Can science disprove religion or vice-versa? See what others across the world have to say.
Questions for Discussion and Personal Reflection
- Do you think religion and science are separate things?
- How does science challenge or support your belief system?
I don't think you can disprove, disprove the idea of a god through science, so so I don't know whether it supports it or not, but it can't disprove it.
I just can't believe that this world was done by accident. It's just so phenomenal— all the intricacies of the human body and how everything works— it just, I have to have faith that it was by design.
To, to think that scientists could maybe sit in a laboratory or go out and collect data somewhere to be able to find this existence of a god, I think that would be, might be a bit of a challenge.
I think that science and God cannot be proven or disproven within the scientific method because it's all based on proving a hypothesis.
For instance with the big bang theory— that was invented by a Catholic monk— we thought it proved the existence of God, because if you go back far enough all there is is this energy force that at one point started acting, and he thought that that energy force was God.
The whole concept of God is something that's personal to each person so how can you disprove it? And it's something that, depending on your belief system, it's something that can't be proven anyways.
I don't think science can necessarily prove religion or religion prove science. I think they're two separate, completely separate things.
I don't think that science has given us answers to love and happiness. I think it's in each person to decide, really.
The universe itself is so much more infinitely complex than we can even imagine. That alone is, is enough for many lifetimes of wonder, and you don't have to postulate some supreme being.
Even though science is explaining things, it's not explaining why the things are there, and for those people, belief in a higher power starts to make more sense and not less. For other people, it goes the other way around.