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absolutely!!! there was a day when the thought of the world not being flat was considered a result of minds giving way to witchcraft. the scientific community thought the spiritual were freaks and fools whenever they went off on speaking about energy, but today theoretical physicists have their back on all that good stuff, yes? things are just being worked out... you know... they are "in process".
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It is compatible for most people i think. For me I see God as a creator and in creating the world, he created science and its principles.
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I believe in God, and have no desire or need to reject any scientific theory in order to reconcile this. I accept and respect the fact that science is the best way for us to understand how the universe works. I see no conflict between them.
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Here is an excerpt from a statement by the Universal House of Justice:
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Here is an excerpt from a statement by the Universal House of Justice:
"...religion and science are the two indispensable knowledge systems through which the potentialities of consciousness develop. Far from being in conflict with one another, these fundamental modes of the mind's exploration of reality are mutually dependent and have been most productive in those rare but happy periods of history when their complementary nature has been recognized and they have been able to work together. The insights and skills generated by scientific advance will have always to look to the guidance of spiritual and moral commitment to ensure their appropriate application; religious convictions, no matter how cherished they may be, must submit, willingly and gratefully, to impartial testing by scientific methods."
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Science is either mapping God's creation or simply mapping what spontaneously happened without a God. Some dogmatic outlooks could be clearly argued as disrespectful of current scientific understanding (eg. YEC) but to say 'belief in God' in the question and denote general theism, that's too broad a category to yield no for an answer.
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Only if you define God in a way that goes against 98% of the well known religions.
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I say YES!!! He is the god of all creations he made people with a beautiful mind to show awesome things in the world. Science happens to be one of them.. whats not compatible is how some people would use that power to their own being...Evil people are among us thats my opinion <3
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Absolutely. I'm always amazed by the narrow minded attitude of those who are convinced that either science is evil and is the work of those who are trying to undermine belief in God and those who insist that somehow those of us who both believe in God and respect science are deluding ourselves. Both extremes are ridiculous.
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Always! The Baha'i Faith teaches us to investigate all that science has to teach us about the universe we live in and to learn all we can.
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Clearly so!
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Clearly so!
Indeed: the Baha'i Faith holds the harmony of science and religion (and the importance/necessity of both) as one of its central tenets. :-)
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It is totally compatible speaking from a christian point of view. One of the most controversial scientific arguments against a christian god is the big bang theory vs. creation but nobody every said how fast the big bang had to happen. Plus other events in the bible are found in other historical documents (I.E. World turned dark.) God could create scientific principles and could also break them. Not only this, but some "miracles" are scientifically possible. Most of them probably are but on a level higher than what we can understand at this point which would make sense seeing as God is often seen as omniscient and omnipotent.
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A deist god seems to work fine, but theist gods, to my mind, are entirely at odds with reality. Too much magical thinking required to believe and not enough evidence.
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