Random question but here goes: if a scientist is a christan, then how do they believe the world started? Because if scientists believe the big-bang theory, and christians believe God made it, then what does a Christian Scientist believe??
2006-11-21 03:06:47 · 28 answers · asked by elzyXx 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok people, I read that out of a textbook! I personally did not mean to generalize - so sorry if I did. In my GCSE science textbook it says that scientists believe the big-bang theory - words exactly! So chill people that are stressing!
2006-11-21 03:22:34 · update #1
And thankyou dsclimb1 - "DO questions like this automatically get the thumbs down from anyone religous just because someone else has challenged their view? funny and sad."
2006-11-21 03:27:27 · update #2
I believe that is an oxymoron.
2006-11-21 03:08:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 9⤋
From a Scientist perspective, many Christian Scientist believe that if you can explain everything by equations and that the universe is mathematical then it must have been created by someone deliberatley.
Few believe in Genesis etc.. those are the wackos who are trying to change the way children are educated about science, evolution,..etc..
The Christian Scientist theory is pretty much based on if the chance of life in the universe is so very small then some outside entity must have started life. Which may well prove to be true, but at present there is ZERO evidence pointing towards this and even the theorists can't imagine what or how !!!
DO questions like this automatically get the thumbs down from anyone religous just because someone else has challenged their view? funny and sad.
2006-11-21 03:13:10 · answer #2 · answered by dsclimb1 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You yourself called it the Big Bang THEORY. Just like evolution is still a THEORY. Being a scientist doesn't mean you follow the crowd in believing the most commonly held theories. Scientists are supposed to study facts and the natural world. Religion deals mainly with the supernatural, putting it outside of the realm of science. Besides which, who says God didn't create the universe with the Big Bang? That energy and matter had to come from somewhere...
2006-11-21 03:13:10 · answer #3 · answered by Epitome_inc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they might share some comparable ideals (i don't be attentive to, i'm no longer an authority). even if, the Christian Scientists are Christian. meaning they suspect that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and could come back to save the truthful. Scientologists have self belief interior the belief presented in L Ron Hubbard's e book "Dianetics" that each physique human souls are extremely extraterrestrial beings and Earth is a few form of penitentiary with all of human historical past being falsified by utilising some intergalactic great-villain.
2016-11-25 22:47:13 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many christian scientists do not believe that the world started with a big bang, and can back up their belief in a creator and the biblical account of it all with science.
2006-11-21 04:33:46 · answer #5 · answered by good tree 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christian belief is a matter of faith. To paraphrase St. Paul; look neither to the Law nor the philosophies of the Greeks, but to faith in Jesus Christ.
In other words, a belief in Christianity is to have faith in Jesus. To believe (as many do) in the literal truth of Genesis is to be credulous and be in denial of one's own reason!
As a person with a science degree and working in a technical profession, I have no problem with current modern theories in the evolution of the universe. Anything pre-Big Bang is by definition, unknowable because it is before the creation of space-time.
As I have written before, the Bible is a great book on morality, really terrible as a science text book.
2006-11-21 03:25:57 · answer #6 · answered by 13caesars 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just because you are a scientist does not mean that you cannot be a christian. There are many out there who believe. They are willing to challenge their beliefs and are not scared to work out the answers. People should be more open to challenges. If their believes are strong enough then they will withstand it.
2006-11-21 22:39:10 · answer #7 · answered by Toxilocks 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientist believe what ever their faith is. They study and prove what ever their Field is.
example. the best possible human explanation of the creation of the universe is the big bang theory. But, who's to say that a higher being didn't cause this or control it?
2006-11-21 03:10:19 · answer #8 · answered by Coool 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not all scientist believe that Big Bang hooey. It's totally unproven, just like the creation theory. Some of the greatest scientists in history were christians, or at least deists, and they didn't believe in the Big Bang.
2006-11-21 03:12:14 · answer #9 · answered by bandit 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why do you think "God made it" and the Big Bang Theory contradict each other?
Religions and philosophies are disciplines created to seek answers to questions of meaning - the "Why?" questions.
Science is a discipline created to seek answers to questions about the material world - the "How?" questions.
Science is much more successful at answering its questions than religion is (religion can never be done with any question), yet this is because religion and philosophy deal with questions of more utimate importance. For me, it balances out to say that one is not inherently "better" than the other.
But they deal with completely different areas, each one better suited to do his job than the other's job.
So as a Christian and a physics student, to find out HOW the universe was created I look to science. To answer questions of meaning like WHY we were put here, I look to religion and philosophy.
There is no contradiction for those who can respect each discipline's purpose.
~ Lib
2006-11-21 03:22:13 · answer #10 · answered by LibChristian 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe all scientists sit around studying the big bang theory.
What there job is, and what there personal beliefs are, are two different things.
2006-11-21 03:09:19 · answer #11 · answered by <><><> 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋