Question:
What is the real reason why Christians hate science?
anonymous
2013-05-08 14:29:59 UTC
Is it because they don't like being told what's what by the same pencil-neck geeks they used to beat up in high school? Are they jealous because they spent their youth just watching football and tipping cows and getting drunk and doing drugs and attending racist rallies and huffing paint and hurting other people while those pencil-neck geeks became successful?

Also, don't bother telling me you don't hate science, Christians, because that is the definition of a Christian, and I won't listen to you.
25 answers:
OMG! It's Christy!
2013-05-08 14:32:45 UTC
All those reasons, and ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They're content with their heads up their a$$es. So sad.
anonymous
2013-05-08 21:36:03 UTC
If they pick on "geeks" they aren't being what a real Christian should be like. I want to go to college and take science classes and I love god lots. A true Christian has God in their heart which would make them not want to be mean or deceitful. I'm sorry you've been around the type of Christian who does that type of stuff, but I promise, we are not all te same! :)
anonymous
2013-05-09 13:53:37 UTC
@CELESTE: Spoken like somebody who hasn't done an ounce of research.



Take Piltdown man for example. While the British scientists were gung-ho about it, French and American scientists were skeptical of it. Were you aware of that? Even conservapedia admits it, so one can't really cry that I'm just being biased and pulling facts out of nowhere.



One should also note that the American Museum of Natural History openly displayed Piltdown Man as a mixture of ape/man fossils.



Not to mention it was science that later confirmed it was a wrong, which is what science does. It's self-correcting.



Nobody took Nebraska man seriously either; except for creationists it seems.



You'd be amazed at what actual science has to say about these sorts of things when it's not filtered through the narrow, scope of young-earth creationist nonsense.
Variable 46
2013-05-08 21:37:13 UTC
Yikes, I think you have some issues. I know a LOT of Christians who are scientists, have no problems with the Big Bang or evolution, and accept the Bible as allegory and not the literal truth. You need to expand your horizons if you have not yet encountered people of this nature...or perhaps you have and are just denying it ("I won't listen to you.") A religious denomination known for intolerance when it comes to things like birth control and homosexuality has publicly proclaimed its support for evolution...that being the Catholic Church.



As for those that DO reject "science," I think a lot of them have fairly weak faiths and fear that science will undermine that faith even more.
anonymous
2013-05-08 21:38:09 UTC
Why are you assuming we hate science? I don't know any Christian that hates science. I took 2 biology courses and a geology course myself. We are only opposed to any teaching that leads people away from God and the Bible. To be so fanatic about science that you go around evangelizing evolution in order to stop people from believing in God, is utterly ridiculous and many in here seem to be doing that.
The Goat Nose
2013-05-08 21:36:02 UTC
Some Christians in the US hate science.

The rest of us have a mind bigger than a pea and understand that God uses mathematics as a language to create the world.

It’s old, it’s boring and lets move on.
anonymous
2013-05-08 21:32:25 UTC
"don't bother telling me you don't hate science, Christians, because that is the definition of a Christian, and I won't listen to you."



Then no offense, but you're an idiot. That is not the definition of a Christian.

Science is awesome. And is no adversary of God.
jannsody
2013-05-12 05:19:22 UTC
Seriously, on the note of "huffing" (fumes or chemical vapors), my friend has a severe BRAIN INJURY from inhalant use at the age of 12, now in her 30s.



Please talk to your kids (and adult children) about the dangers of inhalant use.



For more general info re: the dangers of huffing: http://www.inhalants.org



Hoping that your kids (or younger siblings, cousins) make good, *healthy* choices in life.
?
2013-05-08 22:24:56 UTC
You asking why Christians hate science but not asking Christians themselves. This is foolish. Your asking why Christians hate science even though we word ship the creator who gave it to us. You definition of a Christian is misguided and naive. The definition to Christian is not " pencil-neck geeks they used to beat up in high school? Are they jealous because they spent their youth just watching football and tipping cows and getting drunk and doing drugs and attending racist rallies and huffing paint and hurting other people while those pencil-neck geeks became successful?"



The definition of Christian properly describes a person who believes that a man named Jesus Christ the only Son of God himself (Christ-ian) was given to us and died on the cross for us in order that God would see us as if we never sinned and to have eternal life in Heaven which can only be given through the believe in Christ himself because he was the only man of flesh to have never sinned his whole life and thus the only man qualified to die for sin.



Christians comes from all walks of life not just rednecks as you so ignorantly described. I am a vet assistant living in Hawaii surfing and eating laulau watching the sun set. My sister in law is a hair stylist working to support herself and he child. My father is a military man fighting overseas and my best friends father is a recovering alcoholic and my neighbor down the street just got out of jail for domestic violence and we are all Christians because we acknowledge our sins and believe in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to set us free.



As in regards to science you are implying that the very creator we worship in all his greatness, who gave us science and technology and the ability to use and invent it we hate. Hate alone goes against Christian morality, we pray continually to be free of such negative emotions. That the devil himself does not use his devices of anger, resentment, jealousy, envy and bitterness to control our lives.



I use my car, my microwave, my table, my bed side lamp to read my bible. Come on.... me hate science. No I love science, I love astronomy because it proclaims, "There's a God, There's a God!" Do not judge before you understand the true meaning of being a Christian and before you assume we are idiotic ignorance and foolish people ask yourself this.



If you take a watch apart and put it in a box. How many times do you think you have to shake it before it manages to build itself. If you don't think it can then don't you agree that you have to reach in and build it. Well the universe is the same way. Who do you think created it.
*** The Earth has Hadenough***
2013-05-10 00:42:12 UTC
LOL--you do know there are many Scientists who are believers don't you? If not- you really should do some studying on the subject before you sprout off such nonsense..
Dacey
2013-05-09 00:42:52 UTC
Because Science proves that pretty much everything they believe in is false.
ROMVLVS F.-United Year of Faith
2013-05-08 21:37:15 UTC
I have a 99% in Chemistry right now.

Your argument has been made invalid. Have a :) day!



His Holiness, Pope Francis, has a Masters degree in Chemistry.

Your argument is invalid. Have a :) day!
?
2013-05-08 21:34:05 UTC
A Christian developed the scientific method knucklhead. His name was Father Roger Bacon. Do a google search...............if you dare. But I doubt your little puny brain knows how
Averell A
2013-05-08 21:40:27 UTC
We don't deny or hate science; what we deny is scientism. There are a lot of scientists who are devoted Christians.
Ray H
2013-05-08 21:32:35 UTC
I like science. I just don't follow the scientific communities theory of evolution.
?
2013-05-08 21:32:03 UTC
"don't bother telling me you don't hate science, Christians, because that is the definition of a Christian, and I won't listen to you."



Actual definition of Christian: "one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ"

The existence or non-existence of God is outside the normal scope of science. *shocked*
anonymous
2013-05-08 21:32:24 UTC
its because it debunks their beliefs. Btw im an atheist and I play football and get drunk and do drugs
za
2013-05-08 21:32:04 UTC
I LOVE science, and make my living by it! Great subject for a Christian.
?
2013-05-09 13:13:34 UTC
What makes you think that suddenly science has no flaws and that no bias has entered into certain theories and hypotheses? Much science being taught today is mostly opinions based on non-empirical evidence, such as the Primordial Soup story. It's neither based on evidence as even after decades the most brilliant scientists in the world cannot produce abiogenesis in the lab - even after millions of dollars and the most sophisticated state-of-the-art lab! Yet, you just believe it by faith?? Look at some of the past teachings which were considered "facts" at the time they were taught:



Piltdown man - walking ape man intermediate which was discovered to be a hoax after 40 years

Nebraska man - an entire ape man intermediate constructed from ONE pig's tooth

Lucy - a recent human intermediate but even the prominent scientist Richard Leakey said: ." Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was “imagination made of plaster of Paris”. It's since been dismissed as the human ancestor they hoped to have found.



Here is what Darwin said, according to his scientific research about women:

" Further, some of the traits of women "are characteristic of the lower races, and anti therefore of a past and lower state of civilization". In summary, Darwin concludes that men attain,

. . . a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can women—whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands. If two lists were made of the most eminent men and women in poetry, painting, sculpture, music (inclusive of both composition and performance), history, science, and philosophy, with half-a-dozen names under each subject, the two lists would not bear comparison. We may also infer, from the law of the deviation from averages, so well illustrated by Mr. Galton, in his work on "Hereditary Genius" that . . . the average of mental power in man must be above that of women (Darwin, 1896).



Here is what another prominent contemporary of Darwin said in the name of Science:

Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931). This scientist, whose classic study of crowd behavior (The Crowd; 1895) is familiar to every social science student, wrote that even in:



." . . the most intelligent races . . . are a large number of women whose brains are closer in size to those of gorillas than to the most developed male brains. This inferiority is so obvious that no one can contest it for a moment; only its degree is worth discussion. . . . Women . . . represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and . . . are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. They excel in fickleness, inconsistency, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason. Without a doubt there exist some distinguished women, very superior to the average man but they are as exceptional as the birth of any monstrosity, as, for example, of a gorilla with two heads; consequently, we may neglect them entirely".



Do you really think that Science is not making mistakes today?? Today's mistakes will be laughable tomorrow. But when these conclusions are proclaimed as "scientific fact" then it becomes outrageous to those affected. Of course Christians are not anti-science -- most great discoveries were made by Christians and Jewish scientists. But we are just a bit less gullible when scientific bias is presented as fact.



@she-devil: I have done much more research than you have. You have exclusively looked to only the pro-evolution/abiogensis . But I went further and looked at BOTH sides of the issue. When the main evidence is historical, both sides should be evaluated and neither suppressed and/or dismissed. But are you even capable of considering another point of view? What Intelligent Design books have you read? Where is the empirical evidence for abiogenesis and macro evolution?



@shedevil: "Nobody" took Nebraska Man seriously? Why was it printed in many major newspapers including the New York Times and the London Times? Why are there many many artists' renderings of the ape man?? This was a GROSS and INEXCUSABLE error made in the name of Science! This ape-man was proclaimed by the eminent evolutionist Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborne (Then head of the department of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History), to belong to the first anthropoid (man-like) ape of America! And Piltdown Man was accepted for 40 years!
anonymous
2013-05-08 21:35:41 UTC
You are wrong. The majority of the scientific branches were founded by bible believing Christians. Actually the definition of a Christian is

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?
2013-05-08 21:32:19 UTC
The truth is uglier than a lie
?
2013-05-08 21:35:25 UTC
Because science proves that their beliefs are incorrect, so they call science a sin.
Uncle Thesis
2013-05-08 21:31:44 UTC
Tammy Tam, you must be one of those pencil-neck geeks and this is your revenge.

Hope you enjoyed it.
Joshua
2013-05-08 21:31:07 UTC
Science is sin. Only through worshiping the Lard Jesus Christ will you be delivered from your sins. I will now quote an irrelevant Bible passage to support my false statement, as if it has any authority or meaning at all.



1 Timothy 1:15-16



This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.



Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Phillip
2013-05-08 21:31:47 UTC
You are employing a loaded question, and hardening your head.


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