True or False... Was Religion was created in the absence of Science?

Question

Remember...the Church preached that God had put the Earth in the center of the universe. When it was proved wrong,the Church had Copernicus held under house arrest to prevent his discoveries from ruining the Gospel that was being taught. Religion has always repressed knowledge that conflicted with dogma!

Answer 1

True.

Humans have been using religion as an explanation for things they did not have the capability of discovering themselves ever since the start of human history. It was primarily because of a lack of tools and the daily struggle for survival. Once civilizations became more advanced and the struggle for life became less difficult, we were able to turn our attention to the mechanics of the world around us more and more.

But we still cling to the old, Bronze-Age religions. Even though many of the ideas they had about how the world worked turned out to be wrong.

Answer 2

Offcials of the Church ABUSED their authority of infallibility at that time. It was NEVER considered an infallible teaching that the earth was the center of the universe. They hid behind this authority to teach a lot of things that were not really covered under this authority. They usurped authority they did not have. Now days, we know pretty much what is covered and what is not covered and even challenge the Church to back up some of its present day teachings by such authority. The Church accepted this challenge when it declared the dogma of the Trinity an article of faith even before the above incident. Later, she sometimes got carried away with this abuse of power masking a thin line between what is infallible and what is not considered as such.

Answer 3

There is another side to the story of course. Christianity provided the foundation for science to develop where the Greek, Roman and Asian cultures could not. The consensus among contemporary historians, philosophers and sociologists of science that real science arose only once: in Europe. The leading scientific figures in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were overwhelmingly devout Christians who believed it their duty to comprehend God's handiwork.

One should ask then, "Why there?" The answer is simple; The Christian God was rational, responsive, dependable and omnipotent and the universe was His personal creation in which His divine nature was put on display for man's benefit and instruction.

Fast forward to today: The world of cosmology, physics, astronomy, biochemistry, biology and other sciences are rapidly showing that the evidence of a Creator of the universe is piling up. That religious diversity amongst scientists today, in and of itself, does much to dispel the notion that science and religion are in conflict. Perhaps most importantly, scientists today are aware that science itself is limited. Science is competent to answer questions about how matter behaves according to the laws of nature, but science is not competent to answer the question of whether or not the laws of nature have a Lawgiver

Answer 4

False -

Religion developed out of a need for the communal ritualized expression of the collective unconscious. While religion sometimes tries to tread on the world of 'facts' ... it is a fools folly to do so.

Religion is not, nor intended to be a source of factual information. It is as poor a replacement for science as science is for religion.

Answer 5

True, religion was often created to answer fundamental questions. For example, the creation and nature of the universe, the difference between man and woman, the nature of mankind, etc., are questions that have plagued mankind for thousands of years and still do today.

CC: I respectfully disagree with you -- "science" is relatively new and modern. Although humankind made discoveries a long time ago (thousands of years ago), science is a discipline. "Alchemy", although it lead to "chemistry", was not a "science", even though "alchemy" did accidentally lead to discoveries.

Answer 6

False. Religion was created in the absence of knowledge.

Science is only a tool to gather knowledge.

Answer 7

True. People were ignorant and knew nothing of the world in the early days, so they concocted religion to explain it all. It's amazing people still believe in religious teachings.

Answer 8

Very foundation of these religions is ignorance and don't you know these two most followed religions were invented in middle est the land of chaos and ignorance.

Answer 9

True

Answer 10

Whew, good thing the Bible did not say any of that!