How Can Science Disprove God?

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Reason Series Paragraphs For the first segment of the Reason Series the topic of conversation revolves around one main question “Can science disprove God?” and all the little questions that go along with it. After watching the video, the most convincing answer I took away from the segment’s essential question “Can science disprove God?” was the idea that science can never truly disprove anything. It struck me profoundly for I had never realized that although someone could go to every planet, search in every part of our Earth, and look in every nook and cranny of the universe, they would still not have enough proof to completely disprove something, or in this case, God. While I understand this new concept, more questions such as “Where can …show more content…
The Bible is another piece of evidence that proves religion and science truly can work together in peace, despite the reputation that it cannot. The most convincing answer to the question of whether the Bible conflicts with science is the idea that comparing the Bible to science is like a surgeon using a cookbook to guide him through a surgery. This is convincing to me because I believe many people fall into the idea that since the Bible and science say two different things that automatically means they contradict each other. In reality science is used to explain the natural world and religion is used to answer philosophical questions and let people get to know their creator. As you can see, those two purposes are so completely different that it does not make sense to compare the two on the same level. After watching this segment, I fully understood each point that was brought up and did not find that I had any remaining questions or evidence I wanted to further …show more content…
For the questions “Can Science disprove God?”, “Is there any evidence for a Creator in the universe?”, and “Is the Universe Random and Meaningless?” the answers and points brought up made complete sense and totally proved that faith and reason could in fact be compatible. However, on the questions “Does the Bible conflict with science?” and “Does the Bible conflict with Evolution?” the reasoning behind them did not really make sense to me, for it seemed that they answered questions that had nothing to do with the original topic instead of actually answering the essential question. Before watching this series, I could not answer the question “Does science disprove God?” because I had never been educated on that topic, but now that I am educated I can say for certain that faith and reason can be compatible, that is on certain topics. When asked to rate myself on a scale, I rated myself as a three and a half because I knew there was a God, yet I also had some doubts and was aware that there were some things I still did not fully understand. Now, after watching the segments, I would rate myself at a two. I feel a little bit stronger in my faith now because I can answer questions that I was not able to before, however as mentioned above there are still some topics that I struggle to understand, even after watching the segments. Overall, I learned a great

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