subject, or is mad that she can't get work with a Liberal Arts degree.
2007-10-17 17:19:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nope, I don't think so. Most religious believers justify the existence of God from the bible and scientists do not. I think they have some statistics they came up with for the probability of a higher power but thats about it. I think most scientists have"debunked" the existence of God but nobody truly knows except for those who are dead.
2007-10-17 17:21:30 · answer #3 · answered by Elizabeth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
science uses the scientific method to validate claims.
science seeks to explain the world we observe around us. it doesn't ask us to believe anything that cannot be independently verified, and isn't interested in telling us what we should and shouldn't do. in other words, it doesn't care what we think.
it seeks to explain how. mathematics is the language science uses to explain quantity, structure, space, and change, etc.
faith is outside of science, something for each individual to consider, but it is not a part of science. you would never fly in an airplane that a start-up company built that wasn't subject to safety regulations, or would you? if they told you it was safe, why wouldn't you?
scientists don't interpret god with mathematical reasoning.
2007-10-17 17:28:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science is still primitive. Eventually the intersection of psychology, biology and physics will explain the nature of the relationship between being and reality. Until then we have only religious adepts who have intuited that rarefied world - where god/reality, the multidimensional non-material field in which we are embedded is responsive to consciousness.
2007-10-17 17:56:38 · answer #5 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a disconnect between mathematical reasoning and religious faith. There IS no mathematical proof of god, so, if a mathematician is a believer, it is a leap of faith, and not an expression of mathematical reasoning.
2007-10-17 17:19:33 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a God of rules and laws just like science.
2007-10-17 17:19:14 · answer #7 · answered by dilainebriggs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah um...scientist do not really establish the existence of god at all-they really have more important things to do like cure your granny's cancer.
2007-10-17 17:18:23 · answer #8 · answered by berlytea 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein tried.
2007-10-17 17:17:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows ... but then again..who cares?
Scientists are just huge geek wads that got made fun of and shoved in lockers in high school..
2007-10-17 17:18:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋