Stephen Hawking believes that study of the possibility of God’s existence is a scientific question. My question is not about the historical question about God’s existence, but about scientific evaluation of an assertion of Christians, Muslims, Jews or other religious people that their religion is revealed to man by an omnipotent, omniscience and omnipresent divine. The questions then arise are:
1. How can we examine (prove or reject) this forceful statement scientifically (not philosophically)?
2. How much historical & statistical study of the evolutionary terms like language, writing, etc do help to answer this question?
3. Which scientific methods are appropriate to reach this goal?
4. How much the systematic study of science and religion e.g. Ian Barbour (1966) , Thomas F. Torrance (1969), Russell et al. (1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2008), etc has been progressed to address this fundamental issue?
5. Does religion and science conflict, like evolutionary theory, indicate that religions are human made device?
6. What is the role of church and religion leaders' power? For example some conciliatory public statements on evolutionary theory by Pope John Paul II (1996) present updated interpretations of previous concepts.
This is a problem about the distingction between religion and study of religion. The study of religion obviously is a scientific problem.
The origin of religions do never make a great fuss about nothing. Most of them are understanding for natural appearences or a need from governors, but I sure that God of Jews and Christans indeed exists. My grounds are not suitable for publication.
Hello Rostami, very please to meet you. I recall just a little something about this world view in my Apologetic course . Scientific Naturalism is a world view that believes all objects and events are part of nature, i.e.. This view embrace the world of space and time. It believes everything including the mental realm of human beings is subject to scientific inquiry. I did not do my research in Apologetics on Scientific Naturalism, I did mine on secular humanism, therefore I do not know that much about Scientific Naturalism. We had to use variables to explain ourselves. Let take for example if this worldview (scientific naturalism) affirm that X, Y, and Z are essential element and if any of these elements contradict another essential element (say X contradicts Y), or is self-contradictory, this worldview may be true because it is not logically inconsistent. Christianity does not contradict itself. It is consistent. For the Christian there is only one ultimate reality, one alternative and that is that God exists and he is the Creator. Rostami, all religions are an imitation of what God tries to create. Mythology, Islam, Roman Catholicism, Buddhism, Bahai, and all others are an imitation of what God tried to create. I can give you some more variables, but I think I have said enough. God Bless.
Looking at the world through an agnostic existentialism window, man is inadvertently caught amidst the hardships of an absurd life. On this basis, we are born into this world of absurdity and there is no way getting out. Therefore, all humans try to blow meaning into an otherwise meaningless world and one of the ways to achieve this goal is the teachings of a religion. Within such perspectivization, religion is man's invention for making life tolerable. However, the creationist angle to life has a different story giving prominence to the essence which is the power of God.Under this outlook, God oversees and monitors our lives leading us to peace of mind and happiness.
Only for God existence of Jews and Christans. God can be called a highest life system on earth. They are invisible super intelligent life system, and their civillization is superioty to human being's civilization and surpass human beings about four thousand years.
Yaozhi Jiang
Thank you for stating your opinion. What do you mean by 'invisible super intelligent life system'?
By the way, It seems that there is a misunderstanding. The question is not about everyone's belief, but it is about investigating human-made possibility of religions in a scientific consensus manner.
Okkam's razor ( entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily ) tells us that there is not need for gods to explain universe. But some (most) people need gods to explain themselves.
"Are religions a human made device? Is it a scientific question?" - answers will be different for those who need and those who do not need gods.
Answer for Masoud Rostami
Firstly, we must distinquish the objective God and subjective God, only for God of Jews and Christians. Objective God is an objective existence, and subjective God is a subjective existence, i.e. a mapping from objective God into subjective God in human beings brain.
During my researches for Chinese history, I discovered that there are political secret-code which coded by God, only possible by God and not possible by others, this secret-code announce and schedule in advance of Chinese history within 200 years at least from the Daoguang Emperor period in Qing Dynasty till now. But this is a very sensitive problem, thus it is not suitable for publication.
God of Jews and Christians is a real existence on earth , and rules the human beings on earth via a mode not easy to sense.
See my preprint titilled: dynamics model for life evolving system on earth, in this website.
If you want to be scientific, don't confuse "God" with religion. These are not the same. The academic study of religion provides a wealth of information about religious traditions, behaviors, and beliefs from around the world. Sometimes God is part of the system, sometimes many goddesses are, and sometimes the gods really don't matter. Religion is much more complex, made up of myths, rituals, symbols, ideas, objects, and is bound up with ways of acting, meaning, and orientation (in a spatial as well as psychological sense).
So, if you want to think about religion from a scientific point of view, questions about the existence of God will not be part of the answers.
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