It is not a reliable way. This includes reasoning and making predictions without further testing. Faith is another way that a lot of Christian believers us to seek the truth. The faith based way of seeking the truth is different from the scientific method in that it can answer a lot of questions about the most important truths. (Religious-Science.com 2008) The truths about the purpose of life and that our creator, God wants us to be happy and that he has a plan for each one of us.
For example, a teenager who has friends that are aggressive. That teenager can change his behaviour and come also aggressive due to the environment influences that he is around nearly everyday of the individual’s life.There are debates that argue that people are shaped by biology and genetics. The nurture that if it is the social, economic or environmental influences around a person that makes them a certain way, such as life experience. Some say that social life is the most important factor in determining who are and how we behave. The nature or nurture debate is concerned the with the contributions of genetic inheritance, and environmental factors to human development.
English 102 Brittany Daigle Dr. Trahan 09/16/2011 Brittany Daigle Dr. Trahan English 102 09/16/2011 Christianity Religions, or belief systems, are perhaps the strongest force in society. Christianity is the main religion in America, and is what American morals are surrounded by; even though our founding fathers clearly stated” As the Government of the United Stated of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”. (The Treaty of Tripoli) Christianity has influenced American culture for years. Most people will view Christianity in modern society as positive, but there are revolutionists that view religion as a whole as negative and can ruin our society. Christianity is a teaching based on the life
During this time vertebras were developed, which included fish, amphibians, and reptiles. Plants also evolved so they could exist on the land the land which changed the oxygen content and allowed great sizes of animals and plants to exist. The Devonian period is known as the Age of the Fish. It was named after Devon, England; which is where rocks from this period were first studied. During this period the land masses began to change as they approached one another.
There are more than seven billion people on our planet and each individual has a different belief, but why is it that faith as an individual is such a controversial topic? Why can’t faith be used as a basis of knowledge? The answer is more difficult then it may seem, some people believe that faith cannot be used as the basis to get knowledge simply because there is no sustantial evidence of explaining it, because it cannot be shown, therefore a fallible source. For that reason, people choose the more scientific approach because it provides evidence. This undoubtly is the quitessential what the Natural Sciences is based upon.
Those believing that evolution should not be taught in classrooms feel that the concept of evolution contradicts one of the concepts promoted by the Bible, known as creationism, or “Creation Science.” Creation Science is a component of Christian fundamentalism that believes Biblical views must be taught in all school subjects, particularly science. Those that believe in creationism believe that the Bible must be interpreted literally, and thus some can still be found that believe that the earth is flat, space flight is a conspiracy, the sun revolves around the earth, or that grasshoppers have four legs, since the Bible describes each of these matters and it must be taken literally (Young, Why Creation Science Must Be Kept Out Of The Classroom). Hence, creationists do not believe in evolution, since the Book of Genesis states that the earth, and all the species within it (including humans), was created by a Supernatural Hand
The development of Intelligent Design is rooted in the political arena rather than scientific endeavor. Even with given modern scientific advances, teaching evolutionary theory in public schools is still infamously controversial. The main argument stems from contradictions to long-held interpretations of man’s creation in the Book of Genesis and the views of Protestant fundamentalists in the legislative branches of government (Lugg and Robinson). After years of legislative and legal debate, the courts ultimately ruled the state could not extract a scientific theory from school curriculums because of the theory’s apparent contradiction to religious doctrine (Lugg and
Society is very complex and in practice it would be impossible to control variables that may influence a situation. Therefore although the ability to control variables in laboratory conditions may be seen as a positive/ advantageous, it on the other hand produces a completely artificial environment which would likely never take place in reality. In this sense field experiments would be a better experimental method as favoured by
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. Darwin’s concept of “survival of the fittest” comes in to play with that belief that those who have adapted to the changes around them will have the best chance to survive. The concept of evolution is often a topic of great controversy, especially in the public school system. Many religious enthusiasts do not want their children being taught that they are decedents of monkeys or other creatures, rather than of the first humans, Adam and Eve, that were created by God. As evolution is part of science, and science is part of the school system, the compromise is often that instructors are not allowed to teach evolution if they try to preach it is the truth and that religious views are invalid.
“Science is right & religion is wrong.” I personally, believe that this statement is not correct. This is because, there are some phenomenons in this world and in this universe that science can’t explain but religion however can- an example of this is would be the Mayan civilization; They predicted many of the natural disasters that came to be and they were far more advanced than us. This clearly proves that science is not always right and religion is not always wrong. Most Muslims would contradict this statement. This is due to the fact that Muslims believe that we (Humanity) are in the progress of learning and that we will come to understand the truth one day.