WILL SCIENCE DISPROVE GOD? [Spirituality & Religion]
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You know where I stand on this question.
61-69, M
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Eternity · 26-30, M
Well faith is the antithesis of evidence. So no matter how much evidence one may find those with faith will ignore it.
So no. Science will never disprove god because those that believe in a biblical god are not of a scientific mindset.
They'll simply cover their ears and bay like a donkey when confronted with anything that proves them wrong.
Time, however, will erode this belief away. It will take quite a while but as science gives us more and more wonders and as the world becomes a more involved place for all people, eventually religion will become myth and fade into history.
People will look back on it and wonder how anyone could have possibly used such tripe as an excuse to oppress each other. They will see the devoted in the same light that we currently see cavemen.
So no. Science will never disprove god because those that believe in a biblical god are not of a scientific mindset.
They'll simply cover their ears and bay like a donkey when confronted with anything that proves them wrong.
Time, however, will erode this belief away. It will take quite a while but as science gives us more and more wonders and as the world becomes a more involved place for all people, eventually religion will become myth and fade into history.
People will look back on it and wonder how anyone could have possibly used such tripe as an excuse to oppress each other. They will see the devoted in the same light that we currently see cavemen.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Eternity Possibly.
I think you have overlooked two fundamental points; but don't fall into the question's only-Christianity/Judaism/Islam trap. It is Religion, not A religion, that matters.
Firstly, even though many [i]individuals [/i]do not, humans [i]generally[/i] have always felt some "need" for a spiritual dimension to life; however logical or absurd, organised or informal, you think their expressions of that need.
That yearning goes far beyond wondering why the stars shine, to seek mankind's place among the stars. Perhaps more importantly though, it seeks to lessen the fear of death and to comfort the bereaved. Both searches rise above the childish vanity of scriptural literalism's worship of ignorance.
The "cavemen" as you call them were probably religious; and they would have had the same intellect, emotions and needs as we do. Since then humanity around the world, in so many cultures and religions extinct or extant, has had some thousands of years to forget to be religious, but it patently has not and appears unlikely to do so any time soon.
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Secondly, the supposed battle between religious faith and science is just so out-dated, needless and immature. Although science may make believing in supernatural forces much harder, there are plenty who follow and appreciate both secular learning and spiritual belief.
Religion simply postulates that the real Universe, Life and everything were brought into existence and are being controlled by a mysterious deity or deities of unknowable nature, for unknowable purposes. It does [i]not[/i] ask "How?", but neither does it say, "Thou Shalt Not Know How". Only god or God has the privilege of being ineffable.
Science simply accepts the real Universe etc. exist and tries to understand how they work. It does [i]not[/i] say "Thou Shalt Not Believe" in a god making them work.
So from at least a Christian perspective there is no need for the argument. Science can neither prove nor disprove any god, nor does it try to, but reveals ever more the scale and beauty of the physical reality that the faith considers the work of its unknowable God.
I think you have overlooked two fundamental points; but don't fall into the question's only-Christianity/Judaism/Islam trap. It is Religion, not A religion, that matters.
Firstly, even though many [i]individuals [/i]do not, humans [i]generally[/i] have always felt some "need" for a spiritual dimension to life; however logical or absurd, organised or informal, you think their expressions of that need.
That yearning goes far beyond wondering why the stars shine, to seek mankind's place among the stars. Perhaps more importantly though, it seeks to lessen the fear of death and to comfort the bereaved. Both searches rise above the childish vanity of scriptural literalism's worship of ignorance.
The "cavemen" as you call them were probably religious; and they would have had the same intellect, emotions and needs as we do. Since then humanity around the world, in so many cultures and religions extinct or extant, has had some thousands of years to forget to be religious, but it patently has not and appears unlikely to do so any time soon.
'
Secondly, the supposed battle between religious faith and science is just so out-dated, needless and immature. Although science may make believing in supernatural forces much harder, there are plenty who follow and appreciate both secular learning and spiritual belief.
Religion simply postulates that the real Universe, Life and everything were brought into existence and are being controlled by a mysterious deity or deities of unknowable nature, for unknowable purposes. It does [i]not[/i] ask "How?", but neither does it say, "Thou Shalt Not Know How". Only god or God has the privilege of being ineffable.
Science simply accepts the real Universe etc. exist and tries to understand how they work. It does [i]not[/i] say "Thou Shalt Not Believe" in a god making them work.
So from at least a Christian perspective there is no need for the argument. Science can neither prove nor disprove any god, nor does it try to, but reveals ever more the scale and beauty of the physical reality that the faith considers the work of its unknowable God.