Anyone else believe in Science AND God?

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#1 sarmini
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Does anybody else believe in a Higher Being creating Humans, but also believe that Science plays a big role in our lives?

I dont know if this is a specific belief or not, but I was just wondering. Its why I got the bar in my sig that has part of the Cross and Believer in my sig. Believe, because I dont follow a particular religion like muslims or christians.

Lol, the reason I asked this is because Ive always refused the belief of a higher being but then somethings just made me start thinking "What in the world, how can this happen?" and that, among other things, kind of pushed me into believing that a God is actually real lol.

Just wondering if anyone else thinks that aswell.

*This is NOT an "Is God Real?!" thread or not. Its just a simple question so please dont think Im asking that lol.

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#2 Napster06
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Yeah. I believe in both. Science can explain to a certain extent. But after that it you start thinking 'there must be a higher being creating all this'
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#3 cell1138
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I do! i have since i was like 6....
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#4 monkeytoes61
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I believe in god, but science is a little too much. It seems like everything just works but there is no clear explanation why.
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#5 sarmini
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Yeah. I believe in both. Science can explain to a certain extent. But after that it you start thinking 'there must be a higher being creating all this'Napster06
Exactly! Lol, the reason I asked this is because Ive always refused the belief of a higher being but then somethings just made me start thinking "What in the world, how can this happen?" and that, among other things, kind of pushed me into believing that a God is actually real lol.
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#6 chrisrooR
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I believe in scientific theory, and i doubt the existence of God.
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#7 Cerussite
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I believe in god, but science is a little too much. It seems like everything just works but there is no clear explanation why. monkeytoes61
You're a confusing individual.
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#8 krunkfu2
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I don't understand how the two co-exist

but I completely understand what you're saying and can truly relate.

Science does explain a lot but it just gets to that one point where you don't get any more answers and you're only left with one possible answer and that answer is a god/goddess or a creator etc.

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#9 hockey73
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yeah i do. idk i always had the idea that God created earth and lets it run on its own(thus the reason for science). every now and then he intervenes, thus the reason we have miracles.
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#10 chrisrooR
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I believe in god, but science is a little too much. It seems like everything just works but there is no clear explanation why. monkeytoes61

ummm...yes there is. :|

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#12 sovereign_22
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nah, im just a man of science
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[QUOTE="Napster06"]Yeah. I believe in both. Science can explain to a certain extent. But after that it you start thinking 'there must be a higher being creating all this'sarmini
Exactly! Lol, the reason I asked this is because Ive always refused the belief of a higher being but then somethings just made me start thinking "What in the world, how can this happen?" and that, among other things, kind of pushed me into believing that a God is actually real lol.

True. Things can't happen randomly. How our Earth is just in the 'perfect' zone in space where its not too hot or cold. And our fingerprints or how the foetus develop from two cells. For all those things to happen randomly, it can't be coincidence. Too big a coincidence for it to happen.

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i leave higher beings as a possibility.
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[QUOTE="sarmini"][QUOTE="Napster06"]Yeah. I believe in both. Science can explain to a certain extent. But after that it you start thinking 'there must be a higher being creating all this'Napster06

Exactly! Lol, the reason I asked this is because Ive always refused the belief of a higher being but then somethings just made me start thinking "What in the world, how can this happen?" and that, among other things, kind of pushed me into believing that a God is actually real lol.

True. Things can't happen randomly. How our Earth is just in the 'perfect' zone in space where its not too hot or cold. And our fingerprints or how the foetus develop from two cells. For all those things to happen randomly, it can't be coincidence. Too big a coincidence for it to happen.

You're saying that out of the millions of billions of galaxies out there, there was absolutely no chance that at least one planet would have life?
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[QUOTE="monkeytoes61"]I believe in god, but science is a little too much. It seems like everything just works but there is no clear explanation why. chrisrooR

ummm...yes there is. :|

are you kidding? everything just "works." The explanations are something I could have just thought of off the top of my head.
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#17 ferrari2001
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Yea I do.. JP2 (John Paul 2) said this exact same thing. That God created humans but he did it through science and that science is in our lives..
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#18 wemhim
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Everyone believes in science. It's people that don't believe in certain parts of provable science. There's a science to how a fire ends with smoke. There's a science to how a scream in a garage ends with an echo. It's some sciences, like the science of evolution, that certain people just don't dig.
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#19 MajorSport
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I whole-heartedly believe in both. However I don't enjoy mass or Communion or anything that goes with reliigon. I just believe there is a God.
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#20 the_crosbie
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my parents are both science professors and both attend church regularily... i believe in the scientific theory though... if there is a creator of everything, i think it would be a group of gods or overseers
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#21 sarmini
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[QUOTE="sarmini"][QUOTE="Napster06"]Yeah. I believe in both. Science can explain to a certain extent. But after that it you start thinking 'there must be a higher being creating all this'Napster06

Exactly! Lol, the reason I asked this is because Ive always refused the belief of a higher being but then somethings just made me start thinking "What in the world, how can this happen?" and that, among other things, kind of pushed me into believing that a God is actually real lol.

True. Things can't happen randomly. How our Earth is just in the 'perfect' zone in space where its not too hot or cold. And our fingerprints or how the foetus develop from two cells. For all those things to happen randomly, it can't be coincidence. Too big a coincidence for it to happen.

I do think Planet Earth got lucky in its placement, but even if Earth wasnt habbitable, then I think God wouldve just found another, and possibly better place to put us IMO. I cant explain the fingerprints, and Ive never heard it explained either, and I watch alot of History and Discover channel :lol: But yea, for the most part I agree
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#22 pintabear49blue
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[QUOTE="chrisrooR"]

[QUOTE="monkeytoes61"]I believe in god, but science is a little too much. It seems like everything just works but there is no clear explanation why. monkeytoes61

ummm...yes there is. :|

are you kidding? everything just "works." The explanations are something I could have just thought of.

there are many explinations of why things work. Give me an example of what you are talking about?

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#23 laughingman42
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Yes. I don't really relate the two though. Science is based physical evidence and empirical evidence, while religion is more of a theological and philisophical thing. I just don't see the conflict there as long as you don't try to take the bible literally.
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#24 Cerussite
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[QUOTE="chrisrooR"]

[QUOTE="monkeytoes61"]I believe in god, but science is a little too much. It seems like everything just works but there is no clear explanation why. monkeytoes61

ummm...yes there is. :|

are you kidding? everything just "works." The explanations are something I could have just thought of off the top of my head.

Look, I don't care if you don't believe in science, but at least have a rudimentary ****ing understanding of what theories are actually proposed by science, instead of being stubborn.
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#25 Helloiseeu
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Sciencetific fact owns religon any day.
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#26 Napster06
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You're saying that out of the millions of billions of galaxies out there, there was absolutely no chance that at least one planet would have life? Cerussite

If things happen randomly, then no. Like I said, there must be 'someone' controlling all this.

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#27 sarmini
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I whole-heartedly believe in both. However I don't enjoy mass or Communion or anything that goes with reliigon. I just believe there is a God.MajorSport
Yea. I dont pray at all. I HATE church. I dont like religion much to be honest. It gives people hope, thats all I like about it. I hate it because it inspires war lol. Although thats not the only thing that inspires war, dont think I mean that lol. But yea, I believe and thats as religious that I get.
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[QUOTE="Cerussite"]You're saying that out of the millions of billions of galaxies out there, there was absolutely no chance that at least one planet would have life? Napster06

If things happen randomly, then no. Like I said, there must be 'someone' controlling all this.

You don't believe in things happening randomly, then?
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[QUOTE="Napster06"]

[QUOTE="Cerussite"]You're saying that out of the millions of billions of galaxies out there, there was absolutely no chance that at least one planet would have life? Cerussite

If things happen randomly, then no. Like I said, there must be 'someone' controlling all this.

You don't believe in things happening randomly, then?

I believe things happen for a reason.

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#30 dodgerblue13
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I think God created the earth, but it doesn't mean I rule out science being involved afterwards. I truely believe in a higher being. However, some scientific changes could take place. Then again, the Big Man Upstairs could [and most likely does] control those occurances. I don't ever take the side of God created everything as is and that's that, but I don't see myself denying my belief of God.
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[QUOTE="Cerussite"][QUOTE="Napster06"]

[QUOTE="Cerussite"]You're saying that out of the millions of billions of galaxies out there, there was absolutely no chance that at least one planet would have life? Napster06

If things happen randomly, then no. Like I said, there must be 'someone' controlling all this.

You don't believe in things happening randomly, then?

Not all. I believe things happen for a reason.

I was just playing Team Fortress 2. I couldn't choose a class, so I decided to press the random button. I spawned as a Pyro.

Did that happen for a reason?

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Sciencetific fact owns religon any day.Helloiseeu

Exactly. We obviously evolved from a fish-frog-monkey hybrid thing.

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[QUOTE="Napster06"][QUOTE="Cerussite"][QUOTE="Napster06"]

[QUOTE="Cerussite"]You're saying that out of the millions of billions of galaxies out there, there was absolutely no chance that at least one planet would have life? Cerussite

If things happen randomly, then no. Like I said, there must be 'someone' controlling all this.

You don't believe in things happening randomly, then?

Not all. I believe things happen for a reason.

I was just playing Team Fortress 2. I couldn't choose a class, so I decided to press the random button. I spawned as a Pyro.

Did that happen for a reason?

Yes, it was a commentary of your life, how you refuse to choose things, you'll just turn your back and let things happen, you're too scared to take advantage of your free will..... :|
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#34 Napster06
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I was just playing Team Fortress 2. I couldn't choose a class, so I decided to press the random button. I spawned as a Pyro.

Did that happen for a reason?

Cerussite

Trivial matters like that are unimportant. But for bigger things, there is

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#35 sarmini
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Lmao.

I NEVER thought I would hear a game, God, and Science mentioned in the same thread. :lol:

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Go ahead and mock me if you want, but this is what I beleive, Allah created the universe in 7(or 6) periods of time, then we live life as a test to god to see if we are truly worthy of going to heaven, if we pass, we go to heaven, if we fail then we go to hell, but with the science part, if you read the Holy Quran english translation, it explains many wodners of earth, and many scientists benifitted from the quran, so that is a science, religion tie in
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[QUOTE="Helloiseeu"]Sciencetific fact owns religon any day.dodgerblue13

Exactly. We obviously evolved from a fish-frog-monkey hybrid thing.

That's not scientific fact. That's still a theory. However, evolution in the sense that our late ancestors couldn't digest lactose is a fact. Also, did you know that gravity is a science? If you honestly don't believe in that, you're a mad man.
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[QUOTE="Napster06"][QUOTE="Cerussite"][QUOTE="Napster06"]

[QUOTE="Cerussite"]You're saying that out of the millions of billions of galaxies out there, there was absolutely no chance that at least one planet would have life? Cerussite

If things happen randomly, then no. Like I said, there must be 'someone' controlling all this.

You don't believe in things happening randomly, then?

Not all. I believe things happen for a reason.

I was just playing Team Fortress 2. I couldn't choose a class, so I decided to press the random button. I spawned as a Pyro.

Did that happen for a reason?

you might become a pyromaniac beause of it...

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#39 sarmini
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Go ahead and mock me if you want, but this is what I beleive, Allah created the universe in 7(or 6) periods of time, then we live life as a test to god to see if we are truly worthy of going to heaven, if we pass, we go to heaven, if we fail then we go to hell, but with the science part, if you read the Holy Quran english translation, it explains many wodners of earth, and many scientists benifitted from the quran, so that is a science, religion tie inmohammad93
Mohammad, Ive never even read the bible, and dont intend to, nor the Quran. Man, youre killing me.
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#40 Agustin_Barrios
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YES! And I hate how people (looking at the thread title) make it seem like it's such an absurd thing to believe in both. I consider them nearly completely irrelevant. I'm no creationist, but I am a Christian. I'm no scientist and I refuse to deny evolution, for I have not studied nearly enough about it to form an opinion on it. Science and Religion are two completely different subjects. Asking your question is like asking "Does anybody believe in Psychology AND Music theory?"
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#41 sarmini
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[QUOTE="dodgerblue13"]

[QUOTE="Helloiseeu"]Sciencetific fact owns religon any day.wemhim

Exactly. We obviously evolved from a fish-frog-monkey hybrid thing.

That's not scientific fact. That's still a theory. However, evolution in the sense that our late ancestors couldn't digest lactose is a fact. Also, did you know that gravity is a science? If you honestly don't believe in that, you're a mad man.

Lol, read his previous post, Im pretty sure he's being passed. Im pretty sure its a fact that Humans and Yeast Cells once had a common ancestor. I dont know if thats relevant, I just remember it from Biology last year :)
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#42 Cerussite
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[QUOTE="Cerussite"]I was just playing Team Fortress 2. I couldn't choose a class, so I decided to press the random button. I spawned as a Pyro.

Did that happen for a reason?

Napster06

Trivial matters like that are unimportant. But for bigger things, there is

Where's the proof that humanity isn't trivial?
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Science show's me how good God is at making things.
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[QUOTE="dodgerblue13"]

[QUOTE="Helloiseeu"]Sciencetific fact owns religon any day.wemhim

Exactly. We obviously evolved from a fish-frog-monkey hybrid thing.

That's not scientific fact. That's still a theory. However, evolution in the sense that our late ancestors couldn't digest lactose is a fact. Also, did you know that gravity is a science? If you honestly don't believe in that, you're a mad man.

Gravity is a theory just like evolution.

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[QUOTE="dodgerblue13"]

[QUOTE="Helloiseeu"]Sciencetific fact owns religon any day.wemhim

Exactly. We obviously evolved from a fish-frog-monkey hybrid thing.

That's not scientific fact. That's still a theory. However, evolution in the sense that our late ancestors couldn't digest lactose is a fact. Also, did you know that gravity is a science? If you honestly don't believe in that, you're a mad man.

Ehh. My fault. I'm not very clear on the evolution thing and I'm not a science man. I just irritates me that people used to argue with me that that's how we came to be and gave no chance of there being a higher being. I'm shushing from now on about this. :P

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ofcourse, I believe in the God of Science =o
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#47 DeeJayInphinity
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How do you not believe in science? :lol: Anyway, I do not believe in a god of the gaps. Science > theology & religion.
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[QUOTE="wemhim"][QUOTE="dodgerblue13"]

[QUOTE="Helloiseeu"]Sciencetific fact owns religon any day.laughingman42

Exactly. We obviously evolved from a fish-frog-monkey hybrid thing.

That's not scientific fact. That's still a theory. However, evolution in the sense that our late ancestors couldn't digest lactose is a fact. Also, did you know that gravity is a science? If you honestly don't believe in that, you're a mad man.

Gravity is a theory just like evolution.

You don't believe in gravity?
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#49 cool_baller
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Yeah, maybe God created science and through science created the universe as we know it.
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#50 ElArab
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That's EXACTLY what I believe, I just say I'm Agnostic for short, it seems to fit the explenation pretty well.