Question: do you think that god is involved with science?

John Short answered on 14 Jun 2012:

Interesting question!

I’m an atheist, I don’t believe that God created the universe or has any impact on science, even if God did exist. Science is by which the way the universe works, the rules and laws that govern how particles interact, how things metabolise etc. In the past, things that we didn’t know about, understand or had the technology to find out was either labelled as magic, work of the devil or by God. Science over time tends to have a way of explaining the previously unexplainable, it just depends on how we are prepared to accept those findings, and our own interpretation of how the world works. The Catholic Church did not accept Galileo’s findings that the Earth orbited the sun. Some religious people thought that HIV when first found in the 1980s was a punishment by God on gay people, whereas the science points to it originating from a related virus in monkeys in Africa, probably as a result of people hunting and eating the monkeys and contracting the virus. We also know from genetic studies that HIV has been around since 1910.