To all on R&S?

Question

With the advancement of science, information and technology how do you explain those with Ph d's in biology, chemistry and genetics who believe in God?

If it is ridiculous and childish to believe in the "Sky-Daddy" then why do the many intelligent people believe in Him?

To Samurai Jack - emotions do not supersede proof. People with science Ph d's have devoted their lives to science. They wouldn't abandon it for a gut feeling.

Tawaen - that wasn't my question. People with science Ph d's believe in God. They have devoted their lives to science. Why are there those who who believe in God amidst all of their education in biology, chemistry and genetics?

darwinsfriend - Common sense does not make one believe or not believe in God. For something to be considered common sense it must be an accepted truth amongst the majority. The existence of God is widely debated.

Dreamstuff entity - We are talking about professors in universities who are on the cutting edge of biology, chemistry and genetics who believe in God. These are very intelligent people who have moved far from tradition because science will make you do that.

Universal pants - Some of these scientists never believed in God but, after studying science became believers in God.

Justsyd - I am not talking about most scientists. I am talking about those who are some of the lead guys in their field in the nation who believe in God.

Inbetween - Samething I said to darwinsfriend.

Tigris - We are talking about leading professors at state universities that would look stupid to believe in God. Yet, have found evidence in their studies in science for the existence of God.

Mike - I am a born again believer. This question was to get educated responses from both sides of the spectrum of beliefs.

Gorgeoustx3 - I have a book called in six days which documents over 50 scientists who believe that the universe was created in 6 literal days.

Printninja - What fear of the unknown? A scientist should know the origins of everything in this day and age. Unless you are implying that there is uncertainty in science and that atheism is a belief by faith.

Suspendor of disbelief - I am a born again believer.

Answer 1

Doctors & nurses have seen irrefutable evidence of life
after death. I have family within the professions and
they don't doubt that God exists. Especially, anyone
who has worked around the dying. They, too often, see
loved ones who have passed before them, and they
speak with them. This is very common. The inward man
never dies, but returns to God, who gave it. Mark 12:26-27,
Jesus says that God told Moses, "I AM the God of Abraham,
and he God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the
God of the dead, but the God of the LIVING". At the time
God told this to Moses, Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob's flesh
had been dead for a long time, but God was speaking of
their inward/spiritual man, which rises out of the dust of
this body and returns to God at the instant of the flesh's
death.

Jesus promised that those who believe in him "shall NEVER
DIE". It is our inward/spiritual man that believes, and our
flesh man cannot know the things of God (1Cor 2:9-14).
Romans 9:8, "...They which are the children OF THE FLESH,
these are not the children OF GOD: but the children of the
promise are counted for the seed". That promise is Christ
in you, the hope of glory.

This flesh man will not be made perfect until our Lord returns
for his reward, the adoption of the body. Our inward man
was never in need of salvation.

Answer 2

It's fine if they believe in God, as long as they keep it out of science. If someone wants to believe that "God" was the one who made all the rules necessary for everything to happen the way it did, then that's fine. What we have a problem with is when people try to deny legitimate science in favor of stories that were written over 2000 years ago by uneducated middle-eastern sheep herders. Then there's also those that will twist the facts, or LIE about them altogether, because the facts don't fit in with their religion.
Science isn't always going to tell people what they WANT to hear. There is no "freedom of thought" in science. Science is a dictatorship. Anyone that wants to BE a scientist needs to be prepared to accept that, because scientific facts are not going to bend to meet the Bible. As long as someone can take the facts at face value, and look at the evidence objectively to see what the evidence tells them, and comes up with results appropriately BASED on that evidence, then that's good. But when people start to take scientific evidence, and try to make it fit into their pre-conceived ideas of what the results "should" be, then it's no longer science.

Answer 3

How do I explain believer's who are phd's in biology, chemistry and genetics? Because their science has proved to them that there is order, purpose, and outcome made only by a Supreme Being. An amoeba cannot develop into a higher complex being, the big bang would not settle into a controlled, neat clean globe that develops life on it's own. Science and history have proven and go hand in hand with the Bible which is God's word.
God is the word and the word is God.

Answer 4

You have to accept that other people -- some more intelligent than you, some less intelligent than you -- look at the world and come to a different conclusion.

Proof means different things to different people. Many educated people admit to experiencing things that seem to occur and exist outside of scientific explanation.

I don't understand why we all fight so hard to be "right" in the question of whether or not God exists.

Answer 5

a) majority vote does not necessarily mean the most accurate view is represented (if you polled some time in the middle ages you would get the majority view that the sun rotates around the earth).
b) there is no problem to be religious and a scientist as long as you are not a bible literalist.
c) it has been shown over and over that intelligence in one field does not guard a person from buying snakeoil in another field.

Answer 6

It is irrational to expect physical or natural 'proof' of a supernatural Being. The only way intelligent people can believe in God is to develop a PERSONAL relationship with him. Unfortunately for atheists, that is non-transferable.

Proof is one thing. Evidence is another. There is PLENTY of evidence in the TRUE Laws of Statistics and Thermodynamics, IF you are willing to LOOK with an unbiased eye.

Answer 7

Because their "Faith" blinds them to the real truth. I don't know how a geologist could be a christian who thinks the world is 6,000 years old when the rocks he finds prove otherwise. That seems like a conflict of interest to me. Statistically, people that do believe in some type of god or higher being, have lower IQ's than those who don't.. That is scary to me when something like 90% of the world believes in some sort of god so, according to the math, our world is being run by the dumber of our species.

Answer 8

Suspension of disbelief?

Well, actually, I believe in God, but I also believe God to be a physical thing that we cannot yet detect. I tend to think of God as the energy that makes up subatomic particles. But I admit I don't know a damned thing. It just makes sense tome, even thought there isn't an iota of proof for it.

Answer 9

A favorite saying of a hero of mine goes something like this:
People who educate themselves without God are merely clever devils...
Personally, the greater my knowledge of the sciences becomes, the greater my admiration and belief in God.

Answer 10

1. God is logical endlessly. To a point; the PhD's are logical in this life.
2. There are 'tests' for Christians. Perhaps they have passed at least some of those tests presently.