I can't see any anthropologist being a fundie, can you?
2007-03-11 10:00:13 · 16 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here's the thing that bugs me: Scientists are not immune to our inborn, instinctual fear of mortality. The promise of life after death is the siren song of religion and 'God' belief. So, even if every single scientist on Earth, in every scientific field, believed in 'God', would that prove his existence? I say hell no. And yet, Christians love to talk about scientists who believe, as though that proves anything.
2007-03-11 10:11:37 · answer #1 · answered by DBA GODZY 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know a psychologist who goes to a Southern Baptist church. Not sure how he can stand it. I don't know that he buys into most of it, but it seems like a strange mix, the non-judgmental therapist in a pretty judgmental religion. And he's a very smart, liberal person, which makes the whole Southern Baptist thing harder to swallow--I don't see how he can deal with listening to some of that stuff. I know I couldn't.
He said that he does skip church every time they start talking about political campaigns and candidates.
I guess scientists could do their work if they didn't really believe in it, or go to a church they really didn't believe in. But yeah, it seems an odd mix.
I have leanings toward being a linguist (I majored in it in college, and I meant to get a PhD in it, but...not yet) and I'm certainly no fundie.
2007-03-11 17:07:25 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what or who you are agreeing with when you say many scientists are theists. I would suggest the vast majority of scientists are atheists or agnostics.
Proper scientists usually have a very logical, structured,(scientific) way of thinking - and this predisposes them to having atheistic views.
The atheist's arguement for there not being a God is a very logical and evidence based one and so it is more likely to gel with a scientist's mind better than anyones!
2007-03-11 17:08:25 · answer #3 · answered by Adam L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your'e adding in the idea that evangelicals take the Adam and Eve account and early biblical accounts (Noah, Babel) literally.
Evangelical =/= creationist, necessarily.
When the church declines, God's Spirit revives it. Even Dawkins might one day repent of atheism.
2007-03-11 17:21:24 · answer #4 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in a way I can see them as a fundamentalist or evangelist. Check out www.TheCreationNetwork.org and www.CoreResearch.
These are both sites hosted by and operated by scientists from all fields of endeavor including astronomy, geology, physics and chemistry just to name a few.
2007-03-11 17:06:15 · answer #5 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why wouldn't they be evangelical (which by the way is different then fundamentalist) Science has never proven anything in the Bible as being false, but has verified many things in the Bible as being true.
2007-03-11 17:05:49 · answer #6 · answered by Deus Luminarium 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If anything they might be Liberals. If they were Fundamentalist/Evangelicals they would probably destroy all of the equipment once they felt threatend and started questioning their beliefs and faith in God due to something they might discover due to science lol.
2007-03-11 17:14:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are very many christian scientists. Scientific facts have never been found to contradict the Bible.
2007-03-11 17:23:31 · answer #8 · answered by pmzenz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure they can
There is no conflict
In fact studies of science have led a number of scientists to a personal relationship with Christ
2007-03-11 17:07:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Kurt Wise comes to mind, a young earth creationist who was educated at harvard by nobody less than Gould.
2007-03-11 17:04:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋