Analysis Of Faith In God

As our understanding of the world increases through science, faith in God becomes debatable. In the past, God was the explanation of the world and how it works. Over the centuries, human had been searching for answers and understandings. Science was born and some would say tit replaces God while other disagree.

William D. Phillips is a serious scientist who also believes in God. Many people including scientists would see this as illogical because God and Science are opposite. Phillips explains the most common mistake that he sees in their logic. People often says that scientific explanation to world that we learned over the century is the proof of not needing God. Phillips says that this is not true because faith in God is not a scientific

I agree with this because we as humans have beliefs of our own that not based on any logical or scientific evidences. We all have our own. But they are not scientific statement. The most common argument against belief in God uses scientific statements. Phillips explains why you can use that argument. In the beginning of his article, he shortly explains how in the past, our ancestors believe in God as an explanation to all the phenomena. While this is true in the past, there was also a personal reason for it as well. They worshipped God because they felt that what they needed to do. I agree with Phillips when he said that even though science explained those phenomena, there’s still a reason to

But when he went into using scientific findings to disprove God. As the other article by Phillips discussed, God cannot be disproved because it’s not a scientific topic. Pinker also makes a very interesting point about the soul. He mentioned how soul doesn’t bring any new understanding to human therefore there’s no need for soul. I don’t agree with the idea of no need for the soul. Even though it doesn’t bring any new understanding, there’s also no reason to not believe in soul. The last point Pinker discussed on was about morality. Yes, there is a rationality behind our choices of morality, but morality needs a common base among all of us. Just basing your choices on how other treated you, cannot form the morality that we have