What do u think of the scientists who say that their is proof that there's a powerful being who created earth?

Question

Sorry, I can't really say. I was just at the computer one night when someone else was watching tv and there was some guys on the channel claiming to be scientists. They said that they and others had evidence that there seemed to be a supernatural being that created everything. They said, whether or not it was the god of the bible they were unsure.( I was actually hoping that some of you people on here have heard of guys like this.)

These are the only guys I have ever personally heard talk.But I've heard before of scientists saying that.Maybe I should somehow try to look them up. idk their names or anything though. But tell me I'm not the only one that's heard of these scientists.

Answer 1

I think that they are finally being honest enough when they see the evidence to not care if their peers will look down on them because they don't toe the party line of only accepting materialistic explanations for everything.

Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. For the rest of his credentials, click on the link here: http://www.genome.gov/10000980. Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/collins.html, in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

"I think there's a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

"Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it's rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, 'Faith is actually plausible.' You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone."

Answer 2

I don't know where the scientists been all this time. The proof has been all around us all the time. You breath the air,that you can't see, Who but a powerful being could give us life nourishing air. Every thing around us set in perfect balance. Who but a powerful being , could make night and day and separate the two so perfectly. Look how perfect the Heavens are set in perfect order; this is no random selection. This is something that could only be done be precisely, by God.
Look around you, look at your self, This could not had come about all by it self, come on now be for real.

Answer 3

Could someone show me a few . There are not many who believe in any form of personal god. Most who do believe would be mre like pantheists or deists.

Most of them are really pseudoscientists. The idea of god goes against science. What test or experiment has been verified to show the existence of this god?

The very first post mentions one very famous scientist, and a lot of words to support it, but it is one guy. There will never 100% anything, some will still believe in god, and even when the christians were killing non christians there were still lots of "non believers" out there.

Answer 4

I think that they are accepting their own humanity, and it is a commendable act, indeed. In fact, the acceptance of God's existence is a quite highly developed and sophisticated step in one's philosophical views of the world.

My feelings on the issue can be expressed in the ideas of Michel de Montaigne (a 16th century writer and the Father of essayism). In his "Apology for Raymond Sebond", Montaigne argues scientifically that we, as humans, with brains and minds that are subject to irrational behavior, emotions, chemical imbalances, etc., could not possibly have the ability to comprehend the work of God. Thus, scientists who accept the existence of a greater being are doing the right thing by accepting their own ignorance about that which they cannot understand, and by demonstrating to many that there are things in this vast universe that are simply incomprehensible to our minds in their current states.

Answer 5

Calling a variable God, doesn't make it God.

It is the god of the gaps, which trivializes any concepts of God. If the variable is explained, you wind up having to backtrack and claim you were wrong all along of God was just eliminated from the universe.

Answer 6

If this one scientist believes that god directed evolution on this planet and he sleeps well at night, then let him be.

99% of the scientists who have knowledge of what evolution means, and have knowledge of cosmology, believe in the big bang and do not believe in a personal god.

Answer 7

Ahh yes, the alien theory is an old one. Says extraterresterials came to earth and re-engineered the existing DNA to make a human. What..... you weren't thinking of a GOD were you?

Answer 8

I would say you were joking. Otherwise why would you make such a startling claim without including the name of even one of those scientists.

Answer 9

I think they have the exact same degrees as any other scientist, and I think they went to the same universities as other scientists, and so I am compelled to consider their evidence, as they can't be idiots.
And in fact I have, and their science is sound.

Answer 10

They are saying that based on their emotional reactions to the wonders revealed by their studies.
Purely natural wonders, that they emotionally choose to interpret as a completely unsupported, and ultimately unsupportable, metaphysical framework with "god" at its apex.
I think it must sometimes be difficult for them to keep that sharp and contradictory division between their rationale/educated/human mind, and the lower emotional mind.

Answer 11

He is probably believing tht there is God inspite of the fact that he is an intelligent man but the atheist people do not believe God, yet they are ignorant people who know nothing but hear something to tell to the religions people and even cursing God.
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