Are you a Christian and a scientist?

Question

How is this possiable? Science answers so many questions....You can see science. In 5,000 years the sun will essentially blow up...We will be all dead. How do Christians explain that?Is God going to help us find away to not meet this doom? ;) I'm just a curious Christian who has taken way to many psychology/science classes. ;)

I ment to say 5 billion years.

Couldn't God have created Science?

Answer 1

Yes, I am a Christian and a biologist. I see absolutely no conflict between the two. Science and Religion are the two great seekers of truth, and no genuine truth offered by one can conflict with a genuine truth offered by the other. Truth cannot conflict with truth. The two also provide some checks and balances for each other. Science may discover that cloning of human beings is possible, but religious truth demands that while it is possible it is not morally acceptable. On the other hand, science has clearly demonstrated that new species have replaced earlier species ever since life appeared on earth. This fact is irrefutable, so we know that personal interpretations of the Scriptures which conflict with this fact are simply wrong. It is not that either science or the Bible has overall greater authority than the other. But in matters of science, science clearly is the authority, while in matters of divine revelation the Bible is obviously the authority. The problem however is that while the Bible itself as God's Word may hold authority, personal guesses as to what specific Scripture passages might mean do not hold authority, especially when they contradict known truth.

Answer 2

How about a Christian (yes, Catholics are Christians too) and a geologist?

Not a problem to be both, have been for over 30 years.

Science is the study and understanding of what is around you. Its provable, disprovable, and has physical characteristics.

Faith is blind acceptance of fundamental beliefs (dogma) that are largely unprovable. It is in your spirit and how you conduct your life. Faith has no physical characteristics.

Science can tell you everything on how human life begins, from conception to birth. Science cannot, and will never be able to tell your when this new life receives its spirituality, its soul.

Evolution is a science, creationism is a religious belief. One does not "believe" in evolution, one studies evolution as a science. To "believe" in evolution implies that it is a faith, which it is not. At what point in man's evolution did he receive his spirituality, the first soul, Adam? Evolution science cannot explain this. Faith can, but it cannot be scientifically proven, so don't even try.

Faith and science are not interchangeable nor are they exclusive of each other. Its that simple.

Answer 3

Just a christian. God is however beyond all science or anything we will ever be able to understand. Sun blow up in 5k yrs? Only God knows for sure. Where is scientific evidence of that? God will do what he wants with the sun. God is showing us a way to not meet doom if we only follow it.

God Bless you

Answer 4

since when is the sun blowing up in 5k years?

I think a true Christian scientist is a really hard thing to do because science by definition thrives on skepticism and research while Christianity does so by stopping the mind from thinking and accepting things without evidence. The ones that are both I have noticed grew up as Theists and were unable to shake it off growing up, so they compartmentalize in their brain and somehow manage to live with the two.

Answer 5

I don't believe GOD created science as much as He created the events that science studies.
you say your a Christian do you really think Christ is going to wait 5 billion years to come back?
I don't

Answer 6

Christianity is always being tested by scientists. Most recently: the Shroud, Noah's ark, and scrolls. Yes science can prove the "scientific method". Those four components are real!

Answer 7

It isn't possible to be a close-minded, fundamentalist, rightwing Christian and also be a Scientist, but it is perfeclty possible to be an honestly spiritual, open-minded Christian who keeps both religion and science in perspective and also be a proper Scientist.

Answer 8

re: the sun blowing up

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

re: scientists who are Christians

http://www.tektonics.org/scim/sciencemony.htm

Here is the first entry on a long list.

Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/collins.html, in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

“I think there’s a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

“Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it’s rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, ‘Faith is actually plausible.’ You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone.”

Answer 9

Yeah it is definitely possible. Scientist aren't trying to disprove the notion of any God anywhere. Scientist are trying to figure out how the world works around us. So if you have a christian/religious scientist you could say they are trying to figure out how God does it, how does the world work by his/her/its influence.

Answer 10

It is possibly the one thing that makes humans stand out from among the other animals, the innate ability to hold two contradictory beliefs as true at the same time.