ANSWERS: 79
  • I'm going to say it before someone else does: Answerbag! Haha, so funny... except not.
  • They are not mutually incompatible. (And I'm an atheist, incidentally. I can still get answers, of a sort, from religion.)
  • Meditation so I can go deeper in my own mind, so I believe a bit of both.
  • Science thinks it is God, thats the problem
  • Science.
  • Science.
  • That's too easy. Answerbag.com!
  • God...he is the only true help for me. Next would be the internet.
  • Only God has all the answers.
  • Science, obviously.
  • Most certainly God. Although scientific studies are becoming mare advanced, it is very much easy to find answers about the Earth through God, instead of scientific theories.
  • Science of the Mind.
  • I try to come up with my own answers
  • Religious nevets: Science helps us understand God's world. You need both.
  • Myself. I have no tangible evidence that either one was the cause of our creation. When I need answers, I turn to myself. Because even if there is a gd, even if science is our reasons, our cause, we hold our own answers within our own mind. That's what I believe.
  • Why does it have to be one or the other. For example there is a debate between creationism - God created the world and the belief that the world evolved from a bunch of rocks smashing together. I believe in both I think good created the basis of life which then evolved and is still evolving.
  • Both. Most peopple think Science and Religion are polar opposites. I personally think they should go hand in hand.
  • Science.
  • Well actually I'm not very interested in answers. Look at all the answers we already have... what difference have they really made? What happens with answers is actually a pretty big problem: we pick our favorite answer, then we wrap ourselves around it like we're afraid of falling off a high cliff without that answer. Once we've done that, we look around and notice that other people are clinging to DIFFERENT answers, and that makes us mad -- so we start explaining that they've picked the wrong answer(s) -- but of course, they're clinging to their answer just as hard as we're clinging to ours. So we turn up the volume -- because they're not listening! The louder we try to explain their error to them, the louder they shout back. Somewhere down the line as the argument escalates, we may even turn to shooting at them -- just to protect others from their defective answers, of course. Why does this happen? Why do we cling to our answers? Or better yet, who cares why? If someone sees clearly about this, the reasons are legion: security, a sense of identity, belonging to a group that has the same answer, reducing the chaos and confusion of life, etc. Interestingly, there's another way to relate to the big questions in life... a way which doesn't involve clinging to answers, and which isn't subject to the crippling self-righteousness of "answer addiction". The way is to just stay with the question itself and keep asking -- to treat the question as a laboratory, a searchlight... a way to focus one's attention rather than something incomplete which must be resolved by "getting the answer". This works because certain questions -- the most important ones, in fact -- cannot be answered in the usual way. You can't get "the answer" as some sort of idea or concept which can be written down. For certain questions, the process of asking IS the answer. If you come away from one of these questions with a traditional answer, you've actually missed the whole point.
  • Neither. They both lie to me constantly. No matter how many times I have them over for dinner.
  • Both. I rely on science to help explain some of the mysteries of God, but I do not believe that science can ever be traced back and proven without the existence of God. I turn to science for answers, but God for guidance.
  • It doesn't have to be either or. Science is knowledge. It searches for truth. God created knowledge and IS truth.
  • I turn to truth, science is the closest to that. Then again, I'd be biased in my answer (that's truth)
  • God has never answered me, so science
  • Science. The reason is simple. God doesn't exist. You might think that he is answering you, but it's really only you that's imagining it, or really just being dishonest with yourself. Turning to God for answers is like writing Santa for gifts, forgetting that it's your friends and family who is acctually buying the stuff.
  • It really depends... If it's something that humans or us can solve, then I relay on science. But if it's something personal or something that I just cannot understand, then God would be my choice. Besides, God knows all and more than science.
  • When I'm sane or brave - Science When I'm terrified or crazy - God Didn't someone say "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" ?
  • It depends on the question.
  • I say we turn to God because if it were not for Him, we would not have Science because Science is the study of the natural world and He created the natural world. I hope that this is helpful. -In the Master's service. Thank you and God bless you!
  • Science. There is no god.
  • I turn to science as science can give a factual answer where as god just wont answer at all. If he was everywhere all at once he should be able to answer all questions all at once but i nor anyone i know has ever said they have had an answer from this so called God.
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  • God who has knowledge about everything beyond human's mind,science and religion together don't conflict it's just that religion is the way to get the most correct info. cuz God who created us with brains and thoughts has probably much more knowledge than some creatures
  • I turn to God, I like believing that there is a being higher than us, who watches over us.
  • I turn to science for some answers and God for some answers.
  • They answer different questions. Science says how we got here, God says why, ^_^.
  • When I am looking for theories, I turn to man and science. When I am looking for answers, I turn to God.
  • I turn to my heart, and my heart almosy always leads to me science, and sometimes supernatural things.
  • Both. The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact. One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good. Catholics can believe in the theory of evolution. Or not. The Church does not require belief in evolution. On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis: The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God. Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea. As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony. With love in Christ.
  • Why are there only two options? You can also search for the answer within yourself.
  • God. And going with my gut usually works too .
  • It all depends on the question. I am a pragmatic Christian who believes that there are many things that are plain common sense and can be seen by experience. Some other things the mysteries of which can be analysed and so science observes and theorises and answers vital lessons of life but for the spiritual only God can give truth. Therefore I go to my own intellect, to experts and to God for the appropiate answer to the particular question!
  • It depends on the question. A question about aerodynamics of an airplane, science. Guidance with issues regarding my life and making decisions, God.
  • Neither I usually find them on wikipedia.
  • Neither. Music, Art and Philosophy provide me with answers.
  • Neither :)
  • I agree with neko-kun. Go to science for the how and to God for the why!!!!
  • Science, but some people think you have to abandon God to understand science, when you really don't.
  • If you believe in God and that He created everything, then wouldn't you have to believe that He created Science?. And if you believe that, wouldn't you then have to believe that turning to Science is, in a sense, the same as turning to God? To me, it's kind of like the mathematical transitive property of equality: If a = b and b = c, then a = c.
  • PLEEEEEEEASE folks, can't I have both?
  • God is the causer. Science is study of cause and effect. Think of story of Abraham (pbuh) when he was thrown in fire. The fire did not burn him because God took away it's ability to burn. Fire and burning is cause and effect. God causes to burn or prevents fire from burning.
  • That would depend on the question. If the question is: "Will it work?" or "How does it work?" or "How do I we make it work?", then Science would have to be the first place to turn. If the question is: "Is it right?" or "Should I do it?" or "Why should I do that?", Science can't answer those, and has to defer to God.
  • I get answers from science, history, previous experiences, intuition, and my own biases. These may not always provide me with the best answer or the right answer, but I think that an honest search for truth, even if flawed by the preconceived notions of a single man, is superior to explanation based on a God I've never seen evidence for. If I accept dogma, I will stagnate, but if I search for truth, I will be right most of the time, and capable of learning, and adapting, when I am wrong.
  • Go within, or go without.
  • yes to both.
  • Science.
  • Both. For instance. I believe God speaks to me through the Bible, but it has never told me the chemical formula for water. Science has. Science has never told me the purpose of my life however. My belief is that God speaks to me through science and the Bible as well as in other ways. It is not a contest for me.
  • my heart, nature, and the people i love.
  • Right now its just me.
  • The internet.
  • I generally make them up myself. Look! There went another one. (I am wondering, however, whether that makes me a scientist or a god.)
  • As a Christian I say God
  • It depends on what the question is.
  • Neither. I ask my all knowing Parrot. He knows all the answers to everything there ever was.
  • I find that they can work together quite well if you imply the concept of multiple dimentions and the idea that God IS the universe and collective consiousness of all living beings. It can get really really really really complicated, so I can't go over the entire thing right here.
  • For answers from God, I turn to God....for answers from science, I turn to science.
  • Answerbag. Duh.
  • Both, each has it's place.
  • Depends on what the question is.
  • Science all the way.
  • science is the seeking of wisdom religion is the seeking of love and in the fire of wisdom burns the flame of love for all. truth-revelations.com
  • Consider what Robert Jastrow (1925-2008), the famous agnostic astronomer, has to say: "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." Source: God and the Astronomers, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1992, p.107.

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