Scientists or Science Majors Only. Has your love for science had an affect on your religion?

Question

The microbiology teacher I had in college is Catholic and she told us that her love for science never affected her love for God. Do you feel that once you started an in depth study of science it began to shake your faith?

Answer 1

No. My love for science has only reinforced my love for God, and vice versa. The two things perfectly complement one another. I have always felt that all truth is God's truth, and therefore there can never be any contradiction between the two things. The more I learn about nature, the more awed I am by her creator, and the more I learn about God, the more awed I am by the creation. How could it be otherwise?

Answer 2

While I was young it did, for belief and faith were a huge step for me to take back then. It took me 10 years of hard reasoning and study to get close enough to understand God, that I could take a small step of belief.

You will hear this more and more. God as a creator is a scientist extradonaire. We as humans are approaching making computer chips that have a gigabyte of transistors. Yet, it has taken millions of people, centuries to reach this point. And our computer chips are not alive and conscious as we are with 3 billion lines of genetic code. If our genes evolved, they had the help of a creator.

However, I also do not believe in miracles or the supernatural. All events have causes. If water was turned to wine, there was a cause and an effect. God is not a deceiver or a magician. How He did it, I don't know. He did it somehow, if this actually ocurred.

Slowly read "Proverbs" to see a practical aspect of God that can make sense to you now. There is a section on creation that is far more scientific and factual than Genesis. Slowly read Psalms" to see how God can be a powerful force in your life, and how people have struggled in their day to day lives, like we do.

Do not read the new testament, until you are ready. It takes a great deal of faith, and Christians everywhere miss a very key point. God created us for a reason, whether to be a street sweeper or a football player. He did not create us all to be purely holy, working to convert non-believers. In that respect alone, "Proverbs" is more realistic.

Take care,

Answer 3

On the contrary, my love for science LED to my love for God and they tend to both support each other when you really get down to understanding science and learning hard doctrine... I've written so many papers about the laws of physics and the creation of the world and evoloution and Adam and Eve and human reproductive cycle and everything in between...

I think it's silly when people run around quoting scientists and espousing ideas they read in a magazine and claiming that science and religion somehow can't exist together, but the truth is, they go hand in hand...

read any biography on any modern physicist and you'll see that they all KNOW there is a God...

I agree though, a bearded man with a lighting bolt in his hand sitting in the clouds is not what God is going to be...

Answer 4

To tell you the truth, when I was studying Biology, I kinda question my religion and my faith. But it was in a good way. I believe in God since childhood, and studying Biology gave me the opportunity to question my believes. But you know what, when I was studying and doing research, I believe more and more in God. Many data in the Bible is scientifically proved and my faith incremented over the years. Right now, I'm studying medicine, and I'm amazed about human perfection. Its a miracle how humans are born in perfect condition. If you study embryology you can understand why. Only one damaged gene, and you can have serious deformities or condition when the fetus is growing up. And if you study Microbiology and Immunology, you will be amazed how our bodies adapt to new pathogens. If you study Anatomy you can see, how every structure in our bodies is build with a purpose. So, over the years, my faith in God has incremented.

Answer 5

My religion drove my college career and my religion. I was raised Catholic and became a PhD physicist.

I was always bothered by a lot of issues within the bible growing up. This drove me into seeking alternatives in seeking the truth. I went into physics since it was the purest science I could find. It's ok in physics to be able to say that we don't know something yet which is not necessarily a solution in religion.

I went from Catholic to Agnostic to Atheist over the course of a decade. It wasn't that I was swayed by science but rather by the lack of hard evidence in religion. There is so much conflicting information it makes it difficult to discern truth from parable in religion whereas science will say things are merely "theories".

Answer 6

No. Truth runs in parallel lines, and truth is truth. Science and religion don't contradict each other, but compliment each other. And before anyone answers with the "age of the earth" argument, God makes a tree, it is seconds old, you go there are cut it down. It doesn't just have one ring, it it made mature. God makes a man. You have a doctor examine him. He is seconds old, but appears to be a 30 year old in all aspects. God makes a rock. It's brand new, but it shows up to be hundreds of years old when you test it. Etc. etc.

Answer 7

Science always compliment True Religion. What science is exploring, Religion has already explored years before OR I can say Science is proving the True Religion today. But one thing should be noted ie. Science is Proving and disproving but Religion remain Unchanged.God bless you.

Answer 8

Science improved my love for god. It proved the vibrational fields we exist in and the implications of the brain acting like a prism refracting those frequencies. Life is fractals. Concepts overlap. Check out Bruce Litpons Biology of Belief(good microbilogy link).

Check out 'What the bleep do we know'-- A good intro celebrating science and spirituality's synergistical reunion.

Answer 9

I've only studied science to an As level at the moment but it has had an effect on my religion as it has caused me to abandon religion as pure fiction and instead believe in the truth of science. Say no to jesus.

Answer 10

I'd say no, because religion and science are two completely different things....

Science attempts to explain life, break it down and analyze it, where as religion is more of a guide for life. It doesn't offer explination, only advice...like a road map if you will.