Could Science be proved right in the end?

Quote by flower411
i do not see it as a contradiction, i have posted elsewhere on why i believe in evolution and the big bang.
Since it merely recieved snide remarks i wont repeat the arguements,but will say that religions are called faith for a reason.
Or as Douglas Adams put it
.Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book one of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series), p 50

Quote by flower411
i do not see it as a contradiction, i have posted elsewhere on why i believe in evolution and the big bang.
Since it merely recieved snide remarks i wont repeat the arguements,but will say that religions are called faith for a reason.
Or as Douglas Adams put it
.Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book one of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series), p 50

Quote by Theladyisaminx
I believe we all have a fasination about how we came to be and where will we go, what created us the creator V The Big band theory, and Darwins theory of evolution.
I watched a programme recently about Stephen Hawking and the big bang, and in my mind it all made sense to me. But I realise people have their own beliefs and respect them for it, but after talking to practicing friend I do get an impression that a lot of people are questioning the creator but believe and practise about religon for other reason, more the community aspect as a meeting place seems to be the reasons rather that totally believing other aspects.
I just wondered with todays technology and the rapid speed that science is working, would one day (maybe not in our lifetime)thoughts change?
Could science have the answers?

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Science can (and presumably eventually will) prove anything that is provable. What is provable at any time is dependent on our ability to measure, test, replicate etc etc. All the usual rigorous investigation that we are able to apply. You can argue that we can't prove anything absolutely and some things are forever in the realms of Heisenburg's Uncertainty principle and other wierd stuff at the edge of our (current) abilities. But, quite frankly, is the full scheme of things, do the more esoteric theroetical physics things truly matter? I doubt it. Breakthroughs the investigations produce ARE significant, including the development of high spead communications.
Faith proves nothing, beyond the ability of humans to beleive in things that are currently unproved. That isn't a bad thing in itself, even scientists have to have faith that what they are trying will work, is valuable etc etc. But it cannot be a replacement for fact, knowledge or even experience.
On the God question. I don't see any reason to belirve in God. Why? Because really shit, vile, horrible things happen to totally innocent people. Babies are born with their guts on the outside, Altzheimers destroys a person 20 years before they die, natural disasters result in families being destroyed etc etc etc.
So either there is no God - or if there is one, it is either incompetent (in which case isn't a god) or is a vile bastard that enjoys watching babies die slow agonising deaths (in which case does not deserve acknowledgement let alone worship).

"if the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been ground for religion: it must always have been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held"

Quote by Theladyisaminx
Could science have the answers?

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Could science have the answers?

Quote by duncanlondon
Maybe not. Or we probably won't be able to comprehend quite what science has created for us in the end.
We already create devices with so many functions they baffle us. most modern cars can't be serviced at the roadside, we rely on technology we don't understand or know how to fix easily.
technology is making us lazy and weak, we would be useless in a real emergency, many of us would perish quickly.
so at some point there will be diminishing returns from science and it won't change what's already there or what is destined to happen, it can only observe and utilise what exists.

Quote by Kaznkev
You can see this in the way people use and misuse stats all the time,or bandy around words like proof.i cannot prove God exists,but do not feel the need is vital.

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You can see this in the way people use and misuse stats all the time,or bandy around words like proof.i cannot prove God exists,but do not feel the need is vital.