Don't Get Me Started On- Irrational Beliefs Faith is highly anachronistic aspect of the world today. . Science changes it's views based on what is observed in order to create the best model to explain the world around us, whereas religion is the denial of the said observations in order to preserve an irrational belief. Christianity for example, is based on a book written around 2,000 years ago. The genesis story alone supplies more than enough theoretical fuel to keep an atheist's argument burning.
Many cultures and ancient civilizations have their own theories as to how life began on earth. Some cultures say gods and goddesses created life, in modern times however some suggest that we came through outer space. Biologists do not have a great knowledge as to how life has come about but they are slowly unraveling this mystery thanks to advances in technology. Before examining modern ideas about the origins of life, it is important to see the traditional views on how life began. Many cultures believed that gods or goddesses created life.
Todays society is steadly envolving and the views on how the Universe works today is a total different story on how people thought it worked back then. Science is starting to explain things that religion use to explain on how the Universe works. People are getting more educated and becoming more indifferent on the teachings of Genisus in the bible. Gensus tells us that the Earth was made in seven days and it only a several thousand years old, and that humans were
Some of the concerns still creating controversy include matters dealing with how life began and evolved, relations and sex, and various research methods. Life’s beginnings and the way it evolved have two different points-of-view according to science and religion. The religious belief is the concept of creationism, that all things, including humans, were created and put on the earth by God. The scientific belief is that the universe was created by a concept called the Big Bang, which in simple terms was a giant explosion that created all of the planets, stars, living creatures, etc. Science also believes that humans were not around at the beginning of life, but that they later evolved from various animals after adapting adaptations to help better suit them to the environment.
Scientist developed many of their own personal opinions about creation. In the early 19th century there were three views of earth history: Catastrophists, Uniformitarians and the Scriptural Geologists (T. Mortenson, 2003). The article points out that the Scriptural Geologists studied the earth and Biblical scripture extensively while forming their theory on earth’s creation and debunking old-earth theories. Scriptural Geologists believe the Bible is an accurate account of the earth’s six twenty-four hour day creation. The article further contends that scientist opinions are based on their individual worldviews.
By opening his article with what sounds like a believed and conclusive opinion statement “Everyone takes for granted that the universe and earth are billions of years old” (Mortensen 2005 para. 1), Mortensen creates a confusing hypocrisy to his later closing remarks about his belief in God and a need for scripture. He also makes some alarming assumptions in his statement that the “last one hundred-seventy years have confirmed scriptural geologists worst fears”. (Mortensen 2005 para. 28) He supports this statement with an opinion that the West is in a state of social and moral decline from drug abuse, sexual immorality, violence, etc.
The research and testing is done to either prove or disprove the hypothesis. This research is used to make a prediction and a theory as to why something happened is developed. Dr. E. Stanley Jones states “Prior to the age of science, truth was determined philosophically, by debate. But the scientific method has brought the search for truth out of the lecture hall and into the laboratory.” (Christianity.com 2013). However, the scientific method is only a way of seeking the truth.
Some believe in the evolution theory that science created human beings. Others believe in the creation theory; they believe in some sort of God or intelligent design created the earth and humans. Who knows the real truth? Why does this subject stir up so much controversy? There has always been much attention about our origins as people.
“Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment”. There are many ways I can prove that science is not more credible than the bible but today I will only provide three shocking reasons. Firstly, the discoveries of archeologist proving stories in the bible to be true,secondly; the many miracles of healing that have doctors speechless and thirdly, the flaws in the big bang theory. The story of Noah's Ark and the Great Flood is one of the most famous stories from the Bible, and one of the best known underwater archaeologist, Robert Ballard sat in an interview with Christiane Amanpour from ABC News talking about his findings. Ballard's track record for finding the impossible is well known, especially finding an ark looking exactly like noahs.
But in the New Testament, each book was most likely written by the person. In the Bible, one major meaning portrayed from the beginning to the very end is the constant aloofness between God and man and how the space decreases the further you read. There are many examples to show the growing gap of praise to the creator, “And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”(Genesis 6:5). This shows that god only saw pure evil in almost all of man on earth except for in Noah, this view of mans inexplicable wickedness led to the elimination of man by means of The Flood. It was for 40 days and 40 nights and then had man rebuild itself, “And the Lord smelled sweet savour; and the lord said in his heart, I