• Question: What do you believe created 'us'? God or Science?

    Asked by cewwen to Michaela, Louise, Sian, Steve, Yvette on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by lozzie, beatrice44.
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      Michaela Livingstone answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Science hasn’t created anything, science simply strives to find out how things work. But anyway, despite being brought up in a fairly religious Mormon household, I myself am not religious. I hold no beliefs as to where we came from. We are here, that much can be said, but whether you go back to the big bang or what, no one has any definitive answers. You can go back and back and back. For now I hold the opinion that science holds the key as to what is the most feasible explanation for who we are and how the universe works, but I doubt we’ll ever have a reason WHY. But I’m not the kind of person who can rely on fairth – I need evidence. Sometimes I doubt science! I suppose that’s part of what’s driven me to science, constantly asking questions! Do we really need a resaon why? Random things happen all the time, perhaps our universe is one of them 🙂

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      Louise Johnson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I don’t believe in God but it’s not really an either/or question. I know excellent scientists who have strong faiths (and of several different faiths) and they don’t feel you have to reject science to believe in God. And I know other scientists who insist that believing in God is totally unscientific. It’s something you have to come to your own conclusions about.

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      Steven Kiddle answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I don’t believe in a God, but science is a subject not a thing. Science didn’t create us, but the things we study science can show the processes through which we were created, but you can never rule out the possibility that those processes were set in motion by a God to create us. I think that a literal interpretation of bible is incompatible with what we have learned from science, but a belief in a god isn’t.

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      Yvette Wilson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      so far my life experiences have not been consistent with there being a God (at least as portrayed by religions that I know of so far). I’m not ruling it out though. For me there is solid evidence for evolution, but I don’t understand what happened before the universe was created.

Comments

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    cewwen commented on :

    Louise, I think that your comments were quite insulting. I got the idea that you thought my question wasnt good enough for your expertise, that make me feel kind of stupid about myself, please can you try to be more considerate and positive towards me and other students participating in this programme.

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      Louise commented on :

      Cewwen, I’m sorry – I must have stated my answer very badly. I didn’t at all mean it that way. I meant exactly the opposite, that I have NO expertise on this subject.

      I do think a literal reading of the Bible is incompatible with science, but most Christians read their Bibles in a more sophisticated way. (I haven’t studied any other holy texts so can’t comment on them.)

      BUT there are a huge range of religious and philosophical views out there – atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, Hindus, and Christians can all be excellent scientists – and I do NOT consider myself any more qualified than you are to say which of those is correct.

      That’s what I meant when I said it’s something you have to come to your own conclusions about.

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    lilneicey commented on :

    that is a very good question….