Documentable. Not second-hand, not double hearsay. For 'science,' read 'rational thought,' 'realism,' or 'nature.' This is not to say that science explains every phenomenon; it doesn't. Show your work.
2007-12-27 08:42:36 · 13 answers · asked by Ron C 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm pretty sure science explains Jesus' face on the side of a building much better than religion.
There is a part of the human brain that "creates" faces out of inanimate objects. Eventually one of these "faces" is bound to look like Jesus or the Mother Mary right?
No miracles just odd occurances.
2007-12-27 08:47:07 · answer #1 · answered by Colonel Obvious AM 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure, like the existence of the entire universe.
Scientifically, either it has ALWAYS existed, or it has NEVER existed. Without God, it can not suddenly START existing. (Let's not use circular reasoning and beg the issue by talking about the "egg" in which everything came from in the big bang. I would then say the same thing about this "egg", because that would have been the universe prior to this "big bang").
Now, if the universe (or the initial "egg") is eternal, then applying the KNOWN and PROVEN laws of science, such as entropy and thermodynamics, we can only conclude that the finite universe would die in a finite amount of time.
If the universe is still here (which, last time I looked, it IS), then that means that the universe isn't old enough to have died out yet.
This implies that the universe isn't eternally existent, thus demonstrating that there was a time when the universe (in what EVER form you care to express) didn't exist.
Look at it like this - if the universe is - oh, say 80 billion years old, then what was here 81 billion years ago? If the universe was here 81 billion years ago, then the universe couldn't be 80 billion years old. Let's move on to 90 billion. How about 100 billion years? No matter how old you say the universe is, I will ask what was here 1 year ago or 1 billion years ago (it doesn't really matter which). Eventually, we get the universe old enough to have died out completely. But, as I pointed out already, the last time I looked, the universe is still here.
This implies that the universe DID have a beginning, prior to which it did NOT exist.
Here is a phenomena that can NOT be explained using science. And once you can wrap your mind around this concept, the rest all fall into place, like a row of dominoes.
2007-12-27 16:53:01 · answer #2 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Definitely. If you are looking for an explanation of how the world was created in 6 days a few hundred years ago, the bible gives a much better and more practical explanation than science ever could.
2007-12-27 16:59:00 · answer #3 · answered by Fred 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neither explain anything as long as you maintain the negative dialect between the two activities. I see no difference between the two in that one explains more specifically how the other part works, what works on that part and what doesn't. Divorcing the two you may as well take a motor out of a vehicle and then try to figure out why it wont start.
2007-12-27 16:50:22 · answer #4 · answered by JORGE N 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ideas.
The scientific ideas about ideas cut their own throat. If the world is deterministic, then our ideas are predetermined for us and we have no choice but to think them. If the world is not deterministic, then science cannot address the question at all. In either case, science has nothing to say about something so common as a human thought.
2007-12-30 09:38:36 · answer #5 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, there are plenty of undocumented, anecdotal stories that religion explains and science does not. But, just because religion explains something, doesn't mean that explanation is right.
Religion can explain anything because it's very easy to come up with explanations that aren't correct.
2007-12-27 16:46:32 · answer #6 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think religion defines the lemming theory, or herd mentality much better than science can explain it.
PS I love kittens, they're so quick and agile and hard to hit!
2007-12-27 16:49:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Many varifiable healings present themselves annually, for which science has no answers.
Faith and the power of prayer explains the miraculous. Science cannot approach an explanation.
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Miracles still happen.
2007-12-27 16:48:37 · answer #8 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's a tie at the origin of the universe. In everything else, scientific evidence outweighs scriptural dogma.
2007-12-27 16:49:29 · answer #9 · answered by novangelis 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nope, none at all.
OK, technically religion explains everything. Gawddidit.
2007-12-27 16:46:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋