Just because someone believes God created the universe doesn't mean they don't believe what scientists have discovered.
The purpose of science is to answer the "how" questions--How does the body work? How does the water cycle work? How do fingerprints and crumbs appear out of nowhere while my kids are all away at school?
Personally, I think it's exciting to live in a period of history when scientists have the technology to discover so many of these "hows" at a rapid clip, and I'm eagerly awaiting the results of that fingerprint research.
But science, as you have stated several times in previous discussions, has not yet discovered how the world began. Therefore, science has not yet disproved the theory that God set everything in motion. So that's why I'll pass on those earplugs and mask. But thank you very much anyway. :)
Just because someone believes God created the universe doesn't mean they don't believe what scientists have discovered.
You are right...that just means they don't believe what their own holy books lay out before them.
Therefore, science has not yet disproved the theory that God set everything in motion.
Science hasn't proven the world wasn't made by a giant pink unicorn with glowing neon eyes either. You can't prove a negative anyway.
Science isn't really concerned with religion anyway. Studies in medicine, astronomy, geology, archeology, genes, and the like give it plenty of serious things to research.
Again, Catholics don't believe in a strict, literal interpretation of all the Bible. Much of it is symbolic. It matters not if God created the world in seven 24-hour days, or seven 1000-year periods, the point is that He systematically created it.
All I wanted to point out was that it's inaccurate to say that all Christians dismiss science. Science deals with answering the "hows" and doesn't contradict religion which answers the "whys".
"Why are we here? What is my purpose? Where are we going?" These studies are separate, but just as important and serious as studying the physical world.
Catholics don't believe in a strict, literal interpretation of all the Bible. Much of it is symbolic.
Some of it is symbolic, and some of it is literal. Some of the words mean what they say, some of them you need somebody to tell you what they MEANT to say when they said it.
Yeah.
At the end of the day, it still is what it is: One of many many many supposedly "holy" texts that tell fantastical stories (dragons, giants, unicorns are all there) to try and come to grips with things that the people of the day couldn't understand.
Not to mention the "god" of the Bible is a nasty, homicidal, jealous, and angry deity.
Science deals with answering the "hows" and doesn't contradict religion which answers the "whys".
No, Science deals with the 'whys' as well. And quite well at that. Science isn't concerned with the supernatural.....because it doesn't exist.
"Why are we here? What is my purpose? Where are we going?"
These are questions that can be personally answered without the need of spiritual mumbo jumbo.
But hey....it's the WEEKEND ! And it's SUNNY ! Lets get outside and enjoy it before we suffer from computer monitor stroke!
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Just because someone believes God created the universe doesn't mean they don't believe what scientists have discovered.
The purpose of science is to answer the "how" questions--How does the body work? How does the water cycle work? How do fingerprints and crumbs appear out of nowhere while my kids are all away at school?
Personally, I think it's exciting to live in a period of history when scientists have the technology to discover so many of these "hows" at a rapid clip, and I'm eagerly awaiting the results of that fingerprint research.
But science, as you have stated several times in previous discussions, has not yet discovered how the world began. Therefore, science has not yet disproved the theory that God set everything in motion. So that's why I'll pass on those earplugs and mask. But thank you very much anyway. :)
Just because someone believes God created the universe doesn't mean they don't believe what scientists have discovered.
You are right...that just means they don't believe what their own holy books lay out before them.
Therefore, science has not yet disproved the theory that God set everything in motion.
Science hasn't proven the world wasn't made by a giant pink unicorn with glowing neon eyes either. You can't prove a negative anyway.
Science isn't really concerned with religion anyway. Studies in medicine, astronomy, geology, archeology, genes, and the like give it plenty of serious things to research.
Again, Catholics don't believe in a strict, literal interpretation of all the Bible. Much of it is symbolic. It matters not if God created the world in seven 24-hour days, or seven 1000-year periods, the point is that He systematically created it.
All I wanted to point out was that it's inaccurate to say that all Christians dismiss science. Science deals with answering the "hows" and doesn't contradict religion which answers the "whys".
"Why are we here? What is my purpose? Where are we going?" These studies are separate, but just as important and serious as studying the physical world.
Catholics don't believe in a strict, literal interpretation of all the Bible. Much of it is symbolic.
Some of it is symbolic, and some of it is literal. Some of the words mean what they say, some of them you need somebody to tell you what they MEANT to say when they said it.
Yeah.
At the end of the day, it still is what it is: One of many many many supposedly "holy" texts that tell fantastical stories (dragons, giants, unicorns are all there) to try and come to grips with things that the people of the day couldn't understand.
Not to mention the "god" of the Bible is a nasty, homicidal, jealous, and angry deity.
Science deals with answering the "hows" and doesn't contradict religion which answers the "whys".
No, Science deals with the 'whys' as well. And quite well at that. Science isn't concerned with the supernatural.....because it doesn't exist.
"Why are we here? What is my purpose? Where are we going?"
These are questions that can be personally answered without the need of spiritual mumbo jumbo.
But hey....it's the WEEKEND ! And it's SUNNY ! Lets get outside and enjoy it before we suffer from computer monitor stroke!
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