Q&A - Does science make belief in God harder or easier?

Charleston SC - Darwin Week Debate
Dr. Herb Silverman vs. Dr. Karl Giberson

Does the pursuit of empirical knowledge lead people away from spiritual mysteries? Late in life, Charles Darwin felt his religious belief erode while his theories of evolution grew more robust. Is Western society, like Darwin, destined for a similar fate? Join us for a debate to resolve whether science is a faith-killer or a faith-sustainer.

Dr. Karl Giberson is the president of the BioLogos Foundation, director of Gordon College's Forum on Faith and Science, codirector of the Venice Summer School for Science and Religion, a professor at Eastern Nazarene College, and the author of four books, including his latest Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution.

Dr. Herb Silverman is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the College of Charleston. He founded the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, president of the Secular Coalition for America, a board member of the American Humanist Association, Atheist Alliance International, and Humanist Institute. He is the author of many articles in freethought publications, and is an "On Faith" panelist for the Washington Post online.

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[Atriviality]

@seeyoinrio

I'm an atheist. I don't have any faith in any gods.

allsaintsmonastery is an priest and a biblical scholar. He was saying that if you believe in God, and your belief in God is troubled by science (which is what this video is about), then you don't have faith in God, but instead believe in your religion.

[seeyoinrio]

@Atriviality Could you be more hypocrite ? Is So Clear that religion has programmed a false ideology into you 'couse,in your own words you show that your faith is blind like any faith.Commenting here on youtube,IS participating on the advances of science and,this is the miracle of science;Making the blind see.

[Atriviality]

I think allsaintsmonastery said it best when he said, "if your faith is undermined or shaken by evolution, the knowledge of the age of the earth, and these other advances in science, then I want to submit that you do not have faith. That you only have an idiological religion that has been programmed into you, and that you do not have a living faith in God"

[Greathiway]

Understanding the 'judeochristian' god is mysterious,Yet a Jew might agree and a Christian disagreed on that point since the NT says Yahew's invisible are clear to all.