Is there anybody else who feels an absolute joy and sense wonder and fulfillment when learning about the true scientific reasons for the how the universe and everything that is in it came to be ?
Do you feel an immense sense of wonder and amazement when you contemplate the sky at night and marvel at all we have learnt about our orgins and existance and all that there is still to know ?
Finally do you think that this joy and wonder is far superior to simply accepting ancient dogmatic myths as a way of explaining the world around us
2007-12-07 02:00:29 · 13 answers · asked by Achtung Barry 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why work hard at learning things when you already have the answers. When I repair my car I don't spend days figuring out how a system works, I simply pick up a book and find the answers. We do that in cooking (cookbooks) for example. If you want answers to life, consult the Bible.
2007-12-07 02:14:05 · answer #1 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I'm definitely captivated by what science is helping us discover about our existence, but I think religious folks aren't all necessarily stuck exclusively in their dogma. Some would probably argue that they daily experience something that reinforces their beliefs, whether something tangible like a good deed being done unto them, or intangible like a "vision" from God or something else off the wall that could be a product of their own brain and not something supernatural.
Definitely though props to all the wonders that we uncover, I hope I live long enough to see us get to the point where virtual reality becomes commonplace, where stem cell research is fully utilized, and where antigravity technology becomes as ubiquitous as solar cells.
2007-12-07 02:06:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Achtung Barry (a Nazi?) totally misunderstood Fish's response to this question. So much so, that he wanted to make fun of Fish by symbolically hanging his underwear from a flagpole in this little rant:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071207152234AAHmvUY
My response to his rant got deleted because I took Achtung Barry a little too much to task. Here is the cleaned up version:
>> Do you find this answer from a theist disturbing ?
>> Where are we headed as a society with thinking (or indeed >> non thinking) like this.
Not at all! What is disturbing is your thoughtless reaction to it. The answer given is not about not thinking. Instead, it is a perfect example of why we have advanced so much in the last 200 years. It's called, "taking advantage of what others have learned before us." It sounds like you, on the other hand, would rather spend your whole life re-learning what has already been learned by many other people and, in the end, find that you've learned nothing new in your entire life. How sad.
God bless.
2007-12-08 02:13:07 · answer #3 · answered by ♫DaveC♪♫ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I assume that by "ancient dogmatic myths" you mean scripture. I understand the joy and wonder you mentioned, and I have experienced that. I have also experienced the joy and wonder of my God's presence, and the latter is far superior to the former.
2007-12-07 02:05:53 · answer #4 · answered by joseph8638 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Haven't you ever gone to school and learned a lot of things from books instead of accepting ancient dogma..
Did you invent your own written language.
Did you invent mathematics.
Did you invent your own biological theory
I think that you probably accepted the ancient dogma.
2007-12-07 10:43:18 · answer #5 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
discovering the truth by painstaking investigation and rigorous assay is difficult and slow, and a lifelong commitment.
it is much easier to open a book and find everything you will ever need to know printed out simply for you.
some of us choose diamonds, even though we know we shall never own more than a few.
for most people rhinestones are what they want.
2007-12-07 02:05:08 · answer #6 · answered by synopsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I find absolute joy and a sense of wonder at exploring both science and spirituality - I just avoid religion and other dogmas
2007-12-07 02:03:07 · answer #7 · answered by bregweidd 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't have time to spend on idle speculations, which is all that science has come up with regarding the creation.
Until I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior, the Bible made very little sense to me. I could read it and not know what I had read.
After accepting Jesus as my Lord and Savior, the Bible became open to me and I understood what I was reading.
The scriptures say that the Bible will be foolishness to those who do not believe because the Holy Spirit who interprets the Bible for us is not with us to interpret it until we have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
grace2u
2007-12-07 02:11:21 · answer #8 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
science is a human tool useed to discover and explore the world in and around us. God created the world and all and put man in it, for man to fully enjoy creation he gave him a mind to use to explore and use his surroundings, man called it science which is still limited but God is omni-science, as the creator. man is creative, taking after his maker the creator.
2007-12-09 10:22:40 · answer #9 · answered by bravo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't feel the two contradict each other, so I find joy in them both. But to each his own.
2007-12-07 02:04:39 · answer #10 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋