But with time, asking questions, probing deeper into the inner workings of the world that surrounded him, Man began to learn, understand that the world around him was not rooted in supernatural power but that of principles of natural phenomena unraveled, as such the power, the belief in a supernatural deity, a God,diminished over time and continues to do so, by those who ask questions, seek out the truth, answer questions that religion, the belief in a God simply finds itself much too inadequate to resolve.
Dunno about that. I wandered through agnosticism and atheism and it was thinking that finally led me to God. Science offered no answers that weren’t based on a high degree of faith, along with contradictory and constantly changing theories.
I’m sure Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler would disagree.
And thusly the advocates of scientism have gone on to this day.
However they have only managed to shrivel and depersonalize the world with their presuppositions.
Rigorous, logical thinking does not play favorites when given the premises of theism. It works equally well with them as it does with the premises of atheism. Logic can’t furnish any premises any more than science can prove there isn’t a God. All the pretense of science to where theology had once been has done, is to cheapen the realm of knowledge, and reduce the view of man to that of some kind of automaton.
St. Thomas Aquinas would be so pleased.
If this is true, then how come pretty much every atheist I’ve ever met was atheist of the “my kitty died when I was 5 years old, therefore God doesn’t exist” mold?
My husband accuses me of being over analytical. Now I can tell him that just can't be true because I'm Catholic!
Good. Would someone please tell the Eastern orthodox Church this. I’m in the process of joining and most days the studying has my brain on life support.
Looks like another phishing "study"
Ridiculous!
As a Marine (which requires thinking), and a member of MENSA (which means I think quite a bit), I have never wavered in my Faith in God.
If, as they think they have answered, which came first, The Chicken or the Egg, the Chicken didn’t just crawl out of the protoplasm...it was, as I was, created.
It's just that religious people do in fact discourage thinking, probing too deeply for fear of seeming intellectually inadequate. To scoff at questions of where the Universe came from, how does something emerge out of nothing, is easily applied to God. Where did God come from? How did God emerge out of nothingness?? Would love to hear some answers that don't border on the inane.
God’s invisible nature is made plain through what has been made, so “unbelievers” are without excuse. The fact is, for all their hauteur, they suppress the truth. The entire universe was made through Jesus, so every “discovery” points to Him. It is a refusal to honor Him, not an innocent mistake.
So violent gang members, drunk frat boys, and drug addicted prostitutes are examples of the enlighten state of having no religion?
G_d loves you, otherwise he wouldn't have created you.
Only if you don't know what you believe and why you believe it.
My husband, my kids, and I are VERY analytical thinking people and we ALL have strong faith.
Believing in God does not equate to kissing your brains goodbye.
Hootowl, you're right. Science depends way more on faith than most scientific types care to admit. The reason they don't acknowledge it is that for the most part, science is being used as an alternative to God for those who have issues over God that are NOT related to science or intellect. People turn to science for justification to reject Him.
First, students were randomly assigned to look at images of Auguste Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker," or of the ancient Greek statue of a discus thrower, "Discobolus." Those who viewed "The Thinker" were prompted to think more analytically and expressed less belief in God — they scored an average of 41.42 on a 100-point scale, compared with an average of 61.55 for the group that viewed the discus thrower, according to the study.
Clearly sports make you religious. Or something. Anyone who takes this sort of thing seriously instead of giving it the belly-laugh it deserves is only hurting himself.
I believe this is just rationalization.
There are plenty of great scientific, musical and historical minds and they all had no trouble in believing in God. In fact if anything what the created/discovered in their respective fields just strengthened their belief in a rational, orderly Creator God.
People today rationalize everything in order to do whatever they want. Rationalization is the 2nd greatest human drive.
Hmmm, yes of course you are correct. Matter and energy began from nothing...not to mention life. Wonder why evolution, or is it “mother nature” who is your god...made two sexes, pretty inefficient isn’t it?
Not only does man figure out that there is a higher power in every civilization, but God actually makes himself known to us very clearly, but we do have to open our eyes and contemplate (that is think...for you atheists) about things a bit. Did you know that the concept of fairness is inside all of us? Where does that come from? Hmmm, where does thought itself originate that gives us the ability to put a string of letters together to create words and then a string of those words together to create a coherent sentence???
Oh well, I am tired of “thinking” time to go pray for the lost souls whom do not believe in God...they truly are sad and pitiful folks.
actually the reverse is true. a more ridiculous assertion, completely ignorant of the history of science, could hardly be imagined.
the greatest scientists and thinkers ever born, people like boyle, faraday, newton, einstein, and i could go on and on described their work as attempts to discover the mind of God.