It seems that people believe in one or the other: evolution or creation, Six Days or Big Bang. Creation Science has attempte to bridge the gap but with mixed results.
2007-10-30 17:16:58 · 18 answers · asked by Joshua K 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most Spiritualist's believe in evolution and the big bang theories.This is not a new concept, but rather has been around since the 1800's. We believe science can indeed explain how God does create. Isn't it more of a creation for life to have taken millions of years to evolve rather than God saying ' poof ' there it is?
2007-10-30 17:22:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
For long it has always been viewed as if religion and science are enemies. But people who have a deeper insight into both shall agree that in reality science and religion are not enemies but inseparable twins. one exists for other, by other.
Where tangibility of science ends is where religion picks up. Had not religion visualized flying angles, man would not have had dreamt of flying and would not have employed his scientific faculties in research and development. This is but an example.
In India science and religion have co-existed for centuries, and a healthy mixture of both is seen in the daily lives of people here. Why, even scientific documents elucidating the property of medicines (ayurveda), science of architecture (sthapatyaveda), science of sounds (saama veda) have been a part of the vedic traditions in India which are predominantly looked as religious.
I mean if a person thinks rationally, one wont find a conflict between religion and science at all. Rather they are complimentary.
2007-10-31 00:53:19 · answer #2 · answered by RAKSHAS 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It seems like the degree of plausibility for some people is directly proportional to the complexity of the science.
For example, the action of fire is a relatively simple concept. You apply a heat source to something, like paper, and once its ignition point is reached, it ignites. Everyone I know (and probably most anyone who has seen fire in action) believes and accepts this action as fact.
Evolution though is magnitudes of order above that in complexity. Theoretically, over millions and millions of years, we humans emerged from countless baby steps of lesser organisms into what we are today, through a variety of complex biological mechanisms, tempered by various climate and other environmental changes.
Fire we can readily observe the action of, but evolution we can't readily, or at least not without a microscope perhaps.
Given this, maybe the fear of the unknown comes in as a big motivator for faith. We can understand fire and don't fear it (unless we're on fire ourselves maybe), but evolution some of us don't even have a basic understanding of, so some of us fear it, and therefore make the choice to ignore the "white elephant in the room" of evolution and embrace faith instead.
Maybe?
2007-10-31 00:34:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Creation science doesn't exist. However there is no conflict between real science and true religion. Truth cannot conflict with truth.
2007-10-31 00:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God never separated science from himself :^) man in his ignorance has done that. i don't see God and science not belonging together... it is impossible. because the more that science reveals about the universe, the more i am in total awe of God's creativity and power. man simply discovers how God designed everything and how it functions, then gives no credit to him for it. it is great however how many more scientists are becoming believers in God from their study of the universe and of life. it simply, mathematically could not have been a series of random occurances and accidents. the probabilities for it are so astronomically high its "like tossing a fully disassembled 747 jumbo jet into the air and having it land fully assembled." now i don't know exactly how big of a number that is, but it is impossible to me. and that is why we are seeing a push for "intelligent design" cirriculums to be brought back into schools. science was given to us by God to better understand Him, not to try to disprove Him. that is foolishness.
2007-10-31 02:13:30 · answer #5 · answered by GARY R 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Creation Science isn't science, and it isn't doing religion any favors, either.
If you want to believe both, just shift the first chapter or so of Genesis into the allegory column and call it good. But don't go around misinforming people about science in the name of some needlessly literal interpretation of an ancient text.
2007-10-31 00:25:49 · answer #6 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
In my case, I enjoy discovering connections between religion and science. When there are gaps I find hard to resolve, I ask God to explain them to me.... I would be awed by the discovery and the unfolding of some mysteries of the universe. Things will not be properly revealed to you if you allow yourself to panic, and well, that fear of losing one's security blankets. The Universe has so many surprises to show you... God meant it to be .... that you discover new things.... to understand that eternity is forever the unfolding of life in their different levels.
What we have learned in the past are not only these, but they are an infinity of them yet. ... an infinity of things to expect yet and be surprised and be awed with our every discovery of them.... For me, everytime this happens, I always find it an opportunity to thank and praise God for His Wisdom and greatness.
2007-10-31 00:33:08 · answer #7 · answered by Gentle Breeze 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I see no conflict between religious faith (as you call it) and scientific fact (as I call it). Unfortunately, I have a feeling we differ on what constitutes "scientific fact." For example...
sci·ence –noun
1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
3. any of the branches of natural or physical science.
The word "science" is from the Latin "to know." I see nothing in the Theory of Evolution that has anything to do with "knowing" anything. It is all about presumption.
2007-10-31 00:22:08 · answer #8 · answered by ♫DaveC♪♫ 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Two completely different concepts will never reach a middle point. Impossible!
The faithful will not hear anything They are literally told what to think and if it does not follow dogma then its wrong.
Science keeps on investigating, which means it finds better things and better theories all the time. It's not cut and dry.
When you are wrong in science - it is ok and is usually welcomed because something new and exciting is on the horizon.
Religion, Nope. Wrong. It's the way of a dogma that is 2000 years old. End of subject.
2007-10-31 00:25:54 · answer #9 · answered by Tricia R 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
I have no problem reconciling science with religion.
G-d would have been the senior scientist, after all.
As for creation. B'ersheit ('genesis') was the last of the Torah books to be written, and was not meant to be taken as literally as it is by some.
2007-10-31 00:22:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋