I couldn’t find a way to reblog the following, it’s from a young lady who appears to want to be anonymous, so I will respect that and will at least post the link to where the following came from: https://steagarden.wordpress.com/
This is a subject I have other material that I am going to be blogging on, this is information I never saw before, in regards to scientists who are sincere Trinitarian Christian believers. The world would have us believe that science and Christian faith are diametrically opposed. That there is the natural and the supernatural and never the twain shall meet. That of course is nonsense, let’s just start with the fact that creation came into being as a result of the supernatural (that is God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit). To deny that is simply irrational and deny the reality around us. The faith system called scientism (believes that everything is about natural law and there is no other law, everything is subject to scientific examination and if it’s not amenable to that, well it doesn’t exist.) That folks is irrational, and this from people who are claiming to be very rational????
Science exists because God created it. For millennium scientists studied nature with the supposition that what they were studying was put there by God. Well-rounded, intelligent people understand that people certainly need to be knowledgeable about the science of the world, it is part of God’s creation. At the same time understanding that man is far more than just the material, there is a spiritual side to man that is unique and how God made us. To deny that is not some kind of intellectual superiority! It’s living in a fantasy world of denial and a gross disregard of the facts.
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1200s-1400s
Alright, first post naming Christian scientists.
Robert Grosseteste: 1175-1253
Father of the Scientific Method. (Pretty important, no?)
Roger Bacon: (got to love that name) 1214-1292
Loved to study nature through the use of empirical methods. He’s often included in a brief list of observers who used the modern scientific method for observations and was often considered a radical by religious authorities of his time because he would question everything. Source: http://www.visionlaunch.com/roger-bacon-inventions-and-accomplishments/
Thomas Bradwardine: 1290-1349
Reformer who examined Aristotle’s ideas critically.
I do want to say one thing… If the universe was created by an all powerful being who was a master designer, we would expect to see order, similar design between species, laws that don’t change, and complex systems. I doubt that anyone will disagree with me on the fact that that is what we see through our microscopes! But if the universe really did evolve from nothing, then why bother with science? The laws that we hold so firmly (i.e. 1st and 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) will just change in the next couple hundred years, right? If there is no stability to this world, then things cannot be tested over and over again, because things will have changed. That’s not scientific! Just a thought.
-Squid
Christians Can Be Scientists?
In his recent debate against Ken Ham, Bill Nye (the Science Guy) cautioned parents not to teach their children creationism because we need scientists, engineers, doctors, etc. in the future. I think he needs to learn who even paved the way for where the scientific community is right now… Christian scientists! They all got into science for the sake of studying God’s creation! So, to educate him, (sorry, couldn’t help throwing that in) I am going to do a series of posts on Christian scientists throughout the centuries. I’m going to try to cover one time period per day for about 4-5 days I think. Keep posted (no pun intended) for the first post!
-Squid
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