When your religion cowers like a little girl before science, is that a sign that it's bogus?

Answer 1

That four marks distinguish Christ's kingdom of heaven on earth. They are made known in the Creed—"I believe in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church."



One in:

Faith
Belief
Worship
Government


Holy In:

Origin, Christ.
Objective, redemption.
Means, sacraments.
Sanctity of faithful.


Catholic :

Teaches all nations.
During all time.
All Christ taught.
Peoples of all nationalities obedient to one universal authority in faith and morals.


Apostolic :

Founded upon apostles.
Teaches what apostles Apostolic taught.
Continuous existence from time of the apostles.
"The enemies of the Church themselves die and disappear, but the Church itself lives on, and preaches the power of God to ever succeeding generations" (St. Augustine).

Peace Be With You

Answer 2

True religion will not cower in front of Science, because Science can be easily learned. However, I have seen scientist cower in fear before powerful sorcerers. True religion is not that weak.

Answer 3

Science and religion complement one another. Neither should "cower" before the other. Religion's purpose is to worship and serve God; science's purpose is to investigate and describe God's Creation.

By the way, if you see little girls as "cowering," you are one sick soul.

Answer 4

No; it means that science is a bully.

Where was your science when 3,500 years ago Moses directed the children of Israel to circumcise their sons on the eight day? Based on linear programming and with the two factors 'blood-clotting ability' and 'disease-fighting ability' against time, the EIGHT day is the optimal time.

And just when did science learn of bacteria and virus in the spread of disease so that quarantine can be used to control disease? Again, check out Moses.

And I can go on with a quite a few more of this type of situation.

Answer 5

I would say that was a good sign, yes. But since Christianity doesn't cower like a little girl before science,that means it isn't bogus.

Scientists of the Christian Faith: A Presentation of the Pioneers, Practitioners and Supporters of Modern Science
Compiled by W. R. Miller

Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. For the rest of his credentials, click on the link here: http://www.genome.gov/10000980. Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/collins.html, in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

"I think there's a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

"Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it's rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, 'Faith is actually plausible.' You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone."

Answer 6

Let's put it this way: that little girl has been cowering for quite a long time.

Answer 7

Absolutely. It's amazing that people don't see that. Look at all the times science has proved religion wrong (i.e. that the Earth is the center of the universe).

Answer 8

I have to be fair, I've not seen them cowering. Blustering, prevaricating and picking selectively what they want to hear, but not actually cowering.

Answer 9

What? Anyway, I take the Bible and Jehovah overe science any day.

For example, science says man has been on earth millions of years; according to Bible chronolgy, we have been here only 6,000 years.

Science teaches evolution, Bible teaches creation.

Answer 10

In most circumstances, I would guess, yeah.