Krunk said:
I my self have never believed in god. I am confused with how you can belive in some thing that not consistent in any way. and what is exactly is free will??? i have been reading up on religon and science to figure out which one is right. so far science has been winning to be honest. Fact is my detrming factor and i was wondering if you could give me you side of the story.:help:
It would be good to keep in mind the role and scope of religious and scientific testimony. Science studies nature to determine how nature works, and is limited to the natural realm. Religion can be a systematic belief system based upon divine revelation, as is the case for Christianity and Judaism, or it can be a philosophy like Bhuddism. Where religion is based upon belief in the divine, scientific method cannot be used to verify the belief, unless of course the religious belief touches nature.
The Christian and Jewish religion touch nature by claiming that their God interacts with history; the historical facts of the case can be analyzed, but science still cannot determine of God actually worked in the case because there is no test that can verify the divine, if indeed the divine exists as Creator and not as the created (nature).
Therefore, you should not regard religion as correct and science as wrong or vice versa, the two fields are not mutually exclusive. Since science cannot demonstate that the divine exists, no scientific fact can be used to say most probably that God exists or not. However, where religion tries to dictate science, science can disprove religion.