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''Religion discovered truth and science '' Did it really, did god specifically told people in the bible about the scientific method?

''When we had little understanding of our world, we needed something to hold on to, to explain the phenomenons we couldn't understand, so we made up a lot of believe systems, some of which evolved into what we now call religion. This was long before man had any understanding of how to to explain these phenomenons by investigating, experimenting and proving what one thinks.

All religion when it was conceived was meant to be peaceful and make people aware of their responsibilities towards one another. Sadly people misused it all the time for all kind of reasons, e.g. to obtain control over the population, power, greed etc. Historically speaking the clergy sadly have often condoned this, or even were active in promoting this misuse of religion.

Usually religion requires it's followers to adhere to unproven dogma's, which is OK with me since belief is something that can't be proven, and if it gives you strength and guidance, by all means, follow it.
What I object to is the insistance of some to convert the so called non believers, sometimes by coercion or by force.

Because of this religion has often in the past stood in the way of scientific advancement, because what scientists found didn't fit the dogma. Just think of Galileo Galilei, who was threatened with a ban when he proposed the view that earth was not the centre of the universe.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal...

Everything we have archieved what makes our lives better, more enjoyable and easier has not come to us through religion, like Jon Davis and William Jackson wrote, but through science e.g. technology, economic development, healthcare.
Fundamentalistic religion has even made life less enjoyable for it's followers, as enjoying life would be a sin!''

https://www.quora.com/Does-religion-slow-down-human-advancement-in-science-and-technology

You don't know if there are places where they don't exist. You also don't know that god made those things either. You also don't know if they could exist without god.

God is an example of things that people believe it's true yet they haven't really shown that it is even possible for it to exist.

You are kinda off in your thinking, as usual.

''all the time-proven remedies for health and wise living are found in religious writings'' I don't follow your logic, even if indeed those remedies that you have provided no evidence for, work, what do they have to do with religion? Those are things that people took at the time to try to heal themselves, it has nothing to do with religion, did god tell them about the remedies or whats your argument here?

''Nature is too complex for modern medicine to build much of any health.'' I don't get this part either, you are saying our medicine today is not far far far better than it was 2000 years ago?

''Even scientists of today are using info found in these records to enhance their capabilities'' Like what?

This is where the difference exists. Cause and effect, complexity, and entropy exist all over the place in abundance of operations, many of which are repeatable by mankind if he simply copies nature. Yet the source of these has never been found by science, and they could only exist in nature as they do if God existed and made them.

Big Bang, or factual knowledge of what black holes are, are examples of things that people believe to be true, yet these haven't really been shown to be able to be made to exist even once. And if we have come close to making them, we have used C&E, entropy, and complexity to do it... not knowing where C&E, complexity, and entropy really come from, or how they work together as they do.

So, existence proves God, there is no proof for much of science (at least percentage-wise when comparing with C&E, entropy, and complexity), and religion - especially religious history - shows the ways for people to live peacefully and healthily.

If you had simply thought about it a little, you wouldn't have had to suggest such simplistic things.

As my previous post that you quoted indicates, all the time-proven remedies for health and wise living are found in religious writings. Why are they found in religion? Because that is where people recorded them when they found that they worked. Religion is the backbone of health... not science.

Nature is too complex for modern medicine to build much of any health. Someday maybe. But religious records from the ancient past still work. Even scientists of today are using info found in these records to enhance their capabilities.

Religion discovered truth and science

"Even we knowers of today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by the thousand-year-old faith, the Christian faith which was also Plato's faith, that God is truth; that truth is divine". ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

1. Nobody knows that there is not some math or something happening that makes god impossible to have happened
2. Just because god is possible to happen doesnt mean it did
3. God doesn't account for many of the things that happen in our universe so nobody knows if it actually fits or not

So what are the discoveries? What has religion found out in the last 5000 years?

LOL! You talk so silly.

Consider the science of Big Bang Theory, which many people have come to believe as truth. The one truth of it is the math behind it. Among the many things that discredit it are these:
1. Nobody knows that there is not some math, or some happening, that makes BB impossible to have happened;
2. Just because a BB is possible to happen, nobody knows that this is the way that our universe happened;
3. BB doesn't account at all for many of the multitudes of things that go on in the universe, so nobody knows if it could actually fit the universe or not.

In other words, much of the most popular science out there is mostly religion... because people believe it without having any direct knowledge of the possibility or probability of it. Modern media, which runs with all kinds of fantastic science stories, and blows them all out of proportion, has turned science into a religion, and many scientists, basking in the glory of being demigods for a day, go right along with it.

Yet it is often the religions that keep the politicians from using some of the most disastrous scientific devices ever made, to destroying the earth.

You are kinda off in your thinking, as usual.

What are you even going on about? If religion hadn't produced results, people would have forgotten about it long ago.

One of the most warmongering religions of today - Islam, https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx - has wonderful peace truths in it. These peace truths aren't things that work by accident. They are used because they have been tested out and work.

When you consider the Bible, one of the most peaceful of religions, its strength is very great. How do we know? Because the nation of Israel has been around for something like 3,500 years, and is one of the smallest, yet one of the strongest nations today. Do you think such happens by accident? The science of the Bible may not be the same as the science of modern science, but Bible science is stronger. Israel and America and Western Europe are examples of this.

Religion is stronger than science, and produces better results, both direct and indirect. The Internet shows this all over the place. The libraries are full of books that show this all over the place.

As usual, you are kinda backwards in your thinking.

LOL!

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Do your own searches. You can find loads of people who doctors lie to about their condition. In addition, there are many who doctors make honest mistakes about what they diagnose.

Something like 800,000 people die in hospitals a year. If they stayed home, many of them would not have died... way beyond the time that it took them to die in the hospital.

Consider placebo effect. Studies show that something like 30% to 33% of people react to placebo and placebo-like effects. People get well on religious faith all the time. Many more never get sick because of religious faith. Even if there were no God intervening for people, placebo and placebo-like effects from their religion would heal them and keep them healthy.

You simply aren't getting it right in almost everything you say.

Many times i've got problems because of religion to be honest. Maybe i'm unlucky but everytime i'm trying to go in church something bad happening to me.

The question of life outside our solar system is a trivial one. Finding the answer is simply a matter of overcoming a technical challenge. If nothing else physically inspecting all the stars in our own galaxy either directly or more realistically via proxy would go a long way towards answering the question. Other galaxies would be more difficult but still the problem remains a solvable technical challenge.

The fact that the solution is currently beyond us simply highlights our primitiveness. For the ancient Romans launching an object into orbit would have been similarly overwhelming.  Two thousand years of later and the problem becomes very manageable. Now we have eccentric billionaires launching their cars into space as advertising gimmicks.

Proof does take away our freedom to choose. There is obvious and direct proof that the earth is round and the existence of this proof takes away our freedom to believe otherwise. The only way to believe that the earth is flat is to descend into incoherence and self deception. There is a long thread here at Bitcointalk by a flat earth advocate where such incoherence is on clear display.

Freedom is not the only factor when determining good. For example, there are times when it is necessary to deny freedom to preserve life and the potential for later freedom. My infant daughter likes to crawl around everywhere exploring every nook and cranny. Whenever someone opens the front door she makes a beeline for it hoping to get outside. She gets angry and starts crying when you close the door blocking her way out. She does not understand that there is a busy road outside our house and that crawling on it could be fatal. It is a freedom she cannot handle.

I tend to view divine revelation in the same way. The fact that it can be necessary is more likely a sign of human infancy and failure rather then triumph. Its an indication that we simply lack the wisdom to discover God on our own. Perhaps it is the divine equivalent of closing the front door in front of a humanity crawling towards the busy road. The rise of Christianity immediately before Israel turned inward and destroyed itself in a futile confrontation with a Roman empire at its peak can be viewed through a similar lens. Matthew 21:33-40 is interesting to read with this in mind.

You take the position that there is no point in believing any of the big claims if they cannot be falsified. This is not a fully coherent position. The very act of living life requires us to act out worldviews. At the foundation of these worldviews is one of two things 1) A coherent apriori Truth that cannot be falsified or 2) An incoherent mismatch of poorly thought out, possibly false, possibly self contradictory concepts.

Taking the position that you are not going to make a decision on any of the big apriori claims without evidence places you in category #2 by default as you have no choice but to live your life on a day to day basis and that requires making decisions which at their foundation trace back to those same undefined, and perhaps incoherent concepts.

Nihilism is coherent or at least beyond my ability to falsify. That is why it is so prevalent so dangerous and the logical result of rejecting the infinite. I am of the opinion that nihilism leads to cessation and death but I cannot prove it only highlight the multiple hints that this is the case as I have done in this thread.

It is true that scientists take certain things on faith. It is also true that religious narratives might speak to human needs that scientific theories can’t hope to satisfy.

And yet, scientific practices—observation and experiment; the development of falsifiable hypotheses; the relentless questioning of established views—have proven uniquely powerful in revealing the surprising, underlying structure of the world we live in, including subatomic particles, the role of germs in the spread of disease, and the neural basis of mental life.

Religion has no equivalent record of discovering hidden truths.

There are many religious views that are not the product of common-sense ways of seeing the world. Consider the story of Adam and Eve, or the virgin birth of Christ, or Muhammad ascending to heaven on a winged horse. These are not the product of innate biases. They are learned, and, more surprisingly, they are learned in a special way.

To come to accept such religious narratives is not like learning that grass is green or that stoves can be hot; it is not like picking up stereotypes or customs or social rules. Instead, these narratives are acquired through the testimony of others, from parents or peers or religious authorities. Accepting them requires a leap of faith, but not a theological leap of faith. Rather, a leap in the mundane sense that you must trust the people who are testifying to their truth.

Many religious narratives are believed without even being understood. People will often assert religious claims with confidence—there exists a God, he listens to my prayers, I will go to Heaven when I die—but with little understanding, or even interest, in the details. The sociologist Alan Wolfe observes that “evangelical believers are sometimes hard pressed to explain exactly what, doctrinally speaking, their faith is,” and goes on to note that “These are people who believe, often passionately, in God, even if they cannot tell others all that much about the God in which they believe.”

It’s better to get a cancer diagnosis from a radiologist than from a Ouija Board.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/why-scientific-faith-isnt-the-same-as-religious-faith/417357/

You are finally coming to see the light... somewhat. "Faith is meaningless." Over 2,000 years ago Solomon wrote in the Bible that everything is meaningless.

Why is faith and everything else meaningless? Because it is all that we have. We live by nothing else, because we are not smart enough to know what will happen even in the next second. Sure, our experience suggests things that really DO happen. But we don't know that they will. So, we are meaningless right along with our faith.

Faith is meaningless, and people who live by faith (every last person on the earth) are meaningless right along with faith.

So, why is faith so important to religious people? Because God knows everything. He looks at the faith of people, and wherever that faith is directed, He makes things happen according to that faith. We don't make anything happen by faith or in any other way. God is the One Who directs everything, and makes it happen according to our faith and His desires.

Since you don't want to believe in God, you have faith in all kinds of other things. But mostly you have faith that you don't really know anything, because you don't know if anything that you have faith in is correct or not. Why don't you know? Because you and all other people are not smart enough. Yet faith is all that you really have.

God will give you what you are asking for in the way you maintain the faith you have. What is it that you are asking for? Absence from God. That is what Hell is basically about. The pain of a fiery Hell comes about because you don't understand what you really are. The fiery Hell is God smelting the essence of YOU down into your component parts so that He gets His power back that He put into you. Why is it about fire? Because some of the essence of God is like fire, and He placed some of His essence in you... but you reject it when you reject Him. Since you don't want it, He will smelt you down in Hell and get it back from you... unless you change. There is still time for you to change. But if you don't change, one day it will be too late.

Health and religion are very interconnected.Religious well being can lead to enjoy good health.In the case when an individual fails seek,his religious faith in the God he or she serves can help recovery faster.Health and religion have a lot in common.Some people believe that by praying to their object of worship in the event of sickness, they will get better.Enjoying healthy life and having faith help the human body to function well.

''Faith is essentially the only way to the truth. Will the plane crash or not? We have faith one way or the other. But whatever our faith is, it leads to the truth. Why? Because the plane crashes or it doesn't. And we see the truth, even if it is only for a moment before we die in the crash.'' What? Even if you had no faith one way or the other the plane would still crash or not, you find out because you are there, you don't need faith to find it if the plane is going to crash lol, faith is meaningless, I have faith it wont crash but it does, meaning that having faith in something doesn't mean that something is going to happen.

''Had you been given that direct proof it would have been at the cost of your freedom to choose and define who you are.'' Absolutely wrong, that's like saying if someone gives me direct proof that the earth is round he is taking my freedom away to choose between a flat earth or a round earth. Also many religious people claim that god himself appeared to them so, wouldn't that take their freedom away by your logic?

I'm not sure I understand your last question, english is not my first language (it's my third and I'm still learning) and philosophical talk is hard for me to understand. At the end of the day I can make all sorts of claims that cannot be falsified, right now at least. Like there is life outside our galaxy. I personally think that there is no point in believing any of the claims, specially big ones if they can't be falsified or proven for that matter.

Had you been given that direct proof it would have been at the cost of your freedom to choose and define who you are. You would no longer be a free and autonomous agent but a passive one your beliefs compelled your will largely suppressed by something greater then yourself.  

The situation is more subtle then simply picking one religion and rejecting the rest as false. Accepting for a moment the reality of the infinite it follows logically that all human conceptions of God and consequentially all religions must be "wrong" in that they are at best distorted reflections of underlying Truth. At most they are akin to an explanation of quantum mechanics given to 4 year old and even this example understates the vast chasm between reality and our understanding. The choice then is not choosing which religion is right but choosing which religion represents the least distorted simplification.

The purpose of the Bible as I understand it is to be a functional and transformative document. It must "work" for both illiterate tribal societies who lived in conditions we cannot imagine, for modern educated man, and for a future humanity vastly more sophisticated then we are. The broad range of conditions sharply reduces the way knowledge can be conceptualized in the book.

There are many aspect of the Bible that appear designed to be easily grasped by a simplistic and primitive man. These can be less persuasive to modern sensibilities. However, there is also a massive depth to both the concept of God and to the Bible itself. Its like a fractal and the deeper the examination the more one realizes how subtle and complex the overall structure is. The Bible series by Jordan Peterson does a nice job of highlighting this complexity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w

Here is a question for you to ponder:

In a world shaped and and ultimately defined at all levels by consciousness when does a Truth that cannot now or ever be falsified become your reality?

Faith is essentially the only way to the truth. Will the plane crash or not? We have faith one way or the other. But whatever our faith is, it leads to the truth. Why? Because the plane crashes or it doesn't. And we see the truth, even if it is only for a moment before we die in the crash.

Is faith a good pathway? Look at the things that Coincube has been saying. Coincube has been saying that people are not good, or at least, probably not goodRe-read the rest of it and consider. Who or what is it that has faith? It's people who have faith. So, why would faith be good since it exists in not-good people? Yet because of our weakness in being able to know the future or much of anything, we all live by faith one way or another.

I am not like you because my faith is based in God. And in that other thread, I have been showing you how we scientifically know that God exists, through knowledge, not based on faith/believing.

While science is not truth (the word is broadly used), it is possibly the second best way that we find truth... provided we make no mistakes in the examination of science. So, what is the best way to find truth? Revelation from God. What is the most assured way to find truth? Live out your faith. And that is what we are all doing, living out our faith, at the same time we are attempting to have faith in the truth rather than in falsehoods and lies.

As we live, our faith gradually takes us through experience where we learn the truth. If we are wise, we mostly gain good experience because we follow nature in ways that work. And according to some parts of the definition of "religion," we are living out our personal religion as we go through our life of faith. Wisdom in our religious faith life provides greater health, and ultimately salvation, if we find the best wisdom. Religion and health go hand in hand, but they both work in us by faith.