If so, does it alarm you that religious people see the world as something else than the reality of what their earthly senses tell them? Isnt science all we 'really have' to go on?
2007-12-09 11:27:25 · 13 answers · asked by peaco1000 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
how can anything advance without a vision ...
2007-12-09 11:29:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It can be. Or "magical thinking" as I like to call it. There's some magical guy in the sky that'll fix things so we don't have to. It's a pacifier, "Don't get angry at or try to stop that person who wronged you. He'll get his in hell." Or "God will just put that right person into my life and I don't have to do anything special to meet them."
But other people seem to have a more grounded approach to it and see God as taking care of the things they can't.
Science, when practiced properly, is a discipline of learning and discovering. It, like religion, can also be misused. If we put too much faith in our theories and laws we can also blind ourselves.
I like the statement that science just answers the "how" questions, not the "why" questions. Our models and theories DESCRIBE and PREDICT reality, but are not substitutes for it. A magnetic field, for example, is a concept that is helpful when making calculations of forces between electric currents. Some, however, make the jump to thinking this is an actual, physical thing.
So, what I am saying is that science is a powerful tool to help us learn about, work with, and predict reality. But it isn't all-powerful. There's still the why questions. There's still the mystery of why every scientific model falls just a bit short of perfectly describing reality, and has conditions where it doesn't work at all.
Humans are capable of magical thinking. I think it's a survival tool. When our logical mind tells us that things look hopeless, our magical thinking kicks in and gives us hope in the face of no hope. And, who knows, sometimes our logical mind is wrong about the hopelessness. And the magical thinking can save us where we would have given up.
2007-12-09 19:52:16 · answer #2 · answered by LG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a little strange when you look at things from a scientific perspective. I believe that religion is just a hope in the afterlife. There is no scientific proof that there is one. Probably never will be. I don't care what people believe and I won't try to make them see things my way. It's a waste of time.
2007-12-09 19:37:42 · answer #3 · answered by syn_country 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not religious, I'm a believer. My spiritual senses outweigh my earthly senses. I don't know much about science. I know a few things about spirituality/God. People like me, well, you will have to be on the inside of us to understand us. Be good to you.
2007-12-09 19:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by IWTK 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wish thinking, yes -- as in, i wish i knew what God wants me to do.
Since the atheist assertion is that the only reality is what we can perceive and measure, is it so hard to consider that the mere act of observation creates our "reality"? That's a dismal thought, that science is all we have. What happened to laughter and art and petting the dog?
2007-12-09 19:53:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible asks readers to leave the world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll and enter the heavenly world of God (the Burning Bush) and Moses' 10 Commandments aka the Kingdom of Heaven.
http://etext.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_bible/index.html
2007-12-09 19:39:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is based on faith believing what is true or not true.
Here is the truth:
Every knee shall bow
Every tongue confess
That Jesus Christ is Lord.
When this happens the world will know the truth and that is God's Word is the only truth.
John 3 16 is the truth.
2007-12-09 19:32:04 · answer #7 · answered by customizedsongwriter Mike McCracken 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
People are very good at believing what they wish were true (or fear might be true) rather than what is actually indicated by reason and evidence. Religion certainly falls into that category.
2007-12-09 19:34:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It may be, it may not be. I'm open to it unless it can be proven false, meaning that I'm tolerant of others' beliefs. But until it can be proven true, science IS all we "really have to go on."
2007-12-09 19:39:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not really because science involves alot of theories. I personally think religion is a way to cope with death.
2007-12-09 19:30:52 · answer #10 · answered by robert p 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NOPE
science is just a thoughts
and trying to make those thoughts reality
and i see the world as it is
and thats NOT MY HOME
2007-12-09 19:30:06 · answer #11 · answered by hghostinme 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋