How can people say science is "theory", and then prove that with what Arabs wrote 1000s of years ago?

Question

This is NOT an attack, do not take it as such. I am sure a few close minded fools will take it bad and attack me, but that shows their charactor, not mine. I have been asking questions like these lately, not to attack, but to understand where people are coming from. I also do not mean any specific religions. All diviations of Judism, Christianity, Islam and the other branches. I know science is not perfect yet, and probably never will be. But to believe people who wrote things with no knowledge other than the "fact" they believed God talked to them, vs thousands of years of science sounds silly. People say science is theory, fine. But religion, as religion refers to itself is mearly blind faith.

Answer 1

What science are you talking about? If you mean such psuedo-science as the evolution story, then it doesn't deserve to even be called theory.
I don't dismiss such pseudo-science because of what any book, including the Bible says. I dismiss it because it is unscientific, and it defies natural law.
Take, for example: 'abiogenesis' the preposterous notion that life can just spontaneously generate itself, by chance from a random mix of sterile chemicals acted upon by the random application of raw (undirected) energy. This defies the laws of: Biogenesis, Cause and Effect, Probability, Information Theory, the Second Law of Thermodynamics and plain common sense. Incredibly, atheists and evolutionists have the audacity to claim that 'abiogenesis' is a 'scientific' fact.
Not only is it not a fact, it is not scientific, and is an insult to all good scientists who value the scientific method.

So if people choose to use the Bible to discredit such unscientific nonsense, presented as science, then why not?

Answer 2

Science cannot define & explain everything in detail, so therefore the theists tend to reject anything they feel might not agree with their religious book. However, I haven't noticed any stepping off high buildings because science can't yet explain exactly how gravity works & is created.
Edit:
Many people have a natural propensity to believe in the supernatural & will accept the existance of bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, UFOs, fortune tellers & predictions of Nostradamas as fact before they will accept scientific evidence to the contrary. They, given the chance, would drag us into the dark ages again.

Answer 3

Nice question. How people can believe a book that's been changed and mistranslated so many times throughout the years (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.), I don't know. I'd like to see a religious person answer. (I saw someone said that the bible was written by god. I didn't know god could write!)
(I don't want to personally attack anyone, either, but . . .)

Answer 4

I believe that Religions are tools for men to control men... Faith, on the other hand, is how we believe in a better tomorrow, better things for mankind... Arabs have made great contribution to Humanity, as well as other ethnicity, and it is a shame that a few Arabs are tarnishing an entire society. I am Celt, my people were just about exterminated because of their believes... We, people, should concentrate on our similarities, instead of our differences...

Answer 5

If the fact that was something was written thousands of years ago and with limited scientific understanding means that is has no value today, then we most reject most of mathematics. It was discovered thousands of years ago by people who had little understanding of cosmetology, genetics, and other recent science.

By your argument, we must reject algebra, because it was developed by Arabs thousands of years ago, again with no knowledge of modern fields of science.

Instead, those discoveries form the basis on which most of modern science rest. It is timeless wisdom that has lasted for ages.

While the authors of the Bible many not have had all the understand of modern science, they still had timeless wisdom that stands the test of the ages. Murder is still wrong. Adultery still destroys family. Perjury still should send people to jail. Morality and human nature have not changed in the centuries since the Bible was written.

Nor has God. He is the same as he was then. Nothing in modern scientific discoveries have altered him. Nor has it altered his laws, or the relationship he seeks to build with his people.

Science deals with the area of "facts". Religion deals with the area of "truths". Neither of those had changed over time. So the "truths" learned centuries ago or as true and valid today as they ever were.

Modern science is based on the idea of developing a theory, and then testing it to see if it holds up. The Christian religion is build on the same rules. Contained with the scriptures of the stories of hundreds of people, over a 1500+ years, who believed in God, and tested him through their lives. The positive results, again and again, of those people if recorded in the 66 books by over 40 authors. That is not "blind faith", but a body of evidence that would convince scientist if it was in any other area. (And that has convinced many of them).

So neither the age of the Christian faith, its origin with Middle Eastern people is a reason to reject. Nor is it build on "blind faith", but rather on the testimony of hundreds through the ages who have meet God and seen his power in their lives.

Answer 6

i agree religion is a blind faith. sceience may not have all the answers, which was why we still know very little despite all the knowledge we've gained. Considering that Religion really wants to believe in the afterlife and that there is something worth dying for. They are afraid of death (That isn't to say we aren't afraid), and that the idea of deity creating humans is more easier for them to grasp rather than the idea of evolution.

Answer 7

it all matters what you consider to be science, science is great knowledge as long as it isn't corrupted with UN proved things that people insist are fact. science is great but the text books would look a hole lot different if you got rid of the lies they have in them. mostly when they say theory is fact

Answer 8

I agree with you completly.Mabee what the bible or what the qur´an says is true but mabee its not.Who´s to know_?Science is fact.Science and Religion can go hand in hand but people are so brainwashed and close minded that they will not accept any thing else.They are fools.

Answer 9

Love comes from the soul. For if love came from a hormone, then it would come from with-in like adrenaline.

People think that people imagine the feeling of love. That it’s a trick of the brain.

Yet, love comes from where the people touch you, not from with-in like a hormone. If love were up to the perception of the user, then how come no matter what mood you are in,.. you still feel love. If you hate the person loving you, you may feel grossed out to love,.. but still feel the love. If love were up to the imagination of the user, then you could trick people into thinking inanimate objects are people hugging them.

Now from what is seen here, we see that the soul has an energy that is independent of matter,.. but has side effects in matter. Hence the brain is specifically designed to react to the spiritual energies we emit.

Now what do you say about the people who have felt God’s love? Being in God’s presence charges the soul and body. It’s called the renewing of the Holy Spirit. And this residual effect goes away when people travel down old thought patterns that contradict the perfection that is God.

Answer 10

I'm not sure what you mean by your question. I think you're saying people will discount scientific evidence, and even call it a lie, just to prove that their religion is right. They're in denial. I've even heard people say that dinosaurs never existed, because it's not in the bible. Religion is insane.