Can you be a scientist and a believer in God?

Question

Since God doesn't exist and nobody can prove otherwise are there a lot of scientists or mathematicians who believe in God?

Answer 1

Of course.

Belief is not the same as proof. And our lives are big enough to require both.

Answer 2

There are a lot of believers that become scientists, and I am using that world very loosely, to try and prove their religion.

If you look at the Royal Society there are very few believers. I forget the stats but it is somewhere around 7 percent and even lower among biologists.

I had that wrong. NAS is 7%. Royal Society was 3.3%:

American scientists considered eminent enough by their peers to have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to being a Fellow of the Royal Society in Britain) only about 7 per cent believe in a personal God.

Answer 3

Yes there are scientists and mathematicians who believe in god. The problem is Christians wont accept anything but believing everything in the bible.

I attend church every week because I want to learn more. I don't know if I believe or not. I guess not yet.

I disagree with anything supernatural, Intelligent design, teaching god through fear, etc.

My theory is that anyone with a high IQ has trouble being religious in the christian sense. I base this on the fact that in all my years of church I have never met a genius. I have a 182 IQ and do not consider myself a genius because I have not used my abilities very well.

I guess I go to church because I like the show and I want someone to prove that its all true.

Answer 4

Why not ask one of the United State's top scientists?

Of course you can. According to Dr. Francis Collins, director ofthe Human Genome Project, "I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict beween those world views.... Can you both pursue an understanding of how life works using the tools of genetics and molecular biology, and worship a creator God? Aren't evolution and faith in God incompatible? Can a scientist believe in miracles like the resurrection?

Actually, I find no conflict here, and neither apparently do the 40 percent of working scientists who claim to be believers. Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

But why couldn't this be God's plan for creation?"

Answer 5

Are you asking whether a scientist can logically & consistently believe in a Creator? The short answer is 'Yes'.

My father has a Ph.D. in Agronomy & Environmental Science and is a Biblical Six-day Young Earth Creationist. His vocation as a scientist doesn't compromise his faith; neither does his faith compromise his vocation as a scientist.

There are some scientists who are Theists, but who are still inconsistent in their beliefs (Theistic-Evolutionists & some Intelligent Designers). They are good at compartmentalizing. However, there are also Six-day, Young Earth Creationists who do not compromise God's Word nor science. Here's a list online: http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/default.asp

Answer 6

Definitely yes. Sir Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur, even Albert Einstein (though he was not a Christian, he did believe in God). Ken Hamm, Kent Hovind, Dr. Henry Morris and Dr. Duane Gish, just to name a few. Also of note, the renowned British philosopher, Anthony Flew, abandoned atheism after 60 years because of what he said was overwhelming evidence for intelligent design. You can see an interview with him on Leestrobel.com.

Answer 7

Theistic mathematicians are more common. There are theistic scientists, most of these though discount the creationist/literal interpretations of holy books and are more concerned with finding god in nature.

Which is where science actually started from in the first place.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Yes, I am and I do.

Personally, I remain agnostic on some of the finer points of theology - comes naturally to a good Anglican, I suppose - but even as a scientist, I believe there must be some kind of Godlike entity behind the universe.

Answer 10

Not only are many scientists believers, but recent evidence seems to reinforce the connectedness of everything and existence of God.

General Relativity, M Theory and Quantum Mechanics currently describe a reality where:

The fundamental constituent of nature is a packet of energy which emerges from an all-pervasive background field of energy to form subatomic particles and all matter in the universe.

Everything is connected to and emergent from this same background of energy. Everything affects everything else.

This background field is also a probability field. Every possible experience exists simultaneously. A given reality forms when consciousness chooses one from all possible realities.

As a result, consciousness and energy pre-exist matter and creation, and act together to form reality. Reality may obey physical laws, but everything springs from consciousness acting on energy.

A pre-existing consciousness residing in an all-pervasive engergy form from which all creation springs sounds an awful lot like God to me.

God enacted a process that results in the unfolding and evolution of the universe, just as a seed grows and blossoms into a flower. We see physical evidence of this process in the geologic record. That evidence of His unfolding process in no way contradicts the reality of the Creator.

Answer 11

Sure, why not?

Maybe there isnt a scientific or mathmatical proof of god. That doesnt mean a person who studies chemicals for a living can't go to church on Sunday. Granted, many scientists choose not to go to church because of thier findings. But other scientists, like say, a computer scientist (I know one) could go to church if they want to.