how much time is left for religion as more things are being discovered?

Question

Everything they've ever "known" has been proven to be wrong. A thousand years ago everybody knew as a fact, that the earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. I would say more scientific things but it seems the more complicated the words get and fancy things being thrown into an argument they (majority) just throw in the towel, I mean book of faith that they believe in and quote from there.
Anyways, the more things are discovered and become common knowledge, will faith become more and more hard to come by with all the answers being found?

thebigm57:
kind of how I feel, why not just believe god as an idea and believe with out forming a religion out of it.
as for purpose and why are we here stuff, I know mine, I think I know that of mankind, and I didn’t get it from religion.

meg w: my bad, "faith in religion and god" is what i ment

JBT: simple, people have looked to the stars and studied it long before the creation of the bible. they discovered it before science was known as science and merely put it into philosophy and superstition of god. many believe as such that the Aztec calendar that will end in 2012 is actually the mark of a new era as scientists have discovered that our solar system is about to make an orbit around our galaxy at that time.

cgi I need not challenge you for you wont believe anything I say or what the scientific community says anyway. when we look at people like you we know there is no point in trying to convince a blind man what colors are.

Answer 1

You are right! This is why there are all kinds of new pseudo-religions. Religion has to adapt to explain new evidence or else they risk looking foolish and behind the times. Unfortunately, even though old religions will be left behind if they don't adapt, there will always be new ones popping up to fill in the voids that people need filled. It's takes a lot of bravery to think that there is no afterlife and there is no higher power looking out for you, and so people will always be looking for a religion to give them some kind of supernatural meaning to their lives.

Answer 2

I feel everything that can be proven will. Center of the universe, earth is flat, evolution...these can be proven. Even the big bang might be fully proven some day. But until science can prove why human beings have a consciousness that is different from all other animals (which science itself even says there is no such thing as a one time occurence, basically nothing is special) or how the big bang started if there was nothing, I have religion to fill in the gaps. My gaps are scientifically based, they are the big questions. I don't have a gap in whether homosexuality is natural, I believe, like earth is round, it can be proven. But I don't think there is anyway to get around something can never come out of nothing and matter can never be created or destroyed in a way to sufficiently describe the start of the universe without God.

Answer 3

In 1916, it was believed that the Universe was static, that it was unchanging.

And then Edwin Hubble discovered the red shift of starlight and determined that galaxies were moving apart. The Big Bang theory was developed, then confirmed.

And all along the Bible had said that the Universe started in one moment and was spread (and continues to be spread out) by God. The Bible, written by ignorant, nearly illiterate people without science, suddenly looked pretty sharp on this subject.

While there are some scientific theories that contradict some biblical stories, there has never been a confirmed scientific discovery that refutes the Bible. In particular, archaeology confirms, again and again, the Bible's accuracy.

It's a mystery to me why you'd think that anyone with both Biblical and scientific knowledge would discount the Bible. Only those who have a bias against the Bible would ignore its incredible accuracy.

Answer 4

Actually the more things that are discovered, the more concrete God is. The more complicated things get the more difficult it is to believe in evolution. I don't know where you get the idea that everything religious is being proven wrong. Science has been proving God and the Bible to be very real and true. Unless of course, you want to ignore the truth so you don't have to believe in God. I challenge you to prove me wrong instead of just saying things here that mean nothing.

Answer 5

December 21, 2012 ;)

Answer 6

That is just it-FAITH. Faith is always hard to come by if you are never willing to trust that man doesn't have all the answers and will not find them all. You obviously do believe that man will find the all the answers through science-so you have faith in that.

Answer 7

As long as humanity and individuals contained therein long for purpose or meaning religion will remain a force to recon with. It's just unfortunate that we can't agree what to believe and can't get over our particular belief system being "best" and trying to get others to believe as we do. Happy Holidays!

Answer 8

obtrusive troll is obtrusive. yet that aside, I in no way had a faith. questioning of fixing right into a member of Shinto, nevertheless. warm babes and father or mom animal spirits ftw. in line with probability i will grow to be an Airbending Nomad, nevertheless. Flying and air-blasts are astounding. Or Pastafarian, because of the fact a minimum of there is data that spaghetti exists.

Answer 9

Any religion that directly disputes Science will probably fall, as their beliefs become more and more outdated.

Thankfully, my religion goes hand-in-hand with Science, rather than against it.

Answer 10

Hopefully you are correct, I am just afraid that some faithful people will get their hands on nuclear weapons before it can come to pass.