How has scientific knowledge affected your faith?

[essentialsaltes]

Spurred by a recent comment by AV, I present a poll.

 

[AV1611VET]

I voted:

No, I've seen plenty of scientific knowledge, and it can take a hike.

 

[SkyWriting]

Spurred by a recent comment by AV, I present a poll.

People may use trust in science as an alternative to religious faith to cope with life's uncertainties.
How Science Mimics Faith - Scientific American

 

[Simmo11]

People may use trust in science as an alternative to religious faith to cope with life's uncertainties.
How Science Mimics Faith - Scientific American

Taken from the above link.........
Religion provides a sense of meaning and comfort for believers, and studies show that such beliefs intensify during threatening situations. Now research suggests that some people's faith in science may serve the same role.

People do not need "faith" in science because science is based in reality only religions require "faith" because they are based in the minds of people.

 

[AV1611VET]

People do not need "faith" in science because science is based in reality only religions require "faith" because they are based in the minds of people.

Look who's back.

 

[PsychoSarah]

Taken from the above link.........
Religion provides a sense of meaning and comfort for believers, and studies show that such beliefs intensify during threatening situations. Now research suggests that some people's faith in science may serve the same role.

People do not need "faith" in science because science is based in reality only religions require "faith" because they are based in the minds of people.

Some people definitely trust and, at times, misinterpret scientific findings to find comfort in them. I used to be that kind of atheist, before college mellowed me out.

 

[Simmo11]

Look who's back.

What did I write that made you write that? does reality frighten you?

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Science only seeks to disprove, through Falsifiabilty and repeatability. It never proves anything or say anything is absolutely true or that person is making an unscientific statement. Therefore science can make no statement on the validity of Christianity as it deals in absolute conceptions and not probabilities.
If Science undermines your Faith then you don't truly understand one or the other or both of them.

 

[Hieronymus]

Taken from the above link.........
Religion provides a sense of meaning and comfort for believers, and studies show that such beliefs intensify during threatening situations. Now research suggests that some people's faith in science may serve the same role.

People do not need "faith" in science because science is based in reality only religions require "faith" because they are based in the minds of people.

False dichotomy.

 

[Simmo11]

Science only seeks to disprove, through Falsifiabilty and repeatability. It never proves anything or say anything is absolutely true or that person is making an unscientific statement. Therefore science can make no statement on the validity of Christianity as it deals in absolute conceptions and not probabilities.
If Science undermines your Faith then you don't truly understand one or the other or both of them.

Either that that or they don't want to understand science because they know what might happen to their faith if they did.

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Either that that or they don't want to understand science because they know what might happen to their faith if they did.

Yes, they don't understand then that nothing will happen to their faith at all. A sincere Christian and a sincere Scientist can hold both views simultaneously without contradiction as one is based on probabilty derived from empiric experiment and the other Metaphysics and Faith. Neither can disprove the other as their base principles are incompatible, as if I try to disprove the score in a soccer game by using the rules of chess.

 

[Ophiolite]

I voted:

No, I've seen plenty of scientific knowledge, and it can take a hike.

And yet you seem perfectly at ease using the fruits of science to communicate with others.

I shall say your posts have caused me to reevaluate my understanding of evolution. I now wonder if some humans may not have evolved from older primates, but instead from ostriches.

 

[juvenissun]

Spurred by a recent comment by AV, I present a poll.

You don't have this choice:

My faith was raised from science, and science strengthens my faith.

 

[lesliedellow]

I live in the Uk where, if people think about it at all, things like Evolution are just taken for granted. It certainly isn't a battleground in the way it seems to be in America. When I started to become interested in Christianity at the age of thirty, I would have been surprised to find any Christians who weren't comfortable with science; let alone a great many.

 

[Mountain_Girl406]

Scientific knowledge has harmed my faith, the more I learn the harder it is to believe in God. I struggled with faith before I really began to study science, even as a young person. ..but I've kept up with being involved in church and trying to find faith. The more I learn the harder it gets, and I often think I'll only find faith if I get some sort of divine push in that direction

 

[lesliedellow]

People may use trust in science as an alternative to religious faith to cope with life's uncertainties.
How Science Mimics Faith - Scientific American

Nothing new there. The tendency towards scientism has been noticed by more than one atheist philosopher. Mary Midgley and John Gray to name two.

 

[Winken]

Scientific knowledge has harmed my faith, the more I learn the harder it is to believe in God. I struggled with fairh before I really began to study science , even as a young person. ..but I've kept up with being involved in church and trying to find fairh. The more I learn the harder it gets, and I often think I'll only find faith if I get some sort of divine push in that direction

Who created? Who dissects creation?

 

[Mountain_Girl406]

Who created? Who dissects creation?

Does the universe require a creator?
As for dissection of creation. .I dunno, kids in biology classes, except those like me who ask to be exempt? I'm sure that's not what you mean, but I'm not sure what you do mean.

 

[Winken]

Does the universe require a creator?
As for dissection of creation. .I dunno, kids in biology classes, except those like me who ask to be exempt? I'm sure that's not what you mean, but I'm not sure what you do mean.

Before the beginning of space and time, God. Following the beginning of space and time, zillions of folks cross-examining it, taking it apart, asking endless questions......

Read Genesis 1:1-5, John 1:1-5, 1 John 1:1-4, Hebrews 1:1-4. You can do that now. Just point the cursor at the reference.

 

[Hoghead1]

I live in the Uk where, if people think about it at all, things like Evolution are just taken for granted. It certainly isn't a battleground in the way it seems to be in America. When I started to become interested in Christianity at the age of thirty, I would have been surprised to find any Christians who weren't comfortable with science; let alone a great many.

That's very true. The big flab was resolved by the end of teh 19th century, in England. The only place where evolution is still an issue is in the American Bible Belt.