Americans God over Science?

Question

Thing is that all the time, when there's a Natural Disaster like New Orleans I don't hear people saying much about "We should have listened to the scientists and strengthened the leaves" but instead when interviewed they say, "We should pray to god more so this doesn't happen again" and they talk about praying more than using scientific defense.

Thanks Big Bad Pig.
What I mean is that scientists said "Strengthen the leaves" and some Christians, but most people only talked about god more than leaves.
They said it's because they were sinners or they didn't pray enough they god hit, not because of the leaves.

Answer 1

Funny thing, I was watching a story on the Discovery channel back in 2003 I believe that was pointing out the glaring inefficiencies of the levees and pumps in New Orleans, and how just a category 2 hurricane would have catastrophic effects.

Katrina was category 3, and look what happened. Add to that, the mayor had his head up his rear end the entire week leading up to the event, and told people that they only had to evacuate if they wanted to.

That storm was documented a killer.

Their defenses were at risk.

That storm's intense damage and the death that resulted was nobody's fault but the people's who stayed in it's path.

Answer 2

I know what you mean and you're raising an interesting point. People are happy to say "Well, God looked out for me because I prayed and the men came in the boats to save me." Does that mean the other victims who died didn't pray hard enough?

Certainly there were a ton of well-deserved accusations after Katrina, but nobody blamed God for sending the hurricane, did they?

Answer 3

timbers, is right on the money.

The mayor of New Orleans boo-hooed about what the GOP didn't do for him, but the guy doesn't have an IQ as big as his shoe size to use the city and county school buses to get the people of New Orleans out of town.

2,000 school buses went to the junk yard because the mayor didn't have someone from the GOP holding his hand telling him what to do.

Answer 4

At first I thought this was question about eveloution or natural selection.Let me first say I do believe in God. Now let me say that praying to God is a last resort! Science first-religion second!

Answer 5

A small vocal minority might believe in God and dismiss science.

Another small vocal minority might believe in science and dismiss God.

But the large majority of U.S. citizens and people around the world believe in God and in the mission of science to discover God's creation.

Both the common sense that God has given and the facts that science provides tell us that any city below sea level and near the sea can never be fully safe.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

This is kind of like when an athlete attributes his success to God. I would presume the other team has religious people too,so why favor one side more?

There's the economic side, too. Prayer costs even less than email.

Answer 7

True Christianity encourages the use of both the heart and the mind in building faith that pleases God. I am including some information from a couple of links I am sending you and I hope this will help with your thoughts about this topic.

When inviting his listeners to reflect on his teaching, Jesus often said: "What do you think?" (Matthew 17:25; 18:12; 21:28; 22:42) In like manner, the apostle Peter wrote to fellow believers in order to 'arouse their clear thinking faculties.' In fact you have done a similar thing by asking this question. Here is an examle of Jesus doing this very thing:

Matthew 18:12 says:
12 “What do YOU think? If a certain man comes to have a hundred sheep and one of them gets strayed, will he not leave the ninety-nine upon the mountains and set out on a search for the one that is straying?

I think that your question is an interesting one and it takes some reflection to come to an answer. Here at Matthew 22:37-40 it tells us that we must love God with our whole heart, soul and mind:

Matthew 22:37 says:
37 He said to him: “‘You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment.

39 The second, like it, is this, ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets.”

If you reason on this it shows that it takes our mental faculties to be able to reason on what it is we must do.

In fact at Romans 12:1,2 the apostle Paul exhorted them to do this very thing:

1 Consequently I entreat YOU by the compassions of God, brothers, to present YOUR bodies a sacrifice living, holy, acceptable to God, a sacred service with YOUR power of reason. 2 And quit being fashioned after this system of things, but be transformed by making YOUR mind over, that YOU may prove to yourselves the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

If you reason upon the scriptures above it makes sense that God has given us the power of reason and a wonderfully made mind to be able to do these things. He would expect us to use it to make a good decision such as maybe physically strengthening the levy's but having a good relationship with our heavenly father, we should also make things of every nature of concern to us a matter of prayer.

The second part of the scripture at Matther 22:39 says to love our neighbor. It would be a matter of having love for others to do what was right in order to prevent a disaster if we had it within our means to do so, would it not? Some things are beyond our control such as hurricanes and sunami's, but we can go to our heavenly father in prayer. He may not answer us in the way we expect or at the time we expect, but we can be sure that he is concerned about us and cares for us.Most importantly we need to make sure that what we are asking is in line with his commandments.

Jesus foretold a global campaign of spiritual education that would announce God's incoming Kingdom. He said: "This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end [of the present world, or system] will come."—Matthew 24:14.

We pray for "God's Kingdom to come" in the lords prayer and for a certainty the things foretold in the bible will come about. Let us all diligently seek understanding so that we can be ready for the end of Satan's wicked system of things where there is no more tears, no more pain, no more dying.



Search For God With Your Heart And Mind
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20020401/article_02.htm

Answer 8

Science is the study of God's creation, but people have turned science into whatever they want and use it against God. Evolution is a perfect example.

Answer 9

"All the time"? Funny, most people I know (Christians) said "gee, they should have strengthened those levees." Prayer was for those affected by the hurricane and damage. Where do you get this stuff?

Answer 10

We should have listened to the one's who said don't build there in the first place. It is by depending on science to stop the water that got people in trouble to start with.