Science and God?

Question

Science: the study of nature, the universe, the physical world.
God: not nature, the universe, or the physical world.
So why do atheists want to disprove God with science? Clearly the two are not compatible. Or do you think that science is the be-all end-all, and there is no power other than it?

Eiliat, how can you say there is no such thing as something supernatural? That's the whole point. If there were, science couldn't detect it, therefore you couldn't prove it.

Answer 1

Martin and Scott make excellent points.

I've been saying for years that a correct interpretation of the Bible will always agree with a correct view of science.

When in the course of history it has ever appeared to some that this was not true, as time went on Science eventually proved that the Bible had been correct all along.

Pastor Art

Answer 2

It all started when the scientists tried to butt into the theologians back yard. The Bible thumpers say..that God spoke and the Universe leaped into existence in 6 days. The scientists tried to do them one better and came up with the Big Bang Theory where they say the universe instantly came from a tiny compact speck of matter...Kinda reminds me when I trained a flea to jump on command..I tried an experiment by removing the legs..I yelled "Jump" and the flea just looked at me. Someone told me the flea couldn't jump because it had no legs..I told him that based on my expert observations, obviously, the flea had gone deaf.. I don't see how the guy can be so stupid..being that we both observed the same event..How could he come up with a different conclusion?

Answer 3

Bro, if you believe in science then match a holy book that talks about science... then yu have to admit that this is the religion which is true and there is only one god......Cause these discoveries have been made recently but the holy books have been revealed centuries ago.. so you can be definite on them.......And how can you find a method to find a creator.. no way .. this is insult to god .. which is unfavorable to him....

Answer 4

God created nature, the universe, physical world.

Answer 5

I think Dr Collins explains it well.

Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. For the rest of his credentials, click on the link here: http://www.genome.gov/10000980. Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/collins.html, in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

"I think there's a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

"Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it's rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, 'Faith is actually plausible.' You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone."

Answer 6

Anything that is part of the universe can be detected. There is no such thing as the supernatural. If a deity exists, it can be detected through some method.

Answer 7

Science is the art of figuring out how God's creation works. They're totally compatible.

Answer 8

They can coexist, but by using science we can see from what religions used to believe compared to now and use what we know about the universe to say that god is very unlikely, and that it is deffinatelly not what religion tells us.

Answer 9

The God Yahweh is a scientist who created what we see and don't see by way of His awareness of stepped forward fields of technology that many are nevertheless unknown to mankind right this moment. faith developed from the lack of mankind's clinical awareness to describe what God has carried out by way of His stepped forward clinical awareness.

Answer 10

Science and scientific mind is limited with logic, faith is not bound and limited with logic; faith and God is transcendental and limitless..............