2007-09-17 06:28:57 · 22 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I were a car salesman or an electrician or a brain surgeon some of my co-workers would probably be atheists and agnostics too. Why would this have any effect on me, either professionally or spiritually?? Some of my fellow scientists are atheists; some are agnostics; some are Jewish; some are Buddhists; some are Christian. All are scientists, and can work very effectively together, since science, by its very nature, operates irrespective of religious belief. We can all do the same experiments, get the same results, and interpret the results on equal terms.
2007-09-17 06:58:27 · answer #1 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not all evolutionary scientist are atheist or agnostic. Or any scientist for that matter.
There are several liberal arts Christian colleges and universities where there are Christian professors in the Science Department who fully accept and teach evolution.
Many of these schools are otherwise considered extremely conservative. I know because I attended one of them. I think some of those who donate to the school would have a fit if they knew that but it does occur.
***UPDATE***
Jon M, LoL, I would really be interested in your explanation how atheist and agnostics can be your brothers and sister in Christ. Doesn't being in the family of God require faith in God?
2007-09-17 06:37:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does it really matter. I would rather have a relationship with a Christian who recognized that science is fact than a Christian who swears that evolution couldn't of happened because the Bible is conclusive.
The way to really understand anything is to take proven scientific theories and to make them fit into a religion. If you can make the fit into your religious beliefs it makes you religion more scientifically based and therefore it makes more sense ...
Also think of this ... the bible says that men were made in God's image - but when you ask people what God looks like they tell you he isn't human ... so how do we know that God isn't an atom and that humans weren't first atoms ... even more so how do we know that God didn't split in half and thats how humans were created ... directly from God ...
anyways thats just my theory ... gosh I am long winded today
2007-09-17 07:19:56 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Nobody 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What gave you the idea that evolution and christianity are mutually exclusive?
I look at this way: if it is true that the books of the bible are god's word, then when god told moses how he made everything (which became the book of Genesis) he had to dumb things down. Moses and his peers knew nothing of DNA, mutations, genetics, chemistry, etc, etc. How would you tell a person with that level of ignorance how life works?
My own belief is that if there is a good that he designed this biological machine called earth and everything on it according to a genetic scheme that we are only just starting to unravel and understand.
2007-09-17 06:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am christian and I accept that evolution describes the world we live in. Are you trying to say that I should deny reality because an atheist agrees with me on this issue? Sorry, but that argument is not convincing.
Do you like chocolate ice cream? Does your opinion of chocolate ice cream depend on the number of atheists who also like chocolate ice cream?
2007-09-17 06:40:17 · answer #5 · answered by Adoptive Father 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure that I see the connection here. Why would they care?
Why not ask Christian lawyers how they feel working aside Atheist, Jewish, Hindu and Muslin lawyers, and see what reaction that you get.
I don't know about you, but I don't think that I would change my opinion about something just because an atheist, by coincidence, just happens to believe the same thing.
2007-09-17 06:40:16 · answer #6 · answered by Randy G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Atheist/Agnostic with a PhD from Bob Jones? that's no longer real looking Jim, he could have been booted by ability of the top of the 1st semester. yet to respond to your question approximately letting an Atheist tutor my young toddlers relating to the Bible, easily no longer. The Bible calls itself "foolishness" to non-believers. One won't be able to start to are conscious of it without the reader being open to the potential for the main advantageous of the Holy Spirit. So how ought to they probable tutor it?
2016-11-14 16:59:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How does it affect you that some of your "allies in science" and most of the initial supporters of Evolution are Christians?
2007-09-17 06:38:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't. Some of the greatest scientists were Christians. There is no real conflict between religion and science.
2007-09-17 08:18:50 · answer #9 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm....Politics make strange bedfellows?!?
I don't know how it affects me - I'm a Christian, I believe God used evolution as part of His creative process....
....and I also am not wild about a totally literal interpretation of GENESIS nor REVELATION.
I suppose some Christians would call me a HERETIC!
2007-09-17 06:38:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋