I’ve never understood there being a battle between science and god, as real science is the study of gods creation.
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Science is mostly about questioning, most religions are about believing. Great if you can excel in your faith while questioning things.
I think I agree with your statement about most religions, even many Christians and “Christians” have too much of an uncritical, lazy belief.
What does “believing” mean to you? People often assert that the word “faith” is some stupid, blind trust in something. I believe, or have faith, that my car will run today, not because I have some spiritual feeling, but because I understand engineering and it has worked for years. My reasoning says that I should have faith that it will work when I turn the key. I could be wrong, but I’m probably not wrong.
You believe your car will turn on not because of faith, but because of evidence based results. Faith is, by definition, belief that doesn’t require proof. 🫶
If you’ve ever drove a dodge you’d know “past results do not guarantee future results” I had a black dodge named Swan.
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We understand the world not by evidence but by the quality of our explanations of which evidence is a part.
I put ‘belief’ in the same category. It really hit home for me when I had a vax mandate deadline meeting with my lab’s big bosses, and the first thing I heard was the medical director saying “🙏please tell me you still BELIEVE in SCIENCE “.
That inversion blew my mind (and my career).
According to what definition of faith? If you look at how the word faith is used in a Biblical sense (like analyzing the word based on context) there’s no implication faith is not evidence based results.
I would argue faith is ~synonymous with trust. Trust can be stupid, based on a house of cards or backed by solid reasoning.
In Christianity, faith is encouraged to be tested. (For instance, Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 says that Christians should be pitied if Christ didn’t raise from the dead. He was arguing for his readers to test the claim, not just do what sounded cool at the time.)
The theory of evolution contradicts the idea of creationism, which posits that all species were created by a divine being.
However, it's important to note that not all religious beliefs are incompatible with science, and many scientists themselves hold religious beliefs. In fact, the concept of a divine creator is one that is often pondered by scientists and philosophers alike, and many see science as a way to better understand and appreciate the complexity and wonder of the universe.
In essence, science and religion can coexist and even complement each other, as both seek to provide answers to some of life's most profound questions. The perceived battle between them often arises from a fundamentalist or extremist viewpoint that sees the two as mutually exclusive, rather than acknowledging the nuance and complexity of each.
While scientists have made progress in understanding the conditions that may have led to the emergence of life, the exact mechanism by which life arose from non-living matter remains unknown.
Actually it's not that complicated , from elements you create a complex organisms and of course there is billions of years of trial / error / chance . Life is highly probable event given vast amount of time, think of it as Dec of cards ,for them to align from lowest to highest in the same color scheme is not impossible, it just needs time and universe has that.
Besides, organic matter is basically made out of only few compounds , it's much less than a deck of cards.
I also love science.
Yeah the battle occurs when religion is mixed. The concept of God can mean very different things to people throughout time. Most in the west currently understand it as the God of Abrahamic religions.
There is a change in how many would label themselves religious so maybe the concept of God is slowly changing again?
zapped. science is our drive to better understand god through god's creation.