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Faith and Science [View all]
We hear the argument that science is not faith-based like religion - because there is no provable, verifiable fact underlying most religion.
Dr. Ejaz Naqvi makes some interesting observations about this:
Scientific Fact: Most of the scientific (and non-scientific) community believes that light travels at 186,000 miles/second.
However the fact is that most of us (if not all of us) have no idea how fast that is.
That it's really incomprehensible for most people.
Most people (I would say over 99% of us) have not independently verified it themselves.
But they have faith in the scientists, so they believe this to be true.
I am in that category.
However the fact is that most of us (if not all of us) have no idea how fast that is.
That it's really incomprehensible for most people.
Most people (I would say over 99% of us) have not independently verified it themselves.
But they have faith in the scientists, so they believe this to be true.
I am in that category.
Scientific Fact: Our galaxy-the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light years and that the Sun lies about 30,000 light-years from the center. (A light-year is the distance traveled by light in one year and is roughly 5,880,000,000,000 miles or nearly 6 trillion miles).
To be frank, most of us (if not all of us) have no idea how big that really is.
That it's really incomprehensible for most people.
Most people (I would say over 99% of us) have not independently verified it themselves.
But they have faith in the scientists, so they believe this to be true.
I am in that category.
To be frank, most of us (if not all of us) have no idea how big that really is.
That it's really incomprehensible for most people.
Most people (I would say over 99% of us) have not independently verified it themselves.
But they have faith in the scientists, so they believe this to be true.
I am in that category.
Are the messengers of God (e.g. Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad) and the Scriptures (The Bible and the Qur’an) like those scientists who asked the others to believe in the unseen?
Believing in the unseen God is incomprehensible (to some at least).
Most have not independently verified it.
But they still have faith.
But they have faith in the messengers/scriptures, so they believe this to be true.
Believing in the unseen God is incomprehensible (to some at least).
Most have not independently verified it.
But they still have faith.
But they have faith in the messengers/scriptures, so they believe this to be true.
If so many of us express such an unblinking faith in science, why would it be such a leap to express that faith in one's religion? Isn't faith in either coming from the same source?
We believe in things we cannot even comprehend because people we trust tell us it is true. That is faith.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/askamuslim/2018/02/believing-science-not-based-faith-science/
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