Ever notice how it's the most hateful and bigoted religions that try to deny science?

Question

Christianity and Islam.
Buddhists, Hindus, even Jews, aren't nearly as contentious about science. Much of it jives with them, and they are willing to deal with reality.

Answer 1

SO sorry to disagree with you BUT, I am a Christian, and I have a BS...what do you have to say NOW!?!?!

Answer 2

You fundamental premis is somewhat flawed, however it certainly applies to the cretinous fundamentalist Christians who sprang out of the so called Bible belt in the USA and are now spreading their bigotry globally.

Take for example the likes of Nicolai Copurnicus or Sir Isaac Newton, both were devout Christians and their contribution to the fundamentals of modern science is of the utmost importance. Then during the so called 'golden age of reason', namely the Georgian and Victorian eras was the period of great discovery in science, there devout Christians such as Michael Faraday (Electricity), Max Planck (Quantum theory), Lord Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell (Physics) and Gregor Mendel (Genetics) to name but a few.

Muslims too had many major contributors to science and in particular observational astronomy (all of the stars with names date to the early Islamic period) as well as mathematics.

It's also worth remembering that Charles Darwin was not an Aetheist, he was a self professed Agnostic as he acknowledged he had no answer to the proof or not of a God in the final analysis.

I'm not a Christian by the way, and I wage unceasing war on the right wing fundy morons who pose as Christians, however one should not tar and feather an entire religion because of a small but highly vocal lunatic minority.

Answer 3

I don't have any problems with science and I am a Christian. (I was a biology/chemistry major in college and actually love science!) I don't know many Christians that have problems with science. If that were a true statement, then why do Christians use technology, medical advancements and treatments, or basic hygiene, etc. We don't have a problem with PROVEN, FACTUAL science. After all, it was created by God. The problem that we have is with bad science and people that try to say that theory is equivalent to fact. By this, I am specifically speaking of the theory of evolution (which I am sure is what your question is referring to). Evolution is taught as fact, and it is not fact. There has not been one complete fossil record for ANY species. No one can answer the question of HOW life came into existence under this theory, and it is not reproducible. It goes AGAINST proven science (the law of biogenisis, life comes from life). And there are gaps and holes in the entire theory. Microevolution is good science. Testable, visible, reproducible. Macroevolution is just bad science that we, and our children, are being forced to swallow. Even highly trained, highly respected scientists believe evolution to be false and an impossibility.

Answer 4

Hinduism has'nt had a science Vs. religion stance. The Rig veda says let good ideas flow in from all directions. Hindus keep an open mind worship knowledge and their religion continuously evolves. Hinduism has long ago said that all people pray to the same god, they just like to do it in different ways. It also sees all animals including man having the light of god within them instead of dominion over animals. Besides the whole reincarnation theme for improvement is somewhat similar to evolution. Buddhism evolved in the same environment.

Answer 5

I would add a caviat to that claim...that it would be the most hateful, bigoted, conservative branches of the Abrahamic religions that try to deny science.

There are many liberal and moderate versions of the Abrahamic faiths that accept science and its findings. If ALL of the Christian, Islamic, and Judaic faiths denied science, we would never have made it out of the Dark Ages.

Answer 6

Well, certainly seems that way. All Eastern philosophy, Buddhism and Hinduism on your list, encourage the pursuit of both physical and psychological knowledge.

Answer 7

Yes, I have noticed that. Those people just like to cause trouble. That's the only reason they do the things they do.

Answer 8

False. there are many Christians who embrace science, however, Jesus is first and foremost!

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

oh geez, get a grip. I can't stand these crap questions without exploring Christians as a whole before judging by a few.

I do not deny science. I deny scienTISTS who do what they can to disclaim the Bible without complete knowledge of God. They already seek biased answers and clues, rejecting other hints that support intelligent design.