Can a scientist believe in God

Once again some debates about science, beginning of the universe, evolution and who can believe in what, is being going on in several heated debates.

A composed satellite photograph of North America in orthographic projection. The observer is centered at (40° N, 95° W), at Moon distance above the Earth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Lots of North Americans seem to have a lot of difficulties with the way people want to look at the creation. For many of them it seems impossible to take the creation as having taken part in different phases others than a day of 24 hours. They seem to forget that God has a total different measuring than our present time system.

In the United States of America many science professors say they do not think it is possible that a scientist believes in God. In other countries we can find scientist who were atheist but by their scientific findings  and getting to see what was written in the Bible did come to the Christian Faith.

Billy Graham, American religious figure. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Billy Graham in care of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association wrote about this question:

Over the years I’ve met many outstanding scientists who not only believed in God, but were also dedicated followers of Christ. Many, in fact, told me that they’d first become believers because of their scientific studies.

Why was this? One reason, they said, was because they came to see that it was more logical to believe in God than not believe in Him. No matter where you look — through the most powerful telescope or the strongest microscope — the complexity and the beauty of the universe point to an all-powerful Creator. In other words, believing that the universe “just happened” takes far more faith than believing in God! The Bible says,

“Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made” (Romans 1:20).

But my scientist friends also realized that science has its limits. Science can describe what the world is like, but it can’t answer the questions of why we’re here or where we’re going when we die. Only God can give us the answer to these spiritual questions, and He has answered them through Jesus Christ.

Don’t be put off by the unbelief of others. Instead, turn to Jesus Christ and open your heart and mind to His truth as it is revealed in the Bible.

…. Only in Christ, the Bible says,

“are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3).

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Additional literature:

1. The mythical conflict of science and Scripture (1)
2. The mythical conflict of science and Scripture (2)
3. Science and the Bible—Do They Really Contradict Each Other?
4. Are people allowed to have doubts
5. Science, scepticism, doubts and beliefs
6. Science, belief, denial and visibility 1
7. Science, belief, denial and visibility 2
8. Ian Barbour connecting science and religion
9. Are Science and the Bible Compatible?
10. Reconciling Science and Religion
11. Science and God’s existence
12. People Seeking for God 1 Looking for answers
13. Challenging claim 2 Inspired by God 1 Simple words
14. Challenging claim 4 Inspired by God 3 Self-consistent Word of God
15. Interpretation of archaeological data
16. Bible and Science: Scientific Facts and Theories
17. Bible and Science (2): In the Beginning
18. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
19. Nothingness
20. “Before” and “after” the Big Bang
21. Cosmogony
22. Is it “Wrong” to Believe that the Earth is a Sphere?
23. A viewpoint on creation
24. Suboptimal design and special creation
25. Debating Darwin
26. Living on the Edge
27. Genesis Among the Creation Myths
28. Other stories about the beginning of times
29. Creation Creator and Creation
30. Background to look at things
31. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
32. God, the Father, the Sole Creator of Heaven and Earth
33. Something from nothing
34. Means of creations
35. Genesis 1 story does not take away an evolution
36. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods
37. The very very beginning 2 The Word and words
38. How are we sure God exists?
39. Coming to the creation of human beings in the image of God
40. Cosmos creator and human destiny
41. From waste and void coming into being by God’s Word
42. How Many Persons Created the Heavens and the Earth?
43. Genesis 1:26 God said “Let us make”
44. Sayings around God
45. Attributes to God
46. Experiencing God
47. Incomplete without the mind of God
48. Understanding God’s Word through His Creation -2
49. A look at evolution from a Christadelphian perspective
50. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 1
51. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 2
52. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 3
53. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 4
54. A dialogue about the earth moving and spinning around the sun
55. Is it “Wrong” to Believe that the Earth is a Sphere? Inclusive the first generation of Christadelphians their views
56. Ignorance of Today’s Youth (and Adults)
57. Old Earth creationists and other conservative Christians denying any evolution
58. Without God no purpose, no goal, no hope
59. The professor, God, Faith and the student
60. Book Review: Ann Gauger, Douglas Axe & Casey Luskin, Science & Human Origins. Seattle: Discovery Institute Press, 2012.124pp.
61. An anarchistic reading of the Bible—(1) Approaching the Bible
62. An anarchistic reading of the Bible (2)—Creation and what follows

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