Kiranga
Re: My post #55 and your response # 59 (liked by Ivuga):
God's existence is documented in the Bible, which you don't believe and you view it as a Jewish mythology. Only scientific evidence makes sense to you, fair enough!
OK,
Science Proves God exist
Charles Darwin started a theory of evolution which later was taught in biology classrooms including here in Bongo, there was a theory of use and misuse which basically said If an organ or muscle is used excessively it will grow bigger and if not it will decrease in size and if that continues for a long time that organ or muscle will become vegetative or lost. They pointed out to an appendix being a vegetative organ and a proof of the theory. Furthermore, students were also told that living things acquire organs or loose them depending on the need, for example Jongoo (millipeds) lost their eyes that way millions of years ago. That was aethist propaganda to mislead and distort the truth about God by hiding behind science.
Unaanza kwa kusema "science proves god exists" halafu hutuonyeshi ni vipi sayansi ina "prove" the existence of god. Hebu tuendelee, labda una kitu hapo mbele.
Molecular genetics has proved that living things carry within themselves INFORMATION coded in their genes as DNA which determine their appearance, size and types of organs they constitute.
Doesn't prove god exists.
Information is not material, you need an intellectual being to think and give information.
This is where I think you are wrong, but even if we say you are right, that you need an intellectual being to think and give information, you are only defeating the god idea. Because, the entity of god which is supposed to have all this information, cannot spring out of nowhere (according to your assertion that information needs an intellectual being) so you remove the role of the "first mover" from this god, and god will need a creator, and his creator will need a creator, in an endless cycle.
The issue here is that, we are prejudiced by our limited experiences. A limited experience tells you the earth is flat, but delving into matters shows us otherwise. When you couple this with the desire to have a father figure who is all knowledgeable and all oving, plus the sheer mob psychology, believing is almost irresistible.
Now who thought of this information, designed it and coded it into living thing's genes to give them order to reproduce in their own kind and likeness?
As stated above I can always ask "If information must be coded by an intelligent being, who coded the information in god?" . If you say nobody coded the information god had, then you break your principle that information must be coded, you show us that information can exist without being coded by an intelligent being.
You can't win on this one, if you say some other being coded information into god, then god is not the first mover, and therefore not god at all (at least in the Judeo-Christian tradition). If you say nobody coded the information into god, then you pretty much violate your principle that "information must be coded by an intelligent author".
God and Science?
Are they incompatible? Do they contradict or disapprove each other? No they don't.
The trouble is among the scientists themselves and not science. I think Kiranga you are a man or woman of good knowledge with a background of science, if that is a case then i assume you must have heard a recent controversy among global warming scientists, how they cooked and skewed data to prove that there is global warming (another God denying hoax), not only they skewed and cooked data, they suppressed data which didn't favour their point of view.
I talked about bad science before, this is nothing I do not already know. Somebody wrote a whole book about this it is called "Science Friction" (a wordplay on "Science Fiction") where the author challenges many widely accepted scientific notions such as cancer cannot be contagious, oil is a fossil fuel etc etc. So I am aware of the human faults and the politics in scientific research.
But my one thing is, science is a self calibrating discipline based on verification and challenges. I mean as accomplished and proven as Eistein's relativity is, there are scientific researches scrutinizing it up to now. People are disputing the big bang theory as accomplished as it is. That is the basis of science, verification and reverification.
Unfortunatley faith/ religion cannot claim the same. Wewe unaambiwa tu "mungu yupo, amini" hamna proof, hamna scrutiny, ukileta scrutiny unaambiwa unakufuru etc. This is one thing that makes me think faith is inferior to science.
BTW bado hujaprove mungu ana exist, kila attempt inagonga mwamba.
Take a historical look at Europe, they rebelled against religious beliefs in the 18th and 19th centuries well marked by the French Revolution and they declared that humans are capable of controlling their own destiny and they don't need God to help them. This gave birth to a lot of European movements including humanism, socialist/communism, aethism etc. Europeans started to move in a different direction and needed justification for their action and the only best justification was to prove that God does not exist. So they recruited scientists among their own ranks including people like Charles Darwin.
Still doesnt prove god exist. You stated very clearly from the onset that "science proves god exists". I am yet to see this proof.
In today's world, most scientists have an aethist's point of view, some are open aethist like Prof. Hawkins in UK, they continue the job which were started by Darwin and co. to prove the non existence of God.
I always prefer to warn people to know whose documentation they read both in politics and science.
Still no proof.
Religion and science
Again i draw your attention to Europe before Christianity, People there lived in underground caves, of course to survive freezing winter and they were sacrificing humans and other traditional worships just like our African ancestors did. There were no schools neither science. Check the history of Saint Paul Church in London, it is supposedly the first school in UK. Modern education and science started by those who believed in God, especially God of Jesus Christ! Majority of first scientists were believers and God fearing people (Isaac Newton, Estein,Pasteur etc)
No proof
If Modern science is incompatible with God, how could it have been started up by God believers? Why in Tanzania schools were started everywhere missionaries settled if knowledge and science contradicts God. This situation is not only in Tanzania, it is throughout the world developed and non developed. Many governments in every country nationalized or made agreement with religious institutions to take over their schools.
Did aethists or other non believing people start a school to teach science to their children anywhere in the world? They might have started schools but they taught sacrifices to gods and spirits .
Just horrible non-argument. But still doesn't prove god exists.
In summary
1. Discovery in molecular genetics of Coded genetic information in form of DNA in living things, is a huge challenge for those who deny the existence of God
I discussed how the "information must have an author" argument actually defeats the argument that god exists.
2. Modern education and science was started by believers
This does not mean a thing, the fact that believers started "modern education" does not prove that god exists.
Ni kama vile nakuuliza "prove that Lee Iacocca exists", na wewe unanijibu "modern electric cars were started by the Japanese" dude, totally off tangent.
3. Earlier scientists also believed in God
Hahaa, what are you trying to prove? That everything earlier scientists believed is true? If so, earlier scientists also believed the earth was flat, the earth was at the centre of the universe, that the universe was made up of a number of fixed spheres fixing the planets and the stars, that the Milky Way Galaxy was the entire universe, that two bodies of different masses fall down at different rates etc.
Do you also believe all of those?
4. A group of scientists with a rebellious mind started after the French revolution to satisfy the appetite of non believing European in their new belief that humans don't need God for anything.
And how does this prove god exists? I am looking for this proof as promised by you.
5. The Rebellious group of scientists have grown to become the mainstream of science and they control and all the scientific opinion
It will be very easy to dismiss them totally and justifiably, just prove god exists.
6. The damage has been so serious that at our present time most of European and other westerners are anti God
How does this prove god exists?
7. People in other part of the world like Africa we are just blind followers to our own peril.
Most people in Africa are believers, do you mean blind followers of Christianity/ Islam and other imported religions?