I know that, in the past, many scientists believed in God. Are there modern scientists who believe in God?

Question

If you know some, give details, please: name, field of activity etc. Thank you.

Answer 1

About 66% of scientist believe in God today, and about 76% of doctors.

Answer 2

Of course there are. But generally speaking, the percentage of scientists who believe in god is much smaller than the percentage of the general population that does. And the better a scientist they are (say, a member of the National Academy), the less likely they are again to believe in god.

Try Francis Collins or Ken Miller. Both are outspoken religious people, and very good scientists.

Answer 3

I know in the past many scientists were murdered by Christians and others so they assumed the aspects to stay alive and acceptable to those that paid them. They probably still continue this tactic to live long and normally.

Example: Ga·li·le·o Ga·li·lei 1564-1642. Italian astronomer and physicist. The first to use a telescope to study the stars (1610), he was an outspoken advocate of Copernicus's theory that the sun forms the center of the universe, which led to his persecution and imprisonment by the Inquisition (1633).

Answer 4

There are many great modern scientist who believe in God. My daughter is a nuclear physics research scientist at major hospital and an Ivy League college. I know she believes in God. :-)

Answer 5

Yes,there are modern day scientists who believe in God.But there are far too many to list biographical details and field of experience on here.
According to this survey,two thirds of scientists believe in a god.
http://www.livescience.com/othernews/050811_scientists_god.html

Answer 6

Most sane scientists started to question the Bible when the world discovered the world was round--not flat,immovable & standing on pillars as the Bible states (Samual1-Ch2v8 ) (Psalm 104:5)

Answer 7

There are, but they are rare and getting rarer. The National Academy of scientists are 93% Atheist or Agnostic.

Answer 8

Mathematician Frank J Tipler, author of "The Physics of Immortality".

Answer 9

Sorry I can't name any famous ones off the top of my head. I know of many Christian doctors, nurses, and health care workers.
I know the entire faculty of my university are Christians, even the Science professors (and yes, they went to "legimate" universities including Duke and Washington State), and have worked with NIH grants, etc. I am a Biology/Chemistry student, and I am a Christian and believe in God.
I think the more you learn the more you realize the complexity and beauty of life and the universe, the more you realize it would be impossible for it to be by chance.
Look into things like Irreducible conplexity, the intricacy of DNA (Even Watson and Crick admitted it's too complex for it to have evolved in even the largest estimate of time the universe may have existed; they opted to believe an advanced alien race made DNA and implanted on earth for evolution to occur from this "seeding"; I have a question for them : if there wasn't enough time in the universe for our DNA to have evolved, then how could an alien race extremely superior to humanity have evolved in millions of years less time, plus developed the culture and technology to make genetic material, and implant it into another world?)
Think of the order inherent to even each individual atom. Each is made of a balancing number of protons and neutrons, with a number of electrons to approximately balance the charge of the protons in the nucleus (approximate because if they were exact, chemical would be so much less reactive that life could not exist), with a valence shell of 8 electrons designed to give rise to complex interacting chains of related molecule compoundsl each; even each proton and neutron is made up of separate parts. Even the "chaotic" cosmos have planets and stars that follow intricate orbits on gravitational fields. Think of the forces of gravity, of magnetic actraction, of electricity. So many things...
Macroevolution, though in theory possible, has so astronomical of odds of occuring it is practically absurd to attribute even a few species to being products of it. Almost all mutations are harmful, and almost all variation occurs within the same species, which can afterward revert by genetic drift to it's originally dominant phenotypes. If a species' population adapts to a new climate, over time it may lose a lot of it ability to adapt back to a previous state. Then if the climate changes again, the previous loss of variations will likely cause a lot of the existing population to die off, further reducing it's potential to variate. Such evolution is almost entirely within a species, and almost entirely a downward de-progression.
Fossils have not been found in any species showing a progression of intermediate states from one species to another, and in fact, the fossils found in the "cambrean explosion" era all arise suddenly, at similar times, and showing no previous evidence of life other than single-celled organisms. Evolution makes no explanation as to how single-cells organisms could instantly arise from bacteria-like creatures.
Anyway, I haven't made the most convincing arguments, but order comes from order, intelligence comes from intelligence, and species for the most part stay species.

God is the God of special creation of the God of genetic variation.

I hope I've not offended or irratated anyone with resonce further than what was asked, but I wanted to give reasoning behind my faith.

God bless and goodnight

Answer 10

Most do. It's the humanist studies departments that produce the self-annointed messiahs,...usually half-baked marxists..
the 'do-gooders'.