Do you believe in god?

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Why does Science have to disprove/prove God?
Why does Science and God have to contradict each other?
Why can't they support each other?

True Science is built on the foundation that you have to be able to observe something in order for it to be accepted and since you can't observe the physicality of God you can't create a theory of God. However, Instead of trying to use Science to prove God what if you use God to prove Science and accept that Science is simply showing us Gods blueprints. Essentially, through Science we are recreating God's manual for everything.

I have never felt God and Science are at odds. Just that many of the common ideas within religions are at odds with Science. Example. Judeo-Christian-Islamic creation stories are very similar. God created all in 6 days. However, in both Arabic and Hebrew the word that is typically translated as days actually means a span of time. Let's take this a step further. A day is the amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate 360 degrees. However, different planets have different actual time amounts that would equal a day. Day one and two happen prior to any planets, Earth included, it can't be possible that the 'day' referred to in any religious literature's creation story is the same time frame as Earth's day. I would surmise that the 'day' is actually some greatly longer time frame. There for the 6 time frames of creation do not contradict the most popular theory of Big Bang. I'm sure you could easily divide the creation of all and then the specifics of this planet in 6 different phases, that don't even need to be equal. After all, one of the two creation stories in Genesis doesn't even mention days at all. (Yes, carefully read your Bible there are two distinct creation stories)

Then if you actually read the Qur'ans specifics about creation it actually maps nearly perfectly with a imagery description of the Big Bang theory.

Examples:

""Moreover He comprehended in His design the sky, and it had been (as) smoke: He said to it and to the earth: 'Come ye together, willingly or unwillingly.' They said: 'We do come (together), in willing obedience.' So He completed them as seven firmaments in two Days, and He assigned to each heaven its duty and command. And We adorned the lower heaven with lights, and (provided it) with guard. Such is the Decree of (Him) the Exalted in Might, Full of Knowledge."" (The Noble Quran, 41:11-12)

The Arabic word for "sky" in Verse 41:11 above is "samaa", which is the same word used for "heaven" and "Universe". Since the 7 heavens didn't exist yet (because the seven firmaments or heavens were mentioned in the next Verse 41:12), then this CLEARLY MAKES the "samaa" be referring to the Universe, since the heaven was the entire Universe when GOD Almighty "comprehended in His design the sky". He then later divided it into seven firmaments or heavens.

Anyway, as we clearly see above in the Noble Verses, Allah Almighty initially created the Universe or the "samaa" with smoke (Dukhan). Dukhan in Arabic refers to the smoke coming from fire, which is always HOT GAS. From that He made the 7 'heavens' with lights, i.e. stars, and even pulled together Earth and everything else, a concept matching the idea of how all stars and planets were formed.

Also....

""Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?"" (The Noble Quran, 21:30)

Now as to Verse 21:30 above, according to the Big Bang Theory, the Universe experienced an unbelievable explosion from the hot gases that were forming it, which caused the Universe (which consisted of the ball of gases) to split and expand. The Earth was separated then from the gaseous mass that was forming the Universe. The gases according to the scientific articles below in this article made "the universe be consisted of compact ball of hydrogen -- protons, neutrons, electrons, and their anti-particles -- plus radiation. There were not differentiated planets, stars, suns, galaxies. Five billion years ago, the compact hydrogen soup blasted apart with huge force, matter was hurled in all directions, and the universe doubled in size. This expansion of the universe is still going on.

Plus the last part of that verse specifically mentions the idea of evolution from the oceans.

Now I could go on about the actual parts of religious texts that prove other Science theories way before we as a species even thought of these things, but I think you get my point by now.

Basically, to me the notion that either God or Science is right is just wrong. I think both are right and actually help explain each other.