Are any reputable scientists also Christians??

Question

If so, who, and where can I read about their beliefs?

Answer 1

I just looked up my own denomination on Wikipedia and found this list, I bet you could find a list under all sorts of denominations on there:

Scientists/Inventors

* Alan Ashton, co-founder, WordPerfect Corporation, and pioneer developer of word processor software
* Nathaniel Baldwin, physicist, engineer and founder of the Baldwin Radio Company, inventor of headphones
* Woody Bledsoe, mathematician, computer scientist, and Artificial Intelligence pioneer
* Jonathan Browning, gunsmith inventor of the best-known Harmonica gun repeating firearm, father of John Browning
* John Browning, gunsmith responsible for many famous and still-used firearms designs and innovations. Widely considered the most prolific gun inventor of all time.
* Paul D. Boyer, 1997 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry
* Nolan Bushnell, inventor of the computer arcade game Pong , and founder of Atari, along with many other companies. Often mistakenly credited with inventing video games (television set top gaming machines), but that was Ralph Baer.
* William Clayton, inventor of a version of the modern odometer
* Melvin A. Cook, chemist[citation needed]
* Henry Eyring, theoretical chemistry
* Philo Farnsworth, television pioneer.
* Harvey Fletcher, physicist, credited with the invention of the hearing aid and the audiometer and erroneously known as "the father of stereophonic sound" twice Director of NASA
* James C. Fletcher Received an undergraduate degree in physics from Columbia University and a doctorate in physics from the California Institute of Technology. He Co-founded the Space Electronics Corporation in 1958. President of the University of Utah in 1964, and named NASA Administrator in 1971, Left NASA in 1977, Became Administrator again in 1986. Fletcher was extremely active as an advisor to key national leaders involved in planning space policy. Among other activities, he served on advisory board involved in developing the Strategic Defense Initiative.
* Tracy Hall, scientist, Dean of BYU, first repeatable process for creating synthetic diamonds
* Marvin Harris - claimed as the inventor of the transistor radio
* George Hill researcher developing processes for liquefying coal for automobile fuel
* Robert Jarvik, doctor, founder of Symbion Inc, co-developer of first artificial heart to be implanted in a human
* Don L. Lind, astronaut, physicist
* Drew Major, software engineer, co-developed the concept of local area networks and the Novell Netware operating system
* Ed Catmull Computer Programmer, Pixar Co-Founder, Disney Animation president, worked with Lucasfilm and Boeng
* Yukihiro Matsumoto, Computer scientist, Inventor of the programming language Ruby
* Joseph F. Merrill, engineer
* Rose Marie Reid, clothing designer, inventor of women's buttonless one-piece bathing suit and a photopermeable swimsuit (for full-body tanning)
* Alvino Rey, musician, father of the pedal steel guitar
* Smith Stevens, lead the development of psychoacoustics
* James LeVoy Sorenson, businessman, philanthropist, inventor of disposable surgical mask and disposable venous catheter
* Thomas Stockham developer of the first practical digital audio recording system
* Robert B. Ingebretsen developer of the first practical digital audio recording system with Thomas Stockham, received an Academy Award in 1999. http://www.sltrib.com/2003/mar/03072003/utah/35959.asp
* Ewart Swinyard co-developer of psychopharmacology, including drugs to suppress epilepsy
* Homer Warner early development of computer sciences for medical diagnosis, particularly for heart ailments. Inventor of Medical Informatics, without which the mapping of the human genome would not have been possible. Pioneer in most other areas of medical computing.
* Lester Wire, inventor of the traffic light

Harold Dean Wilsted (pioneer in jet propulsion, listed in the NACA/NASA archives usually as H Dean or H D Wilsted). David C. Evans Ushered in the modern era of graphical computing by serving concurrently as head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Utah, and as co-founder/ president of Evans & Sutherland Corporation. Evans is responsible for inviting Ivan Sutherland, Tom Stockham, and Erculino Ferretti to help found the computer science department at the University, where notable students of this fledgling department included:Nolan Bushnell,Robert B. Ingebretsen, James H. Clark, Alan Kay, Alan Ashton, Edwin Catmull, John Warnock, Franklin C. Crow, Henri Gouraud, Bui Tuong Phong, and many others. Evans and Sutherland is credited with a long list of inventions, including the first computer graphics chip, and many of the best projection systems for planetariums and digital theaters around the globe. Primarily a government contractor at first, E&S is still best known for their pioneering work in flight simulation systems.

Answer 2

Many reputable scientists belong (or belonged) to one of the mainstream religions, not just Christianity. Most, if not all of these have reconciled their beliefs with the scientific method of learning in their field of endeavor and the findings of that method. Some, of course, are fence-sitters (agnostics), and some are on the other side of the fence entirely (athiests).

If you want a list, go to http://www.adherents.com/people/100_scientists.html

Answer 3

Are, try Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project for one. Was, too many to list. Some are Kepler, Newton, Copernicus.

Answer 4

In the USA, 83% of the population is comprised of professing Christians. Chances are very good that the vast majority of reputable scientists also are Christians.

And the vast majority of Christians, scientists or not, recognize that the evolutionary process is factual, and is part of God's creation... just in case you might of had an "evolution" agenda in mind when you asked this.

Answer 5

Well, I don't know about scientists, but what about doctors? They study science.

Answer 6

I am sure that their are plenty in all fields of science.

The only difference is they know how to separate science from theology, and they do not let their religious views distort their work

Answer 7

There was Galileo, Copernicus, (both either tortured to death or threatened with torture to recant their discoveries). But I'm sure there are plenty of others. They do exist.

Answer 8

Why yes, their are, and they know the difference between science and faith, I'll try to find some (it wil take some time)

Answer 9

You are going to get some crackpot answers and I will be back to tel you how crazy they are.

Answer 10

lol

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