Why is science looked down upon by believers?

Question

With such things as evolution, the big bang, and the age of the earth, MOST scientist agree on certain facts and/or theories that help explain the natural laws of the universe.
I would just like to know that, why dont MOST believers support scientist findings and explantions.

Answer 1

Many see science as directly opposed to their view of the world. If they believe that God created Earth, etc. etc., then evolution, big bang, etc, are directly opposed to that.

Answer 2

It boils down to a core problem of Christianity. Gravity was a problem as was heliocentrism, both were very damaging. However evolution and the big bang would be fatal to many forms of Christianity if not all of it.

Evolution is bigger than the Big Bang because it has more profound implications. Let us pretend, for a moment, that dinosaurs really existed 65 million years before homo sapiens sapiens, plus or minus a few years. That means dinosaurs lived AND died before any conceivable Adam and Eve could have existed. The core Jewish and Christian belief out of the Genesis stories is that death entered the world through sin. Because of Eve's sin, death happens. If this is not true, if death simply happens and people do actions that other people deem evil (even if they do not deem it evil), then there isn't an "original sin" to be redeemed from. Man was not expelled from Paradise. Death is just natural. If death is part of the natural order, then Jesus was not only unnecessary he was tragically wrong. If he was wrong, then he isn't God. Further, all this money donated to churches is being donated to the wrong thing. There are people who have devoted nearly every waking moment of their adult life to Jesus of Nazereth. It is completely emotionally unacceptable to them to be wrong because it means everything they have done is a waste of time. Human beings are loss averse, strongly loss averse if you look at the economic and psychological literature. Science is saying their life is a lost use of resources. It is very important to their psychological well being that they are not only right but that they are on God's side, which presumes all their beliefs are the true beliefs. Otherwise, not only do have they wasted their life, but lost the afterlife too, and supposedly they value this more than life itself.

Most people are not directly exposed to the evidence of science even in high school science, so they do not have to really confront the hard facts. There are very few scientists either as percentage or in numbers that reject the facts of science. If many did, neither gravity nor evolution would be theories, they would still be hypothesis.

Answer 3

The bible speaks to science. In the book of Daniel, it teaches us that Daniel was knowledgeable in science, as were the other Hebrew children. So we know that all science is not wrong. However, it also teaches us that a lot of what is called science is falsely so-called. (I Timothy 6:20).

The bible teaches us that medicine is good for us, and indeed it has proven to be a great help to mankind in many ways. However, medicine has also been used destructively, with many new procedures and inventions that Christians cannot abide. The bible teaches us in Ecclesiastes that God made man upright, but that he has sought out many inventions. Some of these inventions have to do with science, some not, some are just part of man's perverted nature.

I do not think there is that much of a difference in science's view on the creation and the bible,with the exception of the creation of man. The big bang could very well have happened. The bible states that one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day with God. So it is possible that the six days God took to create the heavens and the earth were not the same as what we see as six days today. There was no calendar. So it is possible that the earth is many thousands of years old. But that does not mean it was not created by God.

Answer 4

I am a Christian and I went through a time when I was looking into science and all that jazz that Atheist like to boast about.
Then I found that a lot of science is not correct. A lot of science really isn't science but rather theory. A lot of scientist disagree with each other on things. I also found that scientist will believe one thing and then some evidence will come along and prove them wrong about something then they will believe that new thing. They have been certain about things than blame something comes along and they are uncertain. How do we know that something they are certain about now is not soon going to be proved that it isn't right.
The bottom line is that science is brought on about by man. We all know how dumb man is. How our desires and wants get in the way even when we dont mean for them to.

I do agree with a lot of science though that is very evident. Like gravity and anatomy. Things like that.

Answer 5

We don't have a problem with real science, in fact, most of the scientific disciplines we have were started by Christians (Newton, Keppler, etc.). But, evolution is not empirical science, neither is the big bang or millions of years. None of these have been observed, tested, retested, or falsified in a scientific laboratory. They are based on the evidence, the same evidence we have. It is a matter of interpreting the evidence based on your presuppositions and world view. We simply look at the evidence and decide what makes the most sense, much like a legal case. We believe special creation and a young earth makes the most sense considering the evidence.

Answer 6

I believe the bible to be true from cover to cover. I don't disagree with science. Evolution has nothing to do with science. It is a made up theory that will keep changing. The bible on the other hand will stay the same. It says Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away ...
The majority is not always right. All the proof for Evolution has either been proven wrong or is misinterpreted.

Answer 7

people don't believe their faith can coexist with science.. personally I'm a believer, but I also recognize science as having made some great discoveries.. as believers, we can't just put our heads in the sand, or we'll just end up looking foolish.. back when science first told us that the Earth revolves around the sun (not the other way around) people said that it was heresy.. now we know it's true.. we don't know 100% for certain that evolution and the big bang are true yet, but we need to be open to the possibility.. the way I see it, evolution and the big bang could just be the methods God used when He created life and the universe..

Answer 8

Much of what science has discovered has been tremendously helpful to mandkind and doesn't conflict with many religous beliefs. However on the flip side there are also several things that science supports although unproven that totally goes against religion in general, depending on what religion you speak of. More or less scientist are totally on their own level and do not consider anything that they don't believe or can't prove to be real.

Answer 9

I don't look down on science and I am a fundie! The fact of the matter is, most of what science believes to be true about the topics that you mentioned are just the best explanation we have right now and will probably be added to, taken away from, or completely changed or disregarded in the future as more things become apparent. So, it isn't that we look down on science, it's just that we choose to put off jumping on the "this is the final truth of science and is how it has to be" bandwagon until it is PROVEN to be true.

Answer 10

They really cannot prove evolution, the big bang or where aids came from but guess what, God knows everything but I do not look down on science I just test the spirits in all things

Answer 11

They might be afraid that what they belive with there hearts for so many years is nothing but a big lie. This is what I have come up with that may help them.

Lets say that god did infact create the universe. In this creation he has set down a set of natural laws (energy, matter, time, adaptation, etc). Life and the universe progresses according to those laws. Therefor there is no problem in trying to find out how god made it work, that is why we have free will (made in his image) and we are not animals.

Otherwise I just ignore the religious types.