Just consider this...in the course of human history, science has been wrong (to some degree) almost every time.
But besides that, why does a belief in the Almighty preclude a career in science and medicine? The applications of science and medicine deal with what's here now and how it can best be utilized to improve our condition. It matters not one whit where the stuff initially came from. The simple fact that you see beyond yourself, that there is a greater good than the self, proves that somewhere in you is the Spark of God.
Best of luck in your chosen career.
2006-12-19 14:32:52
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answered by mzJakes 7
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Since ALL life science is based on evolution, you will have a tough time getting through it if you are going to say the entire basis is bunk.
I mean if you were created separate from a mouse, there really isn't any point in testing medications on a mouse. There isn't really any point in watching how cancer affects a monkey, if it doesn't apply. There isn't any point in studying the genetics of humans verses other primates if there isn't a common ancestor.
2006-12-19 14:42:02
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answered by Alex 6
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you need to read the Darwin theory : Evolution by natural selection, the central concept of the life's work of Charles Darwin, is a theory. It's a theory about the origin of adaptation, complexity, and diversity among Earth's living creatures. If you are skeptical by nature, unfamiliar with the terminology of science, and unaware of the overwhelming evidence, you might even be tempted to say that it's "just" a theory. In the same sense, relativity as described by Albert Einstein is "just" a theory. The notion that Earth orbits around the sun rather than vice versa, offered by Copernicus in 1543, is a theory. Continental drift is a theory. The existence, structure, and dynamics of atoms? Atomic theory. Even electricity is a theoretical construct, involving electrons, which are tiny units of charged mass that no one has ever seen. Each of these theories is an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what scientists mean when they talk about a theory: not a dreamy and unreliable speculation, but an explanatory statement that fits the evidence. They embrace such an explanation confidently but provisionally—taking it as their best available view of reality, at least until some severely conflicting data or some better explanation might come along.
The rest of us generally agree. We plug our televisions into little wall sockets, measure a year by the length of Earth's orbit, and in many other ways live our lives based on the trusted reality of those theories.
Evolutionary theory, though, is a bit different. It's such a dangerously wonderful and far-reaching view of life that some people find it unacceptable, despite the vast body of supporting evidence. As applied to our own species, Homo sapiens, it can seem more threatening still. Many fundamentalist Christians and ultra-orthodox Jews take alarm at the thought that human descent from earlier primates contradicts a strict reading of the Book of Genesis. Their discomfort is paralleled by Islamic creationists such as Harun Yahya, author of a recent volume titled The Evolution Deceit, who points to the six-day creation story in the Koran as literal truth and calls the theory of evolution "nothing but a deception imposed on us by the dominators of the world system." The late Srila Prabhupada, of the Hare Krishna movement, explained that God created "the 8,400,000 species of life from the very beginning," in order to establish multiple tiers of reincarnation for rising souls. Although souls ascend, the species themselves don't change, he insisted, dismissing "Darwin's nonsensical theory."
Other people too, not just scriptural literalists, remain unpersuaded about evolution. According to a Gallup poll drawn from more than a thousand telephone interviews conducted in February 2001, no less than 45 percent of responding U.S. adults agreed that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so." Evolution, by their lights, played no role in shaping us.
Only 37 percent of the polled Americans were satisfied with allowing room for both God and Darwin—that is, divine initiative to get things started, evolution as the creative means. (This view, according to more than one papal pronouncement, is compatible with Roman Catholic dogma.) Still fewer Americans, only 12 percent, believed that humans evolved from other life-forms without any involvement of a god.
The most startling thing about these poll numbers is not that so many Americans reject evolution, but that the statistical breakdown hasn't changed much in two decades. Gallup interviewers posed exactly the same choices in 1982, 1993, 1997, and 1999. The creationist conviction—that God alone, and not evolution, produced humans—has never drawn less than 44 percent. In other words, nearly half the American populace prefers to believe that Charles Darwin was wrong where it mattered most.
2006-12-19 14:31:36
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answered by dragontears 4
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You can work in the field of science and still be a believer.If they say you cannot,then that is a lie.Follow your dreams and help the helpless.Heal the sick,and remember it was God who gave you that wisdom,and give him the glory for it.Let him work in your heart and your life,and you can do many great things in the name of science and God.
2006-12-19 14:36:44
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answered by Derek B 4
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There's nothing wrong with science, but you need to realize God made everything. It doesn't matter if you figure out how He did it, just realize He did. Everything you see, feel, etc., came from Him. He gave us a brain to reason with, so there's nothing wrong with using it.
2006-12-19 14:29:31
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answered by jerrys_love 3
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