What do you think about religious people teaching science?

Question

I personally find it rather confusing because the two just don't seem to go together to me. I'm atheist but I respect people and their beliefs. So please don't shun me.

Answer 1

I have no problem with it as long as the teacher can seperate his beliefs from science. I think it's the only ethical thing they could do along with many other carreers like medicine.

Answer 2

I agree that sometimes there could be contradictions if the teacher is a religious fundamentalist, believing that everything in scripture is literally true. (Obviously the biggest problem would be teaching evolution -- an old controversy which is again rearing its ugly head as the election nears.)

But many religious people think of scripture more as a guide to life, to be interpreted as metaphor rather than literal truth. I don't think they would have too much trouble teaching science.

Answer 3

To be personally religious doesn't preclude someone from being a good science teacher. Teaching something other than science, whether it's religion, Shakespeare, or how to do your laundry, would. As long as the teacher is teaching what the teacher is hired to teach, there's no reason they shouldn't do so.

Not everyone who believes in God is a fundamentalist fanatic, though you wouldn't know it from the news.

Answer 4

Well, God revealed to a man of faith secrets of the Star of Bethlehem. And I just watched this DVD. Science & astronomy is complicated for me. But I re watched it a few times.

But I thought it was very well explained. And answered some questions I asked about the star last year. Only this time, I have the date of Jesus conception (September), Jesus birth (June) & the date the Magi found Jesus in a house (December 25 3, BC). Because when you do the scientific study of the time King Jupiter (planet) stopped (When the Magi found Jesus), It stopped on December 25, 3 BC. So? Christmas isn't Jesus birthday, but it is the day the Magi found the baby King & gave Jesus gifts.

Plus also the time Jesus died on the cross.

Jesus birth was a bright & glorious day. Jesus death was an eclips & a blood moon.

Info at http://www.bethlehemstar.net .

Answer 5

All a Christian really has to do to reconcile religion and science is shove the first eleven chapters of Genesis to 'myth' and proceed from there. It's only a small chunk of American Fundamentalist Protestants that really have anything invested in the literal, anti-science angle.

Answer 6

An atheist is not a person connected to beliefs. Proof is merely a calculation of our hopes. An atheist should never have a mind or the power to think. Else, how can we (I) believe in ourselves, as we are just eating and we can not see what is going on in our body, till we believe the Medical Officer, who shows a Computer Monitor and some lines and telling 'this is our heart, this is our lever and this is our anus' and so on. The whole life is just a feeling and what had happened yesterday are merely dreams (won't return again or repeat in the same nature) and what is going to happen tomorrow are merely hopes. Nothing reliable. Now Science is also affected with viruses, by special offers of 'scientifically proved' instruments. Here we need to re-clarify as to 'What is Religion' - are merely some routine style of day-to-day life of a group of socially bound people only based on the geographical strata and availability of infrastructure for meeting their requirement in a socialistic administration, which is the first thing broken on its advent.
Science is a group of principles and reasons for what we see and experience in our day-to-day life. These are meant for merely quenching our thirst for knowledge and satisfaction. (If it so, let it so !) But, if someone says that 'Science has proved.......' the listener would just believe and it has become another tool of the administration for crucifying the humen kind. Each person (body) has very clear and distinctive properties, characteristics, shape, taste, and so on, and there is no two items in its exact resemblance. Now the time has come to make this globe as a single society - the Unity in Diversity - a refurbication. This is my discovery in life - with equal and balanced relationship and distinction among the Nations and Religions and all other human-made bindings that can lead to quarrels and destructions. In fact, SECULARISM is meant for not to give any importance for the religion, caste or colour in the National Administration, but what is seeing is on the contrary. Every religion has special quota summing about 365 National Holidays are to be allotted

Answer 7

They teach what they know the best. Hopefully. It's fine as long as the two don't mix. Like the stegosaurus Adam rode to get the apple. EDIT: I hope prof m reads a book like THE GUIDE. no, not tv guide.

Answer 8

Science and religion really don't have much to do with each other. Science deals with the natural world, while religion deals with the supernatural world. Neither one has any relevant relation to the other.

Answer 9

NO! WTF? I attended a CATHOLIC H.S. (!) and replaced into taught the scientific rationalization. I additionally won finished and extremely specific intercourse ed. i will say this expensive: technological awareness particularly does not clarify how each thing particularly began. the massive Bang required atom(s) and chemical reaction, to not point out the belief of lifestyles: IT does not clarify the place the 1st ATOM got here FROM. technological awareness can not clarify this maximum basic of questions. BTW: verify the style of yank Nobel Winners in technological awareness. and a variety of of alternative American establishments like M.I.T. are extra beneficial than rather much the different in the international.

Answer 10

Not impossible, but there is obvious danger. So long as a boundary is kept between religion and science, there is not necessarily a problem. As soon as that boundary is crossed -- BIG problem.