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Science fails to explain humanity

Omar | 2:45 a.m. Sept. 18, 2009

All science is fleeting! Everything we know will eventually be proven to either completely wrong or at least incomplete as new things are discovered! Religion is incomplete as well. God in His wisdom has not chosen to reveal everything, yet! Probably because He requires faith. Only a fool would throw out both science and religion because eventually, they are the same thing. I think I will keep my science books and my scriptures! One does not disprove the other because both are incomplete, at least for now!

There is only one | 8:47 a.m. Sept. 18, 2009

I sometimes laugh and other times I grown when I see people tossing out religious explanations for man and life and how we came to be. To me there is no question. We are created in the image of God. He created us and gave us the means to move, to think, to reason, to act, to question. None of these are even in the remotest way attainable by all the scientific explanations. To have evolved into such complex individuals through chance is a thousand times more preposterous than to look to a loving Father in Heaven. Think about it, and the mere fact that you CAN think about it is your first proof. I love you all, but when you place other explanations above that of God you turn your back on logic and reason and truth.

SandyEggoBill | 9:33 a.m. Sept. 18, 2009

My favorite conundrum is: why/how did ALL of the millions of kinds of animals in the world, get a male and a female in the same place at pretty much the same time?
(They couldn't have continued to exist, othewise!)
Science has NO answer for this!
Only the Master of the Universe could have arranged it.

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Philosophers Are Not Scientists | 10:07 a.m. Sept. 18, 2009

Science has done a far better job of explaining the universe than religion or philosphy ever has. If it weren't for science, we would still believe that the Sun and stars rotate around the earth and that Adam and Eve existed. Science cannot explain everything yet, but it is moving in the right direction, while religion and philosophy retreat.

can matter think? | 12:17 p.m. Sept. 18, 2009

"No man can survey himself without fortwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious,that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves."John Calvin" How could consciousness have evolved from matter? The point is our rational minds come from a rational Mind-God. (Gen 2:7, Greek OT) tells us that God was the author(poieo)of our soul(psuche)and body(soma). The uncreated creator.

JS | 1:48 p.m. Sept. 18, 2009

I enjoyed this article. I knew that this century was bad - but did not realize it was the worse!
I guess the signs of the times creep up on us so slowly that we do not reconize the truth around us.

re: SandyEggoBill.. Thanks for your comment! Never thought about that. Too easy I guess. Makes a lot of sense though

re: Philosophers are not Scientists
I STILL believe in Adam and Eve! And so do most of the people that I know!!!!

too short | 5:21 p.m. Sept. 18, 2009

the article is interesting enough, but I wish it was longer, it seems incomplete

RE: Philosophers Are Not Scienti | 5:27 p.m. Sept. 18, 2009

I believe sciecne has done a very poor job trying to answer the BIG questions.

So poorly, they have

replaced science with dogma,

replaced fact with theory,

replaced truth with may haves, might haves, could haves, supposition and assumption, and possible mechanisms, invented relationships, evidence twisted and molded to forcibly fit a theory,

The more you see "scientists" debate among themselves, the more you realize how little they actually know themselves.

Anonymous | 7:18 p.m. Sept. 18, 2009

"I don't think there is one iota of evidence that suggests a lost tribe from Israel made it all the way to the New World. It is a great story, slain by ugly fact."

- Michael Crawford, anthropologist at University of Kansas, as quoted in Thomas Murphy, Mormon anthropologist, American Apocrypha, p. 53

Shame on Religion | 3:37 p.m. Sept. 19, 2009

And religion fails to explain anything that can be verified. It is nothing more than organized and reinforced superstition.

Anonymous | 4:00 p.m. Sept. 19, 2009

We need better science teaching in Utah schools. "All science is fleeting! Everything we know will eventually be proven to either completely wrong or at least incomplete as new things are discovered!" Newtonian laws still are working just fine. Copernicus hasn't been disproved yet.

RE: Anonymous | 5:48 p.m. Sept. 19, 2009

IT is well fact that the newtonian laws do break down after a point.

Copernicus ideas were only a start and doen't conflict with the idea of INCOMPLETE,

considerable more knowledge of the solar sytem and universe has been gained since his day,

I don't know much about Crawford, but NO mormon is saying a "lost tribe" came to america.

But like most who attack mormons you never offer any actual evidence, andas per usual, like crawford, twist the facts.

3 facts:

1 the jareditse who cam to america betewewen 2300 and 2100 bc, were thought to have asiatic or mongoloid DNA

1. the lamanites wer curdes with a "black" skin (2 nephi 5:21)

2. the nature of change could also have changed their DNA, perhaps given it asiatic or mongoloid markers.

3. the unchanged nephites were killed off by the lamanites, so NO evidence of thier DNA may be left.

Th fact is the NO DNA evidence that contradicts what is set down in the BOM.

Before you start casting aspersions about how well others understand science,

perhaps you should look at your understanding of science first, and see ifit actually holdsup to scrutiny.

Get a Real Education | 6:50 p.m. Sept. 19, 2009

For you people who were "edjucated" in Utah, there is a difference between scientific theory and scientific law. By definition, a theory has not been proven, but a law has. The law of gravity will not change. Theories about such subjects as the "Big Bang" and even evolution have not been proven. BUT they have evidence to back them up, UNLIKE religion.

RE: Get a Real Education | 8:19 p.m. Sept. 19, 2009

Big Bang and evolution have, at best, circumstantial evidence,

TH fact is scientist are still debating the "big bang" theory, since so much that still contradicxts it,

evolution is even worse,

it ignores completey any contrdictory evidence,

and they evidence they claim

has been twisted, re-intepreted, mokded and shaped, even invented, to otherwise forcibly make to fit a theory,

IE making square peg fit a round hole.

Yeah, great science.

Eliana | 6:05 p.m. Sept. 23, 2009

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