Is science on the side of Christianity or Atheism?

Question

The Big Bang Theory in favor of Christians or Atheists?

Answer 1

I do not believe that science has ever contradicted Christianity, therefore it is on the side of Christianity. It is also on the side of athiests as they only believe in what science tells them without the extra elements that religion adds.

The Big Bang Theory is accepted by both Christians and athiests. The big bang theory says that the universe was created when a dense core of energy exploded and turned into matter which created the Universe. Christians believe that this is a highly possible way that God created the Universe. However, athiests believe that nothing created this dense core as there was nothing before it. This is where I have a problem with athiest logic. If science believes that all matter must be created, and the big bang theory starts with matter, doesn't that mean that there had to be something before to create it? Christians believe that this was God, who has no beginning and therefore does not need to be created. It takes just as much faith to be an athiest as it does to be a Christian, only they don't seem to admit to it.

Here is a video that may explain it better than I have. Although this man is Islamic, they believe in th same beginning as Christians and Jews so this is relevant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2uoVneutyk

Answer 2

Science is about what we can discover. Religion is about what we believe. Atheism is religion. Theology is science.

How our present universe came about is something that has occupied the minds of religion and science for thousands of years. The first 2 chapters of Genesis are accounts of the state of scientific thinking from around 100BC (Chapter 1) and 500BC (Chapter 2).

Big bang is the current vogue - but it is a theory that was ridiculed by scientists only 50 years ago. The name was coined by Professor Fred Hoyles whose views on its adherents are much the same as those the scientific community now have of Creationists.

Christians - and most other religions - believe that God created the universe. Science does not seek to disprove that. The role of science is to show how it was achieved.

In a few hundred years' time, there will be new theories and new arguments. We will still have the followers of Calvin who believe that Chapter 1 of Genesis is literally true (but for some odd reason, not Chapter 2). We will have the followers of Dawkins who believe in selfish genes and big bangs. And we will have a new group of self-styled atheists who condemn both camps as being ancient superstition. None of this has anything to do with Christianity.

Answer 3

Neither. Christianity and atheism are both concepts that revolve around God ( a certain religion that worships a Creator, and a belief that said Creator doesn't exist). The concept of God rests entirely in the world of the supernatural, and thus, by definition, is completely removed from the field of science. If anything, the Big Bang Theory probably finds its strongest kinship with the agnostic.

Answer 4

The Big Bang Theory, which is the idea that everything we have today - the earth, sun, planets, humans, plants, animals - everything was just a giant accident. that's science. Athiests would believe in that because to them, basically, there is no God and the universe just "happened." Therefore they believe in nothing and life has no meaning to them.

Most of Science and the Big Bang Theory is associated by the beliefs of atheists. Christians believe in the Creation by God of the universe and all things living.

Answer 5

Science is not on either side. It is a pursuit for knowledge through observation and rational deduction.

However, it is not true to say it has nothing to say on religion. Most real religious claims are perfectly capable of scientific test, though this is usually strenuosly resisted by the religious.

This was the source of much tension 100 to 200 years ago as science refuted one assertion after another of the church. This even led to the Pope imprisoning one of the greatest scientists of his age - Galileo - for not following the church orthodoxy on what the Bible teaches.

Of course, Galileo was amply proved right.

So in that sense, Christianity has been proved repeatedly wrong by science for more than 2 centuries. Its recourse has been to try to define two domains - physical and spiritual - and to claim that science has nothing to say about the spiritual and it has nothing to say about the physical.

This breaks down, for instance, with evolution where some church dogma is to deny the science. In reality the proof of evolution is overwhelming, and once again Christianity just looks like stupid nonsense.

But it also falls down because the spiritual claims are perfectly capable of scientific test in many cases. A good example is the claim that prayer is answered. Double blind testing of the kind used in drugs research can easily prove if this is true or not - and this has been done. The results, once again, prove overwhelmingly that the claims of Christianity are simply false.

Answer 6

The Big Bang was proposed by a Catholic Priest.

Science is not concerned with proving the non-existence of anything, so that takes it out of atheism's camp.

Science can not prove the existence of an omnipresent entity, due to the impossibility of devising a test with a control where God does not exist, so that takes it out of religion's camp.

Hope that helps.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Science is on the side of reality. Fortunately, atheists acknowledge reality and hence generally accept science (generally, but not always... there's the occasional atheist, I'm sure, who doesn't believe in gods AND doesn't go for the whole "empirical evidence" thing either, though that would be one very strange atheist).

Answer 9

If God is true, than religion should embrace science. Didn't God create reason? I would think he or she would want us to explore all avenues. Just because a person believes in the big bang doesn't mean they are damned to hell.

Answer 10

If scientists are so smart, why can't they turn water into wine??

*chuckle*

Seriously, I would go with Atheists on both questions.
Even though I don't think science or religion (or atheism) has done a very good job of explaining the universe.