Do you think the world would be better with just science or with just religion--or something else? If something else, what? And whatever your choice, why?
2007-11-29 07:56:19 · 11 answers · asked by Captain Ireland 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Religious belief is based on faith and strong faith persists despite or in the face of logic or science.
2007-11-29 08:01:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think it depends how the world got that way, because even though I'm not religious and would already be going along with science, I'm sure others wouldn't see it that way. But if it just magically happened to be either science or religious, I think I might favor having a mix like we already do because I love science, but hearing about peoples religion is pretty interesting. One of my friends is Buddhist :) Also, I think that a good factor in not having religion would be no fighting over religion or trying to convert people. But there are a lot of fights over every kind of topic. So, I can't have everything.
2007-11-29 16:07:07 · answer #2 · answered by wilgilb1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Science is a gift to discover God - they compliment each other in unimaginable ways. There are things that science has proved that show amazing design - organs and parts and chemicals that work together in such a complex way, it is hard to say that there is something other than an immensely powerful and brilliant being behind it all - God, of course. The Bible was not written as a science textbook - it was written by God through prophets to show us how to live our lives - if we point to, say, Genesis, and say how ridiculous it is, it is not only pointless, but wrong (as Genesis is most probably symbolic). The first scientists were Christian, and some of the finest today are Christian's as well. With their deep understanding os science and genes and all this complex material, how could they keep this faith that still says that men were brought from dust? Because they realize that the more you know about our world, the obvious it is that God created it, made is so that everything works in harmony (if are you religious, you know that all the things that are unnatural and are not good at all, such as wars and tsunamis, are due to the Fall, when man disobeyed God). You cannot ever say with complete certainty that there is no God, because there are things that are unexplainable, miracles, that are performed every day. How did this man survive this inevitably fatal disease? How did all the falling rocks miss this one family? There are countless accounts of hardcore atheists becoming Christians because they heard the voice of God, or saw a glimpse of heaven. There is another, more powerful, most perfect God out there, and he gave us minds to find out more about the amazing world we live in. It is nothing short of blatant treachery to assume that we know more than he does about our world, that he doesn't exist because the very gift he gave us - science - has proved him obsolete. He gave us minds to create science - science to bring about a better understanding of our world. Faith and science dovetail, and if they are thought to disprove each other, it is wrong.
2007-11-29 17:37:56 · answer #3 · answered by sahire 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Religion was made to have a balance in this world, to have answers for questions that are left in the open. They are like folklores that are meant to satisfy the urge to block an open question until such time that science would finally present a factual answer.
2007-11-29 16:17:23 · answer #4 · answered by keala_kei 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think something else, and that something else is what we have. No one demands anyone must lose their faith. Yet I believe in G-d, and that does not challenge my believe the theory that science brings out. Yes, many of the theories I believe in too. Works good this way. I want to keep it.
2007-11-29 16:13:17 · answer #5 · answered by Songbyrd JPA ✡ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not JUST science, but we can keep science, art, philosophy and literature and I'd be fine without any religion whatsoever.
2007-11-29 17:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by Sophrosyne 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The two are based on separate things. Science is based on induction and experimentation and is conducted in spite of the paradigm. Religion is based on faith and acceptance, and is conducted in spite of induction and experimentation.
The two are diametrically opposed and it's tough to say one will ever eliminate the other.
2007-11-29 16:26:54 · answer #7 · answered by aaron.brake 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you believe in science, then it already has disproved religion. If you have (blind) faith, then it never will.
2007-11-29 16:24:44 · answer #8 · answered by Useless Pop Culture Reference 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
when i was a child i beleved in father christmas, we as the human race believe in the heavenly father. but dont you think jesus had an alternative to slavery and in fact we are on that system today god as the "pharoh"
2007-11-29 16:25:05 · answer #9 · answered by lucifer 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
something else.
what? the understanding of both.
i believe that scientific "fact" (if thats what you want to call it) will eventually PROVE the existence of god.
but before that happens, we have got to understand they both exist.
2007-11-29 16:03:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋