do doctors after studying many many biology classes still believe in GOD?

Question

also do some biologist after learning about evolution, still believe in GOD

Answer 1

Yep, I have a doctorate in biology and have studied the theory of evolution. I think it takes as much faith to believe that we evolved from a chemical soup as it does to believe in God. However religious people should not be afraid of the theory of evolution nor bury their heads in the sand. Whether life occurred spontaneously or whether it was orchestrated by an intelligent being does not detract from the fact that there is genetic variability between individuals and between species. Life could not persist on this earth without genetic variation and without the ability to adapt to changes in our environment. DNA sequencing and studying embryo development clearly demonstrates that we are made from the same basic template as other animals. We are 95% genetically similar to chimpanzees, and around 50% similar to fruit flies. "Creatures as distant from humans as the fruit fly or roundworm have genes whose DNA sequence is recognizably similar to their human counterparts, as if they were variant spellings of the same word". So physically, the human species is not at all unique.

What makes us unique is that we are the literal spiritual offspring of God. Our physical bodies are given to us in this life to help us learn and grow. Eventually we will receive a perfected glorified body of flesh and bones like God's.

Answer 2

Yes, I'm training to be a doctor and biologist. And I believe in God and evolution and creation. I personally feel that there is no conflict here, although I understand that other Christians may disagree. The important lesson from the creation story is that God created everything, not how he did it. I think Job 38-39 is particularly illuminating on this point. We should have great humility whenever we attempt to describe how creation occured. I think the main theological issue that is difficult for many people is not whether the diversity of life that we see around us all came into being simultaneously or over the course of a long time, but what does evolution imply about the status of humans, and how can we be made in the image of God if we evolved gradually from an animal that was not fully human. At what point did we get an immortal soul? I think many people would agree that a soul is not made out of cells and atoms. Therfore, I don't think souls are physically transmitted or created by sexual reproduction. I think only God can endow life with a soul and that this occurs in a way that we don't understand which is quite possibly independent of the physical processes of developing life. I believe that physical evolution was continuous from animals to people, but human beings as an animal with special status, in God's image, occured when God breathed life into us and gave us an immortal soul.

Answer 3

I had a college professor who taught many of my Botany classes and Evolution. At the beginning the the Evolution class he said that he didn't care what your religious beliefs were, he was going to teach us what science knows and believes about evolution. He also told us that it was a theory so it had strong evidence but couldn't be proved 100%. At the end of the class he told us he was a devoted Christian and his personal feelings were that there was a God and that evolution does occur on a smaller scale. So I think it comes down to what a person believes.

Answer 4

Evolution does not deny the existence of god, so no.

In fact, many see evolution as a tool god has used to create what is in the world.

I know of many biologists who believe in god.

Answer 5

Obviously, different people have different beliefs. Even in the presence or absence of overwhelming beliefs, intelligent people are capable of rationalizing the illogical. The intelligence and creativity of human beings is quite capable of fabricating plenty of comfortable self-delusions.

Statistical studies have shown that the vast majority of scientists do not believe in God. See the following study that was conducted recently:

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html

In the above, it was found that biologists had the lowest rate (5.5%) of belief.

Evolution itself does not contain anything that contradicts the idea of God. However, those who are trained in science often learn to discard unfounded beliefs that are unsupported by any real evidence, especially when science provides tangible, testable theories that work in the real world.

Answer 6

Yeah. i'm a med student, and my class is stuffed with relgious individuals. the very truth of the remember is that maximum medical doctors have a tendency to be religious in some sort or style. Eh. i became a researcher (bio) and that i stumble on it very complicated for someone to do bio study and nevertheless deny such issues as evolution. they could nevertheless remember on a god, yet standard concepts of their religions are in-turn deemed "incorrect." And to the first dude who replied your question, evolution does exist and is extremely achievable. I reason evolution on a commonplace foundation in my labs, and that is absurd to imagine it may't exist. the mathematics backs evolution, and so do the study of purely about each and every commonly used biology depending study attempt contained in the awesome 30 years.

Answer 7

First of all it depends on how you define God. I am assuming you are referring to Christianity...
I have studied chemistry and molecular biology.
If you truly understand science there is actually not much of a rivalry with religion.
I stopped believing in the teachings of the church once I actually studied the Bible. Can't say that I am an atheist though.I just see things (and God) from a completely different perspective.

Answer 8

There r rules for every thing. Even at chemical, molecular level, what force defines this rules no one knows. Probably god .Doctors still cant save life knowing so much n in cases where no medicine or treatment work faith heals. Doctors r next only to god but in end they also pray to god .

Answer 9

Some do, some don't. It's harder to believe in the incompetent god of fundamentalists who has to constantly meddle in the operation of the universe in obvious ways, once you develop a detailed understanding of the natural world.

Most of them regard the idea of such a deity as too unlikely to bear serious consideration, preferring a position of agnosticism, atheism or deism.

Answer 10

Yes,doctors after studying lot of bio. still believe in god