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SCIENCE GOD
Debate Score:152
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GOD vs SCIENCE

Whom do you think has created the world.........


SCIENCE

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GOD

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Science is a human concept, and it didn't create the world. However, I believe in a scientific explanation of the origin of the world.

89 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- deepishm(215) Disputed
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hence will you say universe,galaxies,sun,day and night evolution are just a false because it is a human concept

86 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- xaeon(997) Disputed
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That's not even remotely close to what he said.

Science is a generalised concept to encapsulate many individual entities. He's right in saying that "science" itself didn't create the earth; it was a process that occured which we encapsulate within the concept of science. The big bang occured, which led to the eventual creation of the universe. The big bang is a scientific theory. So, one of the scientific theories led to the earth's creation, not science itself.

85 days ago
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Well, neither created the world. The world happened on it's own through the natural evolution of the Universe.

I mean, we made science, so obviously science has not made anything before we existed.

And whether or not there is a god, we already know how the world came into being right up to something like a millionth of a second after the big bang, and it wasn't a magic creator waving a wand.

89 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- deepishm(215) Disputed
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science exist even before man's evolution hence big bang itself is science

87 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- iamdavidh(1849) Disputed
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As you can see, science requires some sentient being. The Universe is not "aware" in any way, and as far as we know, the conditions under which the big bang occured would have been impossible for any sentient being to have existed in, much less to have facilitated.

Therefore, while our understanding of the big bang is a result of science, the big bang itself has 0 to do with science.

86 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- JakeJ(2566) Disputed
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I believe in God. Does that mean I think that the world was created by "a magic creator waving a wand"!?

[see comment on other side]

87 days ago | Tagged As: Both
- iamdavidh(1849) Disputed
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No, it just means you don't believe your religion when it says god created us.

86 days ago | Tagged As: Science
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i think its science which has created the world............

science has created all the comforts for us and there is evidence that it is the creator and still if we say god is the creator then it is foolishness as it is just an imaginary figure......

89 days ago | Tagged As: Science
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In any debate it is important to assert the facts. Facts are the basic support structure of any argument, and anybody with common sense would agree. So let's examine the facts;

*The defintion of FACT; an idea that is true becuase of circumstantial evidence to support it.

This is something that many "mythologists" fail to understand. There IS evidence that Jesus was real. But, evidence that he was God/Part Of God amounts to nothing more than folklore and stories. Christians take their faith on the bible. Definition of FAITH; to believe in something without circumstantial evidence to support it. Here is another fact; The bible was not only written decades after Jesus, but was edited and re-written numerously. Books were added and removed, translated and re-translated since it was written almost 2,000 years ago.

Christianity's main argument for the existence of God is the bible. So theoretically, if a single part of the bible is proved untrue then the thread of Judea religion is torn apart right? The bible was written (and re-written) so that there is no way to prove it wrong. Kinda like a horiscope right? Science is absolute fact. It is based on the PROVEN laws of nature. It is based on humanity's need to know the truth of the world around us. Christians believe that becuase we can't explain the creation of the universe, God must have done it. Most people can't possibly fathom the imensity of the unviverse so to assume that there is a creator who conjured up the whole of it is preposterous. FACT; Creation of the Universe (The Big Bang)

is only a theory, and not accepted as a proven law. So to use something that is still as of yet, unexplainable, to "prove" the existence of God is actually more damaging to your argument than anything.

Now it is time for opinions:

People are afraid of the unknown. Since the beginning of mankind people have had gods and folklore to explain the unknown. As science developed, gods became obsolete and purely fantasy. The modern Christian is just a product of an earlier ancester. People cannot accept the fact that death may possibly be permanent and final. They cannot accept that life is just a random universal evolution. People want to be comforted by the fact that there is someone there to guide and nurture them. The real miracle is life itself and your time in consious existance should be considered the most valuable gift of all. Life is precisiuos, enjoy it. Accept that we are infitesminally small and only amount to anything as a whole. Life is a wonderful beautiful thing that should be chersish accordingly.

Please note: I am not trying to shove my beliefs down anyone's throat. This is just my argument as an intelligent person. I think Christians have a wonderful moral basis (for the most part) and that everyone has the right to live and believe in what you will.

87 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- asdf789(341) Disputed
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I will ask you this: how big is the universe? Isn't it infinite, according to most scientists? Tell me, have you ever measured how big it is? Then how do you know it is infinite? You believe that the universe is infinite without actually knowing how big it actually is. Sounds to me like science is based on faith as well. :)

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to believe in something without circumstantial evidence to support it.

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You can never be completely sure that any scientific theory is true anyways. Just because there is no evidence to contradict one does not mean that there may be evidence in the future to contradict it.

87 days ago | Tagged As: God
- chrislewis21(8) Disputed
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First, not once did I mention that the Universe is infinite. I did not even imply that. Einestein claims that the universe is constantly expanding, but that it has boundries. Secondly, if you are to imply that the Universe isn't imense, just becuase you haven't seen then I have a questions for you;

1.By your own logic, Why believe in a God you can't see, or hear?

87 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- iamdavidh(1849) Disputed
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Sounds to me like science is based on faith as well. :)

You would be wrong.

While if you're watching the science channel, and it's some special about the Universe, you may hear the word "infinite" thrown around,

this is because it's tv though. In a classroom or lab, no self-respecting scientist would use such a silly term.

We know that "infinite" is impossible,

a couple things scientists do believe are,

The Universe folds in on itself, so if you were going in what you thought was a straight line at the speed of light for trillions and trillions of years, you would eventually end up where you started,

by then of course everything would be different, so even at the speed of light it would appear infinite,

Others don't believe it folds in on itself, but is limited.

Currently we know it is expanding, some believe it will collapse in on itself again, others think it will just keep going on forever,

whatever the correct theory though,

none of them involve infinity, simply numbers we cannot yet imagine.

87 days ago | Tagged As: Science
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Science: monotheism is a dated kind of thinking. One cannot fully integrate something like this into their life because of the way society is setup now. During the time when Jerusalem was in full bloom, no one had technology or many forms of entertainment like we do today. Science explains that there are many concrete and logical reasons for things, which paints a clear picture of the world around them to those who prefer it. Although a modern religion is somewhat important, it is also equally important for people to realize that they cannot dominate their lives with such things. Many liberals and "new-age" people prefer to use the term agnostic to show their appreciation of God and the world around them. This kind of thinking is probably the closest we will come to full integration of Science and God today.

84 days ago | Tagged As: Science
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Science makes my cars go, and my computer run.

Science cures disease and prolongs life.

Science explains natural phenomena.

Science gives reason to the otherwise reasonless.

Science has created prosthetics for people who have lost limbs.

Science has done so much it's disturbingly awesome.

God has done... uh... well, I don't know how to answer that.

72 days ago | Tagged As: Science
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Why do people assume God uses some kind of magic? Don't you think that if there was a God, he would know more about science than we do? Just saying. ..

89 days ago | Tagged As: Both
- Bradf0rd(1299) Supported
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At least one person in this debate is seeing when they look...

We're not here to test the validity of either, independently of the other. The parameters of the debate are set. Consider what is known about God and compare it to what is known about Science.

Step one is whether or not God (if it does exist) could create a universe... Yes, because it's all powerful, all knowing, etc... and whether science could create a universe... SCIENCE IS A METHOD, NOT A THING THAT CAN CREATE!!!

So, JakeJ is finally saying something that makes sense. ;P

88 days ago | Tagged As: God
- JakeJ(2566) Supported
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Why thank you. (8

Actually I always make sense, and you are finally realizing that. ;p

Okay so maybe not. But it's more fare to say that I'm finally saying something that you agree with.

88 days ago | Tagged As: Both

I believe God created the world as we know it and that science can try to explain it from varying viewpoints if one is not a believer in God.

88 days ago | Tagged As: God
- chrislewis21(8) Disputed
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I would say that science explains the world a little better than than the bible does. Now I know that that may be a matter of opinion, but I'm sure that most rational people would agree.

86 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- deepishm(215) Disputed
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so you say you are not a believer of science.....................

86 days ago | Tagged As: Science
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Well if we're going to be anal, I believe science created the world as we know it and still governs it.

HOWEVER, I believe God sparked the Big Bang and thus created science and time! ;)

87 days ago | Tagged As: God
- andsoccer16(1264) Supported
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I wish more Christians would be as rational as you. In no way should science be thought of as hostile to religion, and those Christians who reject science in because they can't understand the idea of metaphors, are doing a disservice to the entire world by standing in the way of knowledge.

87 days ago
- JakeJ(2566) Disputed
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Because most Christians are not rational?

I have been saying almost exactly what he said for some time now, and I hear no compliments from you. Quite the opposite actually. Maybe you just don't like me. (;

87 days ago | Tagged As: Both
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Everything in this world or universe has a creator. The fact remains that scientist are humans which are not guaranteed 100%. This means that they can make errors or even make something up because of human nature. Yes, things get tested over and over, but nothing is 100%. Too many things in this world to explain so I believe there is a creator. Look at medicine, it helps people yet many makers of medication are being sued because medicine is not guaranteed 100%.

80 days ago | Tagged As: God
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Evolution Fails to Predict the Genetic Complexity

Any scientific theory, which evolution is purported to be, has to be able to predict to be a good theory. But evolution in its’ need to connect mutation in the genome to the massive change needed for evolution incorrectly predicted the direct gene to morphology connection. Only with this connection can small mutations actually have the ability to make massive morphological changes necessary for evolution to be plausible.

The Darwin concept:

One gene – One Protein – One Function

But we are learning more about the genetic package and are finding that contrary to the evolutionist’s wish’s the genetic structure has always been surprisingly resilient. I must mention again the accelerated fruit fly experiments and the extraordinary resilience of the fruit fly genome. I believe that this would be a great falsifiability test for evolution.

What evolutionist say is that evolution is a theory that can absorb all new data and take it in and make it part of the theory. When they say that they are not describing a scientific theory, but a philosophy.

We have recently discovered the incredible complexity of the genome and how it reacts and moves its’ instructions to create the morphology or the phenotype of the organism. It is not a one to one correlation, but the complexity is much beyond that.

http://www.evanwiggs.com/articles/reasons.html#Reason1

80 days ago | Tagged As: God
- Republican2(64) Disputed
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That is a valid point. But that one point does not derail the whole theory simply because we do not yet understand some of the natural processes that drove it forward. Also I must point out that in scientific terms, the word theory refers to a hypothesis that has been continually tested and proven accurate. As of now, there is an enormous amount of evidence supporting evolutionary theory. If an equal or greater amount of evidence should be presented contrary to evolutionary theory, we would strongly question it's validity or drop it altogether. Obviously that hasn't happened, and to be completely objective (as all scientists should be) we must lean on the side of greatest evidence which at the present time is for evolution. You will have to do more than point out a few inconsistencies to derail the whole theory.

22 days ago | Tagged As: Science
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Man is god, science is just a tool for studying man.

Therefor, God > Science.

89 days ago | Tagged As: God
- deepti
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i say that it is the big bang theory that created the world

89 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- Bradf0rd(1299) Disputed
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"i say that it was the big bang theory that created the world"

Who created the theory?

88 days ago | Tagged As: God
- samhillbhs(9) Disputed
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If science is a tool for man to study man, and you already said man is god, then science is studying god. Science supports evolutionary theory. Science cannot support both because they are opposing forces. Making science hypocritical. New content is discovered and created in science daily. whereas the bible hasn't been revised or edited in nearly 2000 years. making the bible obsolete and outdated. God killed roughly 1800 people in the bible compared to the devil which allegedly killed 3.

88 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- Bradf0rd(1299) Disputed
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No, Science isn't a person, or a thing that does something, science, like I've said, is nothing more than a tool. It's a function of the human mind, in other words.

The human mind supports evolution via a function. "New" content is found via a function of the mind. The Bible was also a human invention. Hence, man is god. The Bible is less outdated than the last scientific theory because the Bible isn't a theory, it's a book. People may take it as a theory, sure, but that doesn't mean it is one... does it?

88 days ago | Tagged As: God
- chrislewis21(8) Disputed
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Anthropology is the study of man. Science is the study of nature, the world around us, and the laws that govern them.

86 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- Bradf0rd(1299) Supported
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Me: "Man is god, science is just a tool for studying man."

You: "Anthropology is the study of man. Science is the study of nature, the world around us, and the laws that govern them"

Anthropology is what, an art? No, it's a science. When I say that science is a tool for studying man this includes anthropology. There is no conflict.

Science can only explain to man what is in man's capacity to know. It is man explaining the universe, not science.

85 days ago | Tagged As: God
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I think the universe exists, and if it was created out of nothing, it was God. And even if it wasn't, it still might be.

88 days ago | Tagged As: God
- deepishm(215) Disputed
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a man create life in a test tube so do you agree man is god

85 days ago | Tagged As: Science
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There could be a force undefined by science which know as god.I support this as there is know science reasoning that has been proved so far.

81 days ago | Tagged As: God
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Bent proteins have had much interest in science for a couple of decades. Many first heard of them in some rather strange diseases such as the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or the Mad Cow disease that was caused by a prion or a badly bent protein. We all wondered how could a bent protein cause morphological change in a brain?

As researchers dove deeper into this issue and looked a past research going back into the 1970s they started seeing that there appeared in cells an incredibly complex dance between the genes and protein and RNA folds to transmit data to assemble extremely complex protein machines in the cell as well as transmit data to assemble cell structures as well as create the macro morphology of an organism. This answered some questions that arose in genetic research where it appeared the genes didn’t always have a one to one correspondence with morphological structure. In fact some genes seemed to be connected to multiple structures and some genes seemed to be unconnected. As it turns out the bent proteins provide another layer of highly organized information in the cell. The appear to be bent in non-random ways based on the molecular structure and the bends are actually a function of physics and not biology. We have discovered around 200 of these protein bends and have seen how they actually provide more information to the cell than the genes themselves.

The folding process has been found to be absolutely necessary for the protein to function in the cell and occurs right out of the ribosome. The folded shape is determined by several factors.

1. Internal covalent bonds such as disulfide bridges between cysteine units in the chains.

2. Hydrogen bonds.

3. Hydrophilic and hydrophobic interaction with the surrounding solvent.

4. The interaction with other with other molecules large and small that help carry on cellular function.

In fact two different proteins can fold into similar shapes and perform the same cellular function. But this is all made possible by a process that is guided. Random folds wouldn’t work. The prions of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease prove that. There are protein complexes that provide a chaperone that help the proteins to bend in the proper way, and there are chaperones that help the protein to stay in its proper bend. These chaperones are also responsible for metal ions movement in the cell.

This is something evolutionists may claim as “part of the great universal acid” of their theory, but evolutionary theory actually prevented researchers from discovering these protein machines because of the assumptions built into evolution. Another failure and another nail in the coffin. Scientific American. Everything in this world had to be created and I believe it has a creator.

79 days ago | Tagged As: God
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It is hard to debunk that everything was created. What created the substance to create the earth? What created man? Science is a tool created by man.

79 days ago | Tagged As: God
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Just to reinforce what I am saying, everything had to be created, it did not just happen. People are not 100% accurate, they make mistakes. If people make mistakes and scientist are people, that means scientist make mistakes.

77 days ago | Tagged As: God
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Science is simply a study of how God did it. So all those theories like the big bang are simply explaining how he did it not completely throwing him out the window even if intellectuals think so. (except for evolution that's completely false)

72 days ago | Tagged As: God
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God without science is blind, Science without god is lame!

70 days ago | Tagged As: God
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God is always first, however, you cannot deny that science has been a true attribute to the life we live today. We wouldn't have computers to debate, glasses to see, and thank God for allowing man the gift of curiosity, or else we would never have discovered penicillin. Science in definition is "The study of the physical world and its manifestations, especially by using systematic observation and experiment." Now I can say along with anything the devil can be found in it as well.

24 days ago | Tagged As: God
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god has created the world .god only created us,and inturn we created science we should be thankful to him ,if we don't then it's clear that we are selfish. who knows even you can die this moment at that tin=me you pry to god please save me. so god,god,god.

89 days ago | Tagged As: God
- chrislewis21(8) Disputed
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You have no evidence to back that up. This is a debate. Your opinion is not what's important here.

86 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- deepishm(215) Disputed
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GoD is just an IMAGINARY FIGURE CREATED BY THE HUMANS..............

it is utter foolishness to say god created science and us

we should not be thankful to him ,if we don't then it's clear that we are GOOD IN IMAGINATION

82 days ago | Tagged As: Science
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God! he created us! Science is important but God is much more!

88 days ago | Tagged As: God
- deepishm(215) Disputed
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how can GOD be more important when there is no evidence of GOD........

It is just an imaginary figure created by the HUMANS

81 days ago | Tagged As: Science
- iaboswell(22) Disputed
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What do you consider evidence? Are you claiming that science is 100% accurate? Well, who created science? Are humans who are scientist perfect? Do scientist make mistakes? So is it possible that scientist can lie about what they found? Afterall, they are human.

79 days ago | Tagged As: God
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