Faith v. Science
Heard this one before?
We Should Only Accept What Science Tells Us
That’s what I think. Since science tells us prayer doesn’t work then it doesn’t work. It tells us the universe is 13.7 billion years old. It tells us we evolved. It tells us there was no Israelite Exodus from Egypt. It tells us the Nativity stories in the Gospels could not be true. It tells us virgins do not have babies. It tells us that dead people do not bodily rise from the grave. Christians must denigrate science in order to believe. Science or Faith? Science has a track record. Faith flies planes into buildings. Science all the way, hands down. End of story.
I thought about believing this, but then I realized that it can’t be proven scientifically, and I read somewhere that you shouldn’t believe things that can’t be proven scientifically, so I was forced to reject it. I’m glad you have faith, though.
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Well, whoever said what was quoted above really has no understanding of science or the history of science at all. He incorrectly assumes in his argument that science is static. He seems to believe that once “science” produces a “known,” then that “known” is absolutely correct and immutable. Reality is quite the opposite, though. Science is definitely not static; it is most certainly dynamic. Our understanding of what we know and what we think we know scientifically is constantly changing. For example, a few hundred years ago, scientists stated that it was fact that earth was flat and that the sun and other celestrial bodies revolved around the earth. Of course, in time, that was proven wrong once we had the right tools and more intelligent scientists to discover that it was the other way around. At one point in time, we thought the only components of an atom were the proton and electron, until it was eventually discovered that there was a third particle, a neutron. My point is that we only know what we know, until we know more. We can’t assume that what we know at this moment about something is all there is to know about it.
As far as the statement about science having a track record and faith flying planes into buildings goes, that’s like saying guns kill people. Neither is true. People kill people. It’s just another blanket statement that people like to make when they have an otherwise weak argument. It was scientists that created nuclear/biological/chemical weapons that have no other use than the death and destruction of men and the environment. It’s man that does evil. Not a particular type of man. Every man has choice whether he’s a man of science or a man of faith (of course I must point out that the two are not mutually exclusive). The choice to pursue that which is right or that which is wrong.