Are Science and Faith in Conflict?

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The narrative of science and faith in conflict has become embedded in our culture. But is the story true? Have science and faith always been viewed as conflicting?

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• science
• religion
• evolution
• creationism
• BioLogos
• faith
• Christianity
• conflict
• Genesis
• theology

[Toners777]

Nice video, but its wrong. Mr. Stephen Hawking just said

" God was not needed to create the universe."

My own view is. Science explains how, God explains WHY

[mechanicmike69]

@ivlfounder Just delusional religious fanatics.

[MagisterPridgen]

@RockyBalboa211 My personal view on what matter? I don't even recall what this video was about, however, science and faith are in conflict because reason and guesswork are at odds with one another. Faith means accepting a claim without evidence or in spite of evidence to the contrary, so it is irrational by definition. Faith is not the same as trust or confidence, so don't even try to pull that card.

[RockyBalboa211]

@MagisterPridgen: Could you give your own personal view on the matter?

[RockyBalboa211]

@Toners777: I consider God a scientist. A universal scientist who crafted each molecule and gave scientific rules to the universe. Scientists are so lucky in that they can witness the true beauty of the work that went into the "How".

[Sanquinity]

@KrugmanTheKing I agree. Sure there are people that claim to have evidence for god. But those are always either also explainable without god, or fallacies/misrepresentation of facts. Until there is actual proof for a god, I will not take anyone that says 'god exists' as a fact, seriously.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@Sanquinity

Many problems arise between religion and science; some extremely complicated, others, simpler. But I would stick to one in particular: saying that a divinity exist is a factual statement, just as many other judgments observed as truisms in religious doctrines. Unless you test them, you do no science at all and apply a double standard to suit your beliefs.

They are incompatible for many reasons, but for this one very obviously so.

[doubtingED]

BULLSHIT!

[stayfly1340]

the bible is a science book,the Qur'an is a science book...all of them are science books,but they dont tell us that...

[ClamCrunchy]

3:51 is beautiful

[MagisterPridgen]

@Toners777 That's a shallow and not well thought out or well founded view. Now go back to the drawing board and see if you can do better.

[Sanquinity]

@Toners777 Actually no. God claims to also explain how. Not just why. It's pore apologetics to say that the how and why are explained by different ones. Also, science actually doesn't claim to know. It just says 'this is the most likely answer'. Which is the second huge difference between religion and science. Science doesn't claim to know without a doubt. Religion does.