Some of you i've spoken to distrust science if it contradicts scripture. [Spirituality & Religion]

That ranges from simply trusting the bible over science to a conspiracy belief that scientists are deliberately lying.

My question is this: Can you name an example of a phenomenon which was thought to have a natural explanation but which was later found to have a supernatural one?
Because the reverse is what we have seen in every case so far: a phenomenon attributed to supernatural forces which is later discovered to have a natural explanation.

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Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M

It's weird that some people, products of modern societies, consider a collection of bronze age Hebrew folk tales more seriously than science.

Pikachu

@Crazywaterspring

It is a position which is utterly absurd to those that do not already share the religious conviction.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Pikachu It is, but rather than simple dismissal, what interests me is [i]why[/i] they believe in what Crazywaterspring rightly calls those "Bronze Age Hebrew folk-tales".

I think one reason is the spurious "certainty" given by unquestioning acceptance of such beliefs. This attitude is easier to take than understanding the central planks of the natural sciences are uncertainty, questioning and review.

We must be careful though to tease shallow myths from deeper mysticism and spiritual yearning, and recognise that many Christians do take myths like The Flood and 6-day Creation as just myths; whilst still following the primary message of an omnipotent, creative deity. That message is above and beyond the ancient tribal scribes who defined that deity - God -, but may have simply adopted the fables from elsewhere.

Such Christians (and doubtless their parallels in other faiths) enjoy what Science teaches of [i]how[/i], in their view, God's handiwork operates.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@Crazywaterspring not just Hebrew, the new testament as well was probably written by humans, and recounts a verbal history which was then written down. Everyone who has ever play the game "telephone" knows the result of the verbal history!

Pikachu

@ArishMell

This is the thing that gets me. Aside from some things in the bible which are directly contradicted by scientific discovery, there's not a whole lot which says that these natural processes are not simply the way in which a god built the world.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Pikachu No there is not, but I was endeavouring to show how modern Christian might see that very point - they believe God made everything, as the Bible does claim; but see his ways of doing so from modern knowledge.

I find a belief in such a God difficult to accept, but at least I try to see belief in such a deity and its methods as something we can now elevate far above and beyond the guessing-games of ancient folk-tales.