Did you know most christians don't claim they're against science, they say creation is science?

Answer 1

well, as I mentioned in an early post, it was a catholic priest/ professor of physics, named Monsignor Georges Lemaître, who came up with the big bang theory during a time that put him at odds with Einstein who was promoting a static universe theory (which was later proved wrong).

In fact most of the great universities in the western world were founded by religious institutions.

My father has a Ph D, and is a research professor at a university, so I grew up around scientist, I would say that the majority have a religion in one form or another or at least a belief in some kind of god.... So I would say your statement is true

Answer 2

Not many Catholics I've come across believe that the Biblical story of creation is meant to be understood as science.

Religion is religion. Science is science. These two disciplines have very different aims, methods, and approaches. It is possible to accept the theological implications of the creation story, without accepting the account as representing scientific fact.

The trouble with confusing religion and science is that these two disciplines have a different stance toward _truth_. In religion, much of the truth is revealed to us by God directly, and with His help, we reason out the rest. Science, however, does not concern itself with revealed truth - the job of science is to create a model that can explain certain facts. If facts are brought to light that the current model doesn't explain, the model is to be revised or discarded in favor of one that better expains the facts.

So, in science "the truth" doesn't really exist; instead, the answers (models) are ever shifting and changing as our observations accumulate.

The revealed truth of God is that He created the universe and all that is in it, including men and women. The details of the manner in which His Creation took place represents a suitable field of inquiry for scientists, who approach the question with a series of replaceable scientific models, each approaching ever more closely the reality of how this happened, yet probably none finally matching that reality to perfection.

Answer 3

No. Most Christians (except in the US) reject Literal Biblical Creation. Further, the ones who call it science are lying. That's what Creationists do: lie.

Answer 4

Yeah, they ignore the parts they can't retro fit into the bible (though I've seen some real laughers about the origins of the universe).

It is entertaining, though, like that poster whose avatar is the north end of a southbound mule, asking about evolution. So sure of himself!

Science moves at a slow pace, sure, like the steady-state universe being defended until his death by Fred Hoyle, but the evidence is still studied.

Answer 5

What you know and what you think is very wrong. it is a very wrong idea and contents.
Rom 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written. The just shall live by faith.
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
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Answer 6

They like science when it proves their religion. Or they consider it proves their religion. Like the Bible, they selectively pick the bits they like, and pretend the rest don't exist.

Answer 7

Yes, we know... that discussion comes up approximately every 37 seconds on R&S.

Answer 8

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I do not claim that I am against science! It is your presumption!!

Come on to my surgical table, see if I will take out your appendix, or even your piles; according to the guidelines of the colleges of surgeons in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ireland and England or according to the American Surgical Society guidelines...........

I do it scientifically..........give you antibiotics, analgesics....hey...is that not scientific?? Just that I do not subscribe to theories.....of evolution, big bang.....

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Answer 9

yes. it's called denial.