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The religious fail to understand what science really is?
This is from the body of an e-mail I received, I get many similar
Subject: How did life start?
Message: HI Mike B thanks for your answer this is part of what you said (A failure to understand certain basic rules that underpin science and specifically a failure to understand chemistry.) I love it when folks like you tell me that we humans already know all there is to know about chemistry and science, and what could have possibly happened in 4.5 billion years. You show the rest of us who just don't know how the universe happened that it is possible for folks who believe in religion to be as close minded as you are. No offense (sic) meant. But Mike you have no idea if what you say has any bearing what so ever on what is possible.
This rather looks like a fine example, although it could be an assumption made by anyone in the street, but, from looking at many of the questions and answers on here, it does seem that most people who are religious seem to either deliberately or subconciously (sic) down play the evidence that science has.
Your thoughts on the matter are appreciated.
Edit:
Sky, according to most estimates that is actually the opposite, and as many scientists even if they have a religion, may in fact be jewish, muslim, buddhist, to try to claim 90% for christianity is rather steep. The figures in the link come from the University of Buffalo, and show in the USA a majority are non-believers at 52%
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8732
There is a lot of info out there if you only bother to look.
Edit: @ Jacob, who mentioned atheists, the question is about the attitude of the religious to science.
Edit @ ?, discovery is about 'mistakes' unexpected results are what drives science forward, the principle is called serendipity, also one of the greatest things about true scientists is that when things do not work out how they expect, instead of making them fit, they then find out why it didnt happen the way they thought it would, progess in then made. 'Mistakes' can tell us more than if everything fits the way we expect it to.
Edit @ Haroonamjar, taking a quote from 1941 from a man that died in 1955 is ignoring everything we have learned since, much like taking your belief from a book written 1400 years ago and then denying everything that comes after is valid, that is always a fail.
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- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes it is interesting. I feel that their problem is that they can only deal in certainties. "There is a god so this is what he says will happen". Then they can feel comfortable.
They find the whole uncertainty of science unsettling. Even in the passage you quoted the writer says : "love it when folks like you tell me that we humans already know all there is to know about chemistry and science". Which of course science doesn't. All science says is that according to the best available evidence this is what is happening/has happened.
So it is a Certainty vs Uncertainty thing in my opinion.
p.s. this would also explain why creationists think that if they can produce an obscure scientific paper which seems to go against mainstream science ALL of that branch of science is discredited. They cannot conceive that in science if someone shows that an established principle is wrong the scientists just shrug their shoulders and say: "That's interesting, now how does that affect xyz?". This is all to much uncertainty for the creationist brain.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Science is the history of mistakes made by people who thought they knew the lot.
And strange to say, scientists still make that first and fundamental error. Science can be supremely arrogant.
Science: the art of stumbling from one mistake to another in the hope of getting it right eventually.
Mind, even that is better than placing faith in the absurd notion of divinity.
That some believe the "GodDunnit" principle is scary.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
How here religion fails????? I hope u fail.
- Anonymous9 years ago
@Sky
Could you please tell me where you got this "interesting " statistic ? From the bible perhaps ?
Now being a scientist myself and working with my colleagues, as from this straw pole, that 90% looks a little............. fictitious!
Now please do not include Newton and other pre Darwin scientists, as they would've been too scared to go against the vicious and cruel religion which murdered and killed people regularly at the time.
So, post 1859..please proof your conjecture.
- ?Lv 69 years ago
and why do Atheist fail to understand that one person does not represent the millions of other on this planet? why do Atheist put them all in one basket when everyone is different with different views?
im not seeing that big IQ of yours, the one your all bragging about.
as i said, hes one fella, why do you assume that we all think like that?
science is learning, nothing wrong with that. and if you want to replace religion with science, who am i to say no?
- Anonymous9 years ago
It's a must for most religious people, otherwise they would be scientists.
Source(s): LMAO - Anonymous9 years ago
Yes, they are like children who don't want to hear their mother's advice - they block their ears and start singing as loud as they can.
