Curiosity killed Christianity?

[LunarPie]

Do you believe that science has/will put an end to Christianity as far as biblical reasoning and science goes? I think that as we further advance in our scientific world, we will lose, not necessarily our want for religion, but our ability to reason out religion as a logical choice. Opinion time!

 

[ViaCrucis]

Do you believe that science has/will put an end to Christianity as far as biblical reasoning and science goes? I think that as we further advance in our scientific world, we will lose, not necessarily our want for religion, but our ability to reason out religion as a logical choice. Opinion time!

Only insofar as people want to insist on a god-of-the-gaps.

My faith has only ever been strengthened by becoming more scientifically literate. A knowledge of the cosmos, the history of evolution, the oddities of the quantum world. These are not points where I lose faith, but become fascinated by the world, and it goes hand-in-hand with my Christian faith.

But if certain Christians will insist on a 6,000 year old universe, and boxing God into a small box where He exists primarily to explain the not-yet explained, then the more we learn will push God further and further into smaller gaps. Additionally those who insist on non-scientific nonsense such as Young Earth Creationism will find more and more people leaving the faith once they realize that Young Earth Creationism is nonsense and--because they associate it with Christianity or even religion more broadly--turn away from religion entirely.

I think certain kinds of religion are going to decrease. But to suggest religion itself will disappear is naive and also does not appreciate the fact that religious faith speaks to people of all sorts, from the very educated to the very uneducated, from the scientifically literate to the scientifically illiterate.

Science and religion are not enemies except in the minds of the very small.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Davian]

Biblical reasoning?

 

[Colter]

Science has only destroyed the superstitious baggage of religion, the true God of spiritual truth will emerge in the end. The Atheist seem to think that even the spiritual truth or values of the metaphysical world are merely superstition.

In the evolution of religion, superstition and fear paved the way for the creation of the scaffolding of concept frames that were the only possible way truth could be revealed.

 

[bhsmte]

Do you believe that science has/will put an end to Christianity as far as biblical reasoning and science goes? I think that as we further advance in our scientific world, we will lose, not necessarily our want for religion, but our ability to reason out religion as a logical choice. Opinion time!

IMO, not any time soon, as there will always be those who search for any self rationalizing reason, to say the bible is correct and anything that goes against it is a lie.

Of course, as time has passed, science has not had to adjust to religious beliefs, but religion has clearly had to adjust to scientific discoveries.

Lastly, there are fewer believers today, than there was in the past and as people acquire knowledge, I believe this trend will continue.

 

[quatona]

The Atheist

Oh, how I´d love to meet this "The Atheist"!

 

[quatona]

Do you believe that science has/will put an end to Christianity as far as biblical reasoning and science goes?

I don´t know what "biblical reasoning" is supposed to be, but I don´t think that science will put an end to Christianity in particular, or monotheism or theism in general.

I think that as we further advance in our scientific world, we will lose, not necessarily our want for religion, but our ability to reason out religion as a logical choice. Opinion time!

Religion, in appealing to the "supernatural, the unknowable etc." has always made sure to not depend on logic. So while it never had actual explanatory power (but by choosing the "beyond"-questions for its subject at least some potential for explanatory power), science reduces this potential with every natural explanation for something that used to be ascribed to the gods, but it will - assuming that there is a desire for religion, transcendence, the supernatural - never make it obsolete.
With every existential question that is answered, new existential questions arise that religion will take hold of.

 

[juvenissun]

Do you believe that science has/will put an end to Christianity as far as biblical reasoning and science goes? I think that as we further advance in our scientific world, we will lose, not necessarily our want for religion, but our ability to reason out religion as a logical choice. Opinion time!

Could you tell me one thing which you sensed wrong in the Bible in terms of science. The Scripture has been written for a few thousands of years. At the same time, science has advanced a few thousands of years. There HAS TO BE something wrong in the Bible about science. Right?

Go ahead, make my day.

 

[Paradoxum]

I don't think science kills religion, but it does kill some of the need for it. If science explains the origin of existence, that will be one less issue God is used for.

But 'God as sustainer' can be emphasised over 'God as creator'.

I think consideration of psychology can make religion seem less plausible.

 

[Neogaia777]

Do you believe that science has/will put an end to Christianity as far as biblical reasoning and science goes? I think that as we further advance in our scientific world, we will lose, not necessarily our want for religion, but our ability to reason out religion as a logical choice. Opinion time!

I believe that science will eventually prove God,(before the end times) I think it is already beginning...

 

[bhsmte]

I believe that science will eventually prove God,(before the end times) I think it is already beginning...

Could you explain how it is already beginning?

 

[Neogaia777]

Could you explain how it is already beginning?

For one example: We have learned that there is a connecting "energy" that we can measure that connects all life, and we have even learned that this energy affects not only living things, but inanimate objects, we are discovering that our thoughts have power (that they affect the quantum world, and help formulate reality), and words can influence the energy.

I believe were just a generation or two away from taking the next step in evolution and tapping into this energy and using it and manipulating it deliberately, and I believe that it is the power of God, and that we might find God in this energy...

God Bless!

 

[bhsmte]

For one example: We have learned that there is a connecting "energy" that we can measure that connects all life, and we have even learned that this energy affects not only living things, but inanimate objects, we are discovering that our thoughts have power (that they affect the quantum world, and help formulate reality), and words can influence the energy.

I believe were just a generation or two away from taking the next step in evolution and tapping into this energy and using it and manipulating it deliberately, and I believe that it is the power of God, and that we might find God in this energy...

God Bless!

And how exactly does what you state point to a God and only a God?

 

[Neogaia777]

And how exactly does what you state point to a God and only a God?

I believe God is that energy, or is in that energy, and it can only be accessed through God, as we learn more about it I think we'll eventually "prove" it (and then we will enter the time of the end)

 

[bhsmte]

I believe God is that energy, or is in that energy, and it can only be accessed through God, as we learn more about it I think we'll eventually "prove" it (and then we will enter the time of the end)

Big assumption on you're part.

What you stated could have a multitude of explanations and science has not supported any one explanation, when a multitude of them could exist.

 

[Neogaia777]

Big assumption on you're part.

I'll take that risk.

God Bless!

 

[Albion]

Do you believe that science has/will put an end to Christianity as far as biblical reasoning and science goes? I think that as we further advance in our scientific world, we will lose, not necessarily our want for religion, but our ability to reason out religion as a logical choice. Opinion time!

That idea has been kicking around for centuries...and the result has been that the Bible has been proven correct time and again after science or reasoning had seemed to find some fatal flaws in its accounts. So, I doubt that this will change anytime soon.

 

[bhsmte]

I'll take that risk.

God Bless!

You are free to do so, but assumptions won't do much for proving anything.

 

[Neogaia777]

Do you believe that science has/will put an end to Christianity as far as biblical reasoning and science goes? I think that as we further advance in our scientific world, we will lose, not necessarily our want for religion, but our ability to reason out religion as a logical choice. Opinion time!

It will become very logical, when we enter the time of the end, science will at first, cause many to fall away from God and stumble and not believe in a God, but will then prove God so that we are without excuse, and then the entire world will see and believe and there is war, and we enter an age callled the time of the end, and people arise with supernatural abilities and powers through the combination of science and religion, well, no, not religion but among true believers, Spirituality, a real relationship with Jesus Christ...

God Bless!

 

[bhsmte]

That idea has been kicking around for centuries...and the result has been that the Bible has been proven correct time and again after science or reasoning had seemed to find some fatal flaws in its accounts. So, I doubt that this will change anytime soon.

What do you mean by saying; "the bible has been proven correct"?

Correct in what way exactly and who is the authority who has deemed it correct?