Should science be only for atheists

Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by yaracuy, Mar 9, 2011.

  1. yaracuy Banned Banned

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    Nature is a gift of God to the highest evolved creature ( Man )
    Man wants to study God's creation
    So why should science be Godless ?

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    Why Creator or God can not be mentioned on science forum ?

    The people who had experienced a relationship with God , God is real to them .

    Those people who have not had a relationship , God for them does not exist to them
     
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  3. drumbeat Registered Senior Member

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    Most areas of science are fine to study with a belief in God in mind.
    There are a few areas that may raise questions for some peoples certain beliefs though, such as some areas of Cosmology or Palaeontology.
     
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  5. yaracuy Banned Banned

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    I think Ig Genesis one is taken and separate it from genesis 2 there should not be any problem

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  7. glaucon tending tangentially Registered Senior Member

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    Aside from your spurious assertions, is there a point you're trying to make here?

    I don't recall anyone proposing that theists should somehow be excluded from the practice of science......
     
  8. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    Science is the study of the natural world.

    God is a supernatural entity.

    Science admits only natural explanations for things. That does not mean that in some "ultimate" sense there may not be a supernatural explanation.

    Science involves studying the laws of nature, which may or may not have come from God. Science looks at regularities in nature. By definition, any supernatural intervention in the natural world is in breach of the laws of nature, and so is not amenable to scientific investigation.
     
  9. ULTRA Realistically Surreal Registered Senior Member

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    I am a (lapsed) scientist, though I still do a little microscopy and biology on the side. I believe in mendelian genetics (discovered by a clergyman), and in evolutionary biology as per Darwin, who was deeply religeous. In fact, his most important work "On the origin of species" was delayed due to his fear of religeous uproar; He was proved correct. Many notable scientists see no problem with having a religeous belief whilst conducting outstanding scientific careers. Einstein himself said, "God does not play dice with the universe." He certainly did not ever try and discount God.
    I find it saddening that people finf they have to take such extremely polarised views on religeon and science. If it was not for religeon, science would not be where it is today.
    I think some people are just so paranoid that if they allow any religeous thought that they go totally nuts about it, which for a scientist is a wholly unobjective stance to take in my view. Fervent unrational dismissal is no better than fervent insistence on religeon. Both are as bad as each other, and niether forward the issue one iota.
    There is room enough for both, and good research and proper presentation of the facts will win out whatever the source.
     
  10. glaucon tending tangentially Registered Senior Member

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    I hate to say it but: amen to that.

    To be honest, I'm still trying to grasp the point of the OP...
     
  11. gmilam Valued Senior Member

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    Whaddya mean - "god"? Definition please...
     
  12. yaracuy Banned Banned

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    Well perhaps this may clear up my bitching.
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    Yaracuy,

    You have mentioned “God” and “creator” at least four times now.


    Originally Posted by yaracuy
    There must have been a creator for the beginning of life on the earth (post #47)


    Originally Posted by yaracuy
    Apparently some thing is missing ... The creator of life (post #49)


    Originally Posted by yaracuy
    most people talk after the nucleotide were created or synthesized let say by God sense I don't hear other input (post #73)


    Originally Posted by yaracuy
    the Spirit of God created them which comes from an other planet (post #75)

    This is a science forum. If you want to discuss science, then please feel free to do so. The scientific method proceeds on the basis of a naturalistic mechanism behind observed phenomena and data. If there are gaps in scientific knowledge or science cannot explain something (which is certainly true of our understanding of abiogenesis), science does not throw its hands up and declare that ‘it must have been God’. If you want to speculate on the role of God or a ‘creator’ then you are no longer being scientific and I will move the thread to a non-science forum. (Note: depending on the nature of the conversation, this may be the Cesspool where threads are automatically locked.)
     
  13. yaracuy Banned Banned

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    For each one of us god have a different meaning .
    As for me He is the creator of nature and I am part of nature.

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  14. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Apply the scientific method to your god then.
     
  15. gmilam Valued Senior Member

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    "He"? What makes you think it's a "he"? And does "he" exist external to nature? Outside of space & time?
     
  16. Jan Ardena OM!!! Valued Senior Member

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    He said;



    Are you blind?

    jan.
     
  17. yaracuy Banned Banned

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    Question: If there is a God He would have followers who will sacrifice their life for Him ?

    Background : There are a lot of different followers for gods. God promised to His people He will bring them back to their land

    Experiment : If there is a God will protect their chosen people from extinction, All sort of persecution and assimilation for over 3000 years have taken place

    Result: The people of Israel have their own nation again after 1900 year

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    here you have you scientific method

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  18. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Not even close.
    How does the result: the people of Israel have their own nation
    answer the question: does god have followers who will sacrifice their lives for him?

    Your "experiment" is also badly (to the point of uselessness) flawed.
     
  19. yaracuy Banned Banned

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    What is wrong , Any body can say is wring, Question like what is wrong?

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  20. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    I stated what is wrong. The result does not relate to the initial question.
    In fact it comes closer to disproving the premise.
    If they survived and got a nation of their own then they didn't all sacrifice their lives, did they?

    The "experiment" is flawed.
    How do you eliminate/ account for all factors except for god during the experiment?
    If someone dies or survives in this period what shows that it was due to god and god only?
    Where, in the set-up of the experiment, is the time period given?
    Are there other persecuted groups who have not declared any allegiance to god that have undergone (or still undergoing) similar trials and yet managed to get a nation of their own?
    Can you show that this will not be the case in the future (since your experiment appears to be open-ended).
    Etc etc.
     
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  21. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    1. Many peoples have gained a nation, and not all of them were monotheists.
    2. 6 million of them died nationless and penniless, so how is that justice?

    This is the same argument as saying that prayer works. Well, when you point to the one time prayer seemed to have worked, but you ignore all the times it didn't, that's not scientific, that's observer bias.
     
  22. yaracuy Banned Banned

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    I guess you dont realize or you don't want to accept I am speaking strictly about Israel ,
    You don't want to accept the biblical prophecy in the book of Isaia and Ezekiel
     
  23. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Those people have wanted their nation back ever since the Romans took it. That's why it's in their book. That's not a prophecy, that's just nationalism.
     

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