Faith AND Science

[rpfan76]

I don't get it. I'm pretty sure I know if I jump out a window I'm gonna hit the ground. I don't think anybody takes gravity on faith. It may take faith to believe gravity will still be here tomorrow and the day after, but as of right now I "know" it's here.

[Ciscokid]

I don't get it. I'm pretty sure I know if I jump out a window I'm gonna hit the ground. I don't think anybody takes gravity on faith. It may take faith to believe gravity will still be here tomorrow and the day after, but as of right now I "know" it's here.

I was just pointing out that the statement "the earth hangs on nothing" is really not scientifically accurate. Gravity is very much a 'something'.

[MorningGlory]

I don't get it. I'm pretty sure I know if I jump out a window I'm gonna hit the ground. I don't think anybody takes gravity on faith. It may take faith to believe gravity will still be here tomorrow and the day after, but as of right now I "know" it's here.

I was just pointing out that the statement "the earth hangs on nothing" is really not scientifically accurate. Gravity is very much a 'something'.

Of course that statement isn't 'scientifically accurate'. The Bible isn't a science book.

[e lansing]

Name me something you take on faith that science proves.

Consider this, Job 26:7, the oldest book in the bible, Job ststed that the earth hangs on nothing. Science has proven that that nothing that Job was talking about we know now as gravity. Job knew this brfore electricity was discovered. Jobs faith and science proved him true in his statement!

Actually 'gravity' is something. If you don't believe me, take an elevator to the top floor of a very tall building and jump out a window. If you refer to something as "nothing" because it's invisible then that has extremely harmful theological implications.

you misunderstood my point. We know now what gravity is through science. Job had no idea what gravity was and yet he knew that the planet hung on what appeared to be nothing. Unless you are just telling me to jump off a building because you hate the fact that science helps reasures what i believe from the Bible

[OneLight]

By faith, we believe that God is the creator of all that is created and that man will never find the creations smallest element. In proving this, scientist continue to make more powerful means to see something smaller then what they had already discovered, proving that we continue to discover His hand in the unseen.

By faith, we believe that God created the universe so vast and magnificent that man will never understand it in its fullest. Science continues to prove this as they create better means to explore places further away then previously seen.

Faith and science do have a lot in common, yet people continue to divide it with their terminology and ideals.

[Ciscokid]

you misunderstood my point. We know now what gravity is through science. Job had no idea what gravity was and yet he knew that the planet hung on what appeared to be nothing. Unless you are just telling me to jump off a building because you hate the fact that science helps reasures what i believe from the Bible

No I didn't mean anything serious by the "jump off a building" statement, I was just making a point.

[e lansing]

By faith, we believe that God is the creator of all that is created and that man will never find the creations smallest element. In proving this, scientist continue to make more powerful means to see something smaller then what they had already discovered, proving that we continue to discover His hand in the unseen.

By faith, we believe that God created the universe so vast and magnificent that man will never understand it in its fullest. Science continues to prove this as they create better means to explore places further away then previously seen.

Faith and science do have a lot in common, yet people continue to divide it with their terminology and ideals.

onelight - I couldn't agree more! I love science and I love God, obviously one more than the other;)

science is so fascinating and it shows the uniqueness of God. His diversity and His perfect order. everything is balanced. we cannot go any smaller than the human cell to take one bit of it away and it would not function. yet the human cell is so complex and so intricate it could only be created by a great designer.

[kimberly84]

I continue to be mystified by this debate. Maybe this is because I grew up in a secular environment but I have never felt any conflict in science and faith.

[OneLight]

The human body is a perfect place to see the mysteries of Gods hand in creation. To see a cell, it has to be magnified x10,000, to see the cromosome inside a cell, it has to be magnified x100,000 times. To get the first look at DNA, it has to be magnified x500,000 times. To see how the DNA is held together, it has to be magnified x5,000,000 times. Science will strive to look even closer to see inside the makeup of the DNA, into its bases and more. Here is a link that is very interesting, visually seeing from a cell to a DNA strand. How small is DNA?

To better understand how much information the DNA holds, I suggest this very quick and enlightening article. Is God Real? Why the DNA structure points to God... This article puts into plain English, even I can read it, and compares the programming of the DNA to that of a computer. A short piece as a teaser ...

To grasp the amount of DNA information in one cell, "a live reading of that code at a rate of three letters per second would take thirty-one years, even if reading continued day and night."³ Wait, there's more.

[kimberly84]

Thank you Yeddy, for replying to my post. It's nice to be part of the conversation.

I think a lot of misunderstanding about the compatibility of faith and science comes because some on the faith side don't understand the science and some on the science side don't understand faith.

I have to disagree with you when you say that it takes faith to beleive in a theory. Theories are built up over time through observation, hypothesis, experimentation and rejection or non-rejection of hypothesis. The theories that exsist today have withstood repeated experimentation and have changed as new discoveries have been made.

I don't believe in evolution on faith. I believe in evolution because the scientific evidence, so far, has support it and hasn't disproven it. My choice to follow Jesus, on the other hand, has everything to do with faith.