Question

Note how several of these explanations use catastrophes appearing in religious texts to explain natural events. How does this illustrate the influence of the wider culture and prevailing ideas on people investigating the natural world?

Answer 1

Answer:

Some people think that God uses natural catastrophes to punish human beings, other people reject that idea, and there are even those who do not know what to believe. Most religions claim that no one can know a certain science if natural disasters happen or not by divine will.

Explanation:

There is currently no basis for claiming that natural disasters are part of a divine plan to punish humanity. Since God is a sign of justice, he never eliminated the righteous with the wicked, rather, he had measures to help all who obeyed him. On the contrary, natural disasters affected men, women and children, without distinction.

It is obvious that indiscriminate natural disasters do not follow the pattern of divine crises observed in the Scriptures. What's more, it doesn't even harmonize with the personality of God.