What scientific discovery has strengthened your beliefs the most?

Question

What scientific discovery has strengthened your beliefs the most?

Answer 1

MIR Space-station

Answer 2

I like all the discoveries. I'm a Christian enthusiastic about science as well as my faith. I know, atheists will argue that science has proven the Bible wrong, but whose to say God wasn't saving scientific knowledge for discovery to make our lives more interesting for us? It could be possible. If we were to know everything right away, life would be pretty much dull. Plus, the human mind can only absorb so much knowledge. I think one discovery that strengthened my beliefs is that a spear stab would damage many of the inner parts. Jesus' body was stabbed by a Roman soldier's spear. It was sure proof that Jesus was dead on the cross. dead bodies don't escape from tombs.



I hope this helps.

Answer 3

That relies upon on the style of 'conception' you have. in case you think of that there is the style of god who created the capacity, or that god is that capacity, and set each and every thing in action and helps it to proceed below the concepts set up by potential of that god, what we'd call physics or the organic rules, then i could think of that extra clinical discoveries ought to augment your conception in that god. If on the different hand you are the style of individual who has to brush aside each and every new discovery in view which you are able to no longer yet make certain the place the bible predicts it, then you definately should have your mythology challenged at each and every step. lots of those human beings won't have faith something till they might make certain the thank you to curve the words of an eons previous e book so they might say, 'look, the bible is a technological know-how e book because of the fact it stated it first'.

Answer 4

The bombardier beetle



The bombardier beetle has a powerful and complex system for protecting himself from enemies. Glands within the beetle produce a mixture of two hydroquinone compounds and hydrogen peroxide. These chemicals must be held in separate chambers, because when they come into contact with each other they react. When the beetle is threatened, the chemicals are mixed in a third chamber where a third chemical is added and an explosive reaction takes place. This reaction forces the caustic solution out through a special "nozzle." The beetle is skilled in aiming this nozzle at its enemy.



If this system is missing any of its parts, it is more than worthless to the beetle; the chemicals alone are very dangerous. So this sophisticated defense system could not have evolved in stages. Imagine the poor beetle who evolved the ability to produce the chemicals but hadn't yet evolved the right chambers to mix them without blowing itself up. The first time he became alarmed, poof!-no more beetle at all!



The bombardier beetle is such a problem for evolutionists that many of them have challenged claims that an explosion takes place. The fact is, the beetle can give you a nasty burn. Even the popular magazine Science Digest explained the bombardier beetle's defense with the words "explosive reaction."



Clearly the bombardier beetle is excellent evidence that creatures were originally created in finished form by a wise Creator, without the need for stages of improvement.

Answer 5

To put it simply...



Two people can look at the exact same thing and see it differently.



Therefore, belief plays into everything we see and do whether it be conscious or unconscious.



So, we cannot help but be strengthened in our belief systems based on "how" we see things.



Thus, there is no one or what scientific discovery that has strengthened my beliefs, because I don't know what beliefs you are talking about.



However, science does enhance my life and my perspective on communicating with others.



For example, the person below me quotes a creationist perspective of the Bombardier Beetle, but he is incorrect...



Why? here are all the sitings and scientific papers proving it was an evolutionary step by step process...



a step-by-step evolution of the bombardier system is really not that hard to envision. The scenario below shows a possible step-by-step evolution of the bombardier beetle mechanism from a primitive arthropod.



1. Quinones are produced by epidermal cells for tanning the cuticle. This exists commonly in arthropods. [Dettner, 1987]



2. Some of the quinones don't get used up, but sit on the epidermis, making the arthropod distasteful. (Quinones are used as defensive secretions in a variety of modern arthropods, from beetles to millipedes. [Eisner, 1970])



3. Small invaginations develop in the epidermis between sclerites (plates of cuticle). By wiggling, the insect can squeeze more quinones onto its surface when they're needed.



4. The invaginations deepen. Muscles are moved around slightly, allowing them to help expel the quinones from some of them. (Many ants have glands similar to this near the end of their abdomen. [Holldobler & Wilson, 1990, pp. 233-237])



5. A couple invaginations (now reservoirs) become so deep that the others are inconsequential by comparison. Those gradually revert to the original epidermis.



6. In various insects, different defensive chemicals besides quinones appear. (See Eisner, 1970, for a review.) This helps those insects defend against predators which have evolved resistance to quinones. One of the new defensive chemicals is hydroquinone.



7. Cells that secrete the hydroquinones develop in multiple layers over part of the reservoir, allowing more hydroquinones to be produced. Channels between cells allow hydroquinones from all layers to reach the reservior.



8. The channels become a duct, specialized for transporting the chemicals. The secretory cells withdraw from the reservoir surface, ultimately becoming a separate organ.



This stage -- secretory glands connected by ducts to reservoirs -- exists in many beetles. The particular configuration of glands and reservoirs that bombardier beetles have is common to the other beetles in their suborder. [Forsyth, 1970]



9. Muscles adapt which close off the reservior, thus preventing the chemicals from leaking out when they're not needed.



10. Hydrogen peroxide, which is a common by-product of cellular metabolism, becomes mixed with the hydroquinones. The two react slowly, so a mixture of quinones and hydroquinones get used for defense.



11. Cells secreting a small amount of catalases and peroxidases appear along the output passage of the reservoir, outside the valve which closes it off from the outside. These ensure that more quinones appear in the defensive secretions. Catalases exist in almost all cells, and peroxidases are also common in plants, animals, and bacteria, so those chemicals needn't be developed from scratch but merely concentrated in one location.



12. More catalases and peroxidases are produced, so the discharge is warmer and is expelled faster by the oxygen generated by the reaction. The beetle Metrius contractus provides an example of a bombardier beetle which produces a foamy discharge, not jets, from its reaction chambers. The bubbling of the foam produces a fine mist. [Eisner et al., 2000]



13. The walls of that part of the output passage become firmer, allowing them to better withstand the heat and pressure generated by the reaction.



14. Still more catalases and peroxidases are produced, and the walls toughen and shape into a reaction chamber. Gradually they become the mechanism of today's bombardier beetles.



15. The tip of the beetle's abdomen becomes somewhat elongated and more flexible, allowing the beetle to aim its discharge in various directions.



Conclusion...



Beliefs are based on level of education. The more educated, the less likely you are to believe in the supernatural.



Thus, two people can look at the same thing... The Bombardier Beetle, and if something stands out for them, that supports their belief, they will make it fit.



The more educated person is more likely right in the end, thus school and proper education rules out in the end to understand how and why things work rather than simply stating that god did it and ignoring all scientific evidence to support the claim of god did it.

Answer 6

Gravity

Answer 7

In one of the chapters in the Quran, explains in great detail about the fetus developing in the mothers womb, the stages of its growth and how it looks like a leech like cloth (sperm), when back then they had no technology to know these things and the quran has never been changed. We had these things written down before they were discovered in the 20th century. Im a born muslim but the more i read from the quran the more im fascinated and i love it

Answer 8

Science does not strengthen my beliefs. Science has a habit of completely shredding my beliefs. Okay by me, keeps things interesting.

Answer 9

I'll just give you a small sampling.



For instance, a bird called the Blackpoll Warbler has been tracked flying from Alaska to New England and then out over the Atlantic, catching the Jet Stream back to South America, then flying back all the way to Alaska every year.



If somebody asked US to construct a flying machine that can fly from Alaska to New England to South America and back unaided, could we? But suppose they also asked us to make it weigh less than one ounce, like the bird. Could we? And nothing may touch it to build it--it must build itself, because that is what the Blackpoll Warbler does in its egg, doesn't it? Feathers, dual TV cameras, flight computer and all. From a speck in an egg. Would we even try? Could the US government? The entire University system, with an impressive array of bright students, knowledgeable professors and able administrators? All those advanced human brains combined, connected together by the Internet? No? So how much sense does it make to say that blind, unthinking Chance just "accidentally" did so through blind, unthinking evolution?



My young school friend pointed out that since we have about 100 trillion cells in our body and each has about 5 feet of DNA, that makes about 100 trillion times 5 feet, or 100 billion times 5000 feet (about a mile), or 100 billion miles of perfect code that is required to make us a body that works. Since the characters (the "letters") that that code is "printed" in are actually the size of molecules, that makes a lot of "typing" to give us a body. Could we type that much without making a mistake, since any mistake would cause a genetic weakness or birth defect? Could blind chance?



Another thing. Ever tried to swat a fly? Not necessarily easy, right? Know why? It has to do with the fly's navigational system. It has a single vibrating rod in its abdomen, and as it changes direction in flight, it senses the changes in the vibrations of that rod and is able to dodge you, fly and land upside down and backwards. What would the Air Force pay to have flying and navigational systems that good?



How did the fly manage to evolve such a system? Even if it evolved a flopping rod, what good would it be without the muscles to vibrate it? And the unusual vibrating motion? And the nerves to send the signals from the rod to the brain? And the section of the brain to interpret the signals? And the correct instructions to interpret them? And the correct instructions to the part of the brain that controlled the wings as to what to DO about those signals? All AT THE SAME TIME. ALL USELESS UNTIL COMPLETE, giving natural selection no advantage to select during all the early developmental stages. Wouldn't that be a remarkable coincidence? I ask people, "Could YOU sit down, right now, and write the code for such a set of instructions? And if your ten billion well trained and coordinated neurons put together can't do it with an education and a computer, is it really sensible to think that flies did it by themselves?"



The fly has a complete navigational system that is self-constructing (in its egg), self-reproducing, self-programming, self-correcting, that can fly upside down and backwards, avoiding dangers and locating and recognizing fuel (food), that requires even MORE entire, completely developed systems that even large groups of highly educated humans cannot or are only now beginning to be able to copy (and only by intelligent design), all microminiaturized into a space smaller than the head of a pin, with the code for it in characters that are the size of molecules (I wonder how many characters per inch that works out to? Pretty hi-tech data storage).



So I ask people, "In your experience, how many complete flying and navigational systems do you know of that have happened completely by accident, with no intelligent thought or design?" "Did you ever read the story of all the thought and work needed to design and build a flying machine, as told by the Wright brothers themselves? So how scientific is it to say that it just happened by blind accidents in the case of the lowly, incredibly complex fly?"



All of the animal and plant world is full of examples like these. Your body is, too. Johns Hopkins University made the newspapers by making one enzyme. It must have been pretty hard to do. It was no accident. But your liver manufactures over nine hundred enzymes, all necessary for you to live, and no one thinks about putting THAT in the paper, or giving credit for that accomplishment to the One who deserves it. "Could have happened completely by accident" (which is what evolution equates to, isn't it?) But if 900+ enzymes could happen so easily, simply by accidents of evolution, then why put the university in the news because it was able to produce ONE?



This isn't defending the things that have been done and taught, supposedly in God's name...

Answer 10

The laws of Thermodynamics. Especially the first.

Answer 11

The fact that in the Qur'an, Allah states many things that were *so-called* discovered centuries later after the Qur'an was revealed....

Answer 12

Science doesn't really strengthen beliefs. It usually disproves them again and again and again...

Answer 13

Belief that religion is the longest running joke ever?



Plenty id say.

Answer 14

We shouldn't believe in anything we can't see so gravity doesn't exist

Answer 15

teh law of atraksin



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Answer 16

Science meanns nothin.

God means everything.

Answer 17

none of them. Spiritual things are beyond physical.



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