What Do I Do If I Get This Job?
Jobs & Education1 min ago
No best answer has yet been selected by chakka35. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.To equate the knowledge provided by science with anything one chooses to believe demonstrates either logical absurdity or a profound ignorance of what science is and does. The knowledge gained by science is in no way a product of faith nor is faith a requirement or a means to practice science or appreciate what science provides.
Faith is belief in whatever, divorced from a need for the knowledge that supports and thereby gives a reasonable basis for that belief. This is as far from what science is and does as it can possibly be.
The creationist�s/religionist�s gripe, �that science does not have (or may never have) all the answers�, is like the cries of a spoiled child who has never been denied any whim their reality deprived minds can conceive. It�s an �all or nothing� mentality that feels no need to demonstrate that it has earned anything.
Even if it was somehow proved that everything that science claims is wrong, this would still not provide a rational basis for turning to faith to obtain knowledge and understanding of reality. The beauty of science is that it clearly shows what its claims are based on and is open to rational refutation. When science can not (as yet) provide evidence and a reasonable basis for its claims, science is silent. This allows each of us to determine, based on our individual understanding, whether or not to accept those claims. Science in general is not concerned with what an individual believes. The purpose of science is to obtain and substantiate knowledge of reality based on a rigorous and proven process of observation and experimentation.
cont.
Science doesn't have all the answers. Neither does it want all the answers. Scientists would rather have something they don't know about compared to something they do.
But to say that the bible isn't logically justified misses the whole point of the bible, a miracle isn't scientific just as the x-men or superman don't need full scientific credentials, its magic, a superpower, or in the case of the bible it is the power of almighty God.
mibn2cweus im afraid has issed an importnat phase in human civilsation, the one where the church encouraged scientific advance and research through the 19th and 18th centuries, most great scientists were also clergymen and had a strong faith, they sought to understand God's work and the church promoted this.
Also the bible doesn't contradict itself, and neither does any holy text. Some of the cleverest people alive have studied and interpreted these books without finding any contradictions. Please give them a little credit.
All i can say is respect both view-points and try to be rational. You wax lyrical about the irrational behaviour of religion and the logical approach of science, then ruin it with your !!! and petty insults.
All the contradictions I've looked at lie in translations, as aLAtin student the lack of definite articles and the lack of definite definitions in hic,haec,hoc and qui,quod que etc. allow for these interpretations made by people who are just as bad as those that they ridicule. Or in Latin they/them/those/those whom/the masses/the crowd/the rabble/the people they ridicule.
Aside from minor grammatical flaws of slightly vague personal pronouns that can only be conmsidered a true contardiction by a true pedant, the bible contains no major contradictions. By major i mean something that would actually affect the faith of the believers and their actions/thoughts.
And please watch the ! sorry to be pedantic but you wouldn't normally shout the sentence so why write it?
Either scientists (such as my slef) or creationists (such as my frineds) are more or less the same, they can both be sound but they can both be jerks. ironically this jerkiness arises at the same time, when people are so convinced their ight and can't understand what anyone else is doing that they miss the other people's point.
Creationists ask why we can't see how fantastic and beautiful the world is and how we can't see that this is divine. Ignoring the fact that scientists don't set out to prove the wolrd isn't divine, but simply to understand the world whatever it is.
Meanwhile Scientists ask why creationists can possibly believe in these scientifically impossible stories and how they can put their trust and live their lives according to an invisible, unprovable impossible being.. Missing the whole point of faith and the essence of belief, it is precisle y that belief not proof, it doesn't need facts and evidence to enforce it just the person to believe its true.
I don't care which view you hold unless you can have a proper discussion about ti, as I said earlier I have many interesting conversations with theologians and yet I don't believ, while I have had interesting discussions with biologists and there are oparts of creation that they can't convince me about. I'm just waiting. But if all you can do is try to shout out opponents and belittle them to get your point across then I don't want to hear it.
People get a lot more angry in this issue and other religion vs scince issues, yet there is never this much brouhaha about UFO believers and peoiple convinced in conspiracy theories and abductions, yet they are a matter of belief and have no evidence. Why do peope, get so worked up abput creationism on both sides of the fence?
1+1=2 not because of faiht but because of language.
Humasn made mathematics so we get to set the terms just like in football if the ball goes in the net from a penalty is it a goal? You seem to imply that it might not be as football is an axiom. No, it ius a goal because we made football and we defined what a goal is. We defined what a metre is and how heavy a kilogram is, and 2 or deux or dos will always be twice as big as 1 or une or uno. Mathematics isn't a true science as this thread means, instead maths is the one definite science because we defined what maths is, a science is a logical process of reasonable discussion backed up with evidence.
However your right, true sciences accept that nothing is certain and that everything we have is just a theory and could still change or be proved totally wrong.
But don't stifle mibn2cweus, he is just as allowed to declare his opinions as I am or you are.
Sorry, we can't find any related questions. Try using the search bar at the top of the page to search for some keywords, or choose a topic and submit your own question.