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Asked by Ruthstar123 to Hussain, Aimee on 15 Nov 2015.
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Aimee Goodall answered on 15 Nov 2015:
Thousand of years ago there was little known about science, so people thought rain was a gift and the stars where sent to look over us, people came up with religion.
As we grew to know more about science we found out why the world was like it was.
I believe there is a God out there, but that doesn’t mean I don’t trust in science, as it has proof of existence.
There are questions in science which aren’t answered, like what caused the “Big Bang,” some believe there is a scientific answer we are yet to find and others think that a God started it all.
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Hussain Jaffery answered on 15 Nov 2015:
That’s right. In the past, as humans evolved into more thinking and questioning animals, there need to explain how things worked or cam into being was required.
Religion, which is a set of given beliefs, sought to explain the why and how of the deeper questions of life. Most of the world’s religions have what is called the ‘creation myth’, which is a story of how everything started and came to be as we see it. Though theses are different between different religions, the need to explain the workings of the natural world is one of the main purposes religion. Religion remained the way humans explained the universe for tens of thousands of years.
As human societies became more stable and organised, we saw the rise of philosophy and its theories as a way of explaining the world, as opposed to religion alone.
Science as we know it today, started to emerge in societies where some form of experimentation was valued. One of the greatest examples of popularity of experiment-based knowledge is the period called the ‘Enlightenment’ in Europe. Experiment-based science began to explain how things worked, which previously only religions had explanations for, and thus science came to replace religious explanations for the way things worked in the natural world.
Religion continues to explain what we don’t know yet, while science has rigorously testable ways of explains most things. As science has come to explain more and more things (like the fact that faries don’t exist), the realm of religion in explaining our world has been shrunk. Even the Catholic pope accepts that the Sun is in the centre of our solar system and that evolution is how humans came to be on Earth – two highly controversial issues in the past for the Church.
Science continues to explain more and more things, and could one day explain what came before the Big Bang, and get closer to explaining what we call ‘God’. Science does not tend to claim to know anything there isn’t evidence/proof of. Religion fills in the gaps where science cannot yet explain the workings of the universe.
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