There are a number of prominent biologists who are devoted Christians. Francis Collins is just one of many, many examples. You choose to pick some who are atheists. A straw man argument isn’t pursuasive. I’m not how doing how doing so advances your implicit argument that no one who believes in evolution (that is, just about every Ph.D. biologist I know) can also be a Christian. The Church says that you can be a Christian and accept evolutionary biology. You disagree. I’ll go with the teaching of the Church, thank you very much.
Adowcay, I append below the list of scientists who accept religion and theologians who accept evolution, from among the list of fellows of the ISSR, the prestigious International Society for Science and Religion. I include the list down to the letter “H”; for the complete list see
http://www.issr.org.uk/issr-members.asp:
Dr. Denis Alexander,
Director of the Faraday Institute for Science & Religion, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and Senior Affiliated Scientist at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge,
Cambridge University and The Babraham Institute, UK.
Dr. Munawar Anees,
President,
KnowSys, USA.
Dr. Anindita Balslev,
Philosopher and organiser, cross cultural conversation,
Denmark/India.
Professor Ian G. Barbour,
Professor of Physics and Professor of Religion (Emeritus),
Carleton College, USA.
Professor Henk Barendregt,
Professor of Foundations of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Professor John Barrow,
Professor of Mathematical Sciences,
Cambridge University, UK.
Professor David J. Bartholomew,
Emeritus Professor of Statistics,
London School of Economics, UK.
Professor Peter Berger,
Professor of Sociology and Theology, College of Arts and Sciences and School of Theology,
Boston University, USA.
Professor Robert J. (Sam) Berry,
Professor of Genetics Emeritus,
University College London, UK.
Revd. Prof. John Bowker,
Formerly Professor of Religious Studies, University of Lancaster, Dean and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Gresham Professor of Divinity, Gresham College, London.
Professor John Hedley Brooke,
Andreas Idreos Professor Emeritus of Science & Religion, and Emeritus Fellow Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. Also Honorary Professor of the History of Science, Lancaster University,
Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, UK.
Dr. Warren S. Brown,
Professor of Psychology and Director of the Travis Research Institute,
Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA.
Professor John A. Bryant,
Professor Emeritus of Cell and Molecular Biology,
University of Exeter, UK.
Revd. Prof. Frank Budenholzer,
Professor of Chemistry,
Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
Professor Geoffrey Cantor,
Professor (Emeritus) of the History of Science,
University of Leeds, UK.
Professor Philip Clayton,
Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Religion; Ingraham Professor of Theology,
Claremont Graduate University; Claremont School of Theology, USA.
Professor Ronald Cole-Turner,
H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology and Ethics,
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, USA.
Dr. Francis S. Collins,
Director,
National Human Genome Research Institute, USA.
Professor Simon Conway Morris,
Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology,
University of Cambridge, UK.
Revd. Dr. Christopher Corbally,
Vice Director,
Vatican Observatory, USA.
Professor Ramanath Cowsik,
Professor of Physics & Director, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences,
Washington University, USA.
Professor George Coyne,
Director Emeritus, Vatican Observatory; Adjunct Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
Vatican Observatory; University of Arizona, USA.
Professor Pranab Kumar Das II,
Chair and Professor of Physics,
Elon University, USA.
Professor Paul Davies,
Director of Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Sciences,
Arizona State University, USA.
Professor Celia E. Deane-Drummond,
Professor and Director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences,
University College Chester, UK.
Professor Dr. Willem B. Drees,
Dean & Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics,
Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Revd. Dr. Denis Edwards,
Senior Lecturer in Theology,
Flinders University, Australia.
Dr. Noah Efron,
Chair, Graduate Program in Science, Technology & Society (also, President, Israeli Society for History & Philosophy of Science),
Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Professor George Ellis,
Professor Emeritus and Research Associate,
University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr. Carl Feit,
Dr Joseph and Rachel Ades Chair in Health Sciences,
Yeshiva University, USA.
Professor Menachem Fisch,
Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor of History and Philosophy of Science & Chair of the Gradaute School of Philosophy,
Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Professor Lodovico Galleni,
Professor of General Zoology and of Environmental Ethics,
University of Pisa, Italy.
Professor Owen Gingerich,
Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and History of Science,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA.
Professor Mehdi Golshani,
Professor of Physics,
Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
Professor Ulf Görman,
Professor, Ethics,
Lund University, Sweden.
Revd. Prof. Niels Gregersen,
Professor of Systematic Theology,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Professor Frederick Gregory,
Professor of History of Science,
University of Florida, USA.
Dr. Bruno Guiderdoni,
Director of Research,
Paris Institute of Astrophysics, France.
Professor Dr. S. Nomanul Haq,
Visiting Faculty at the rank of Associate Professor,
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan/University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Professor Peter Harrison,
Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion,
University of Oxford, UK.
Professor John F. Haught,
Distinguished Research Professor,
Georgetown University, USA.
Professor Sir Brian Heap,
Research Associate,
Von Hugel Institute, UK.
Revd. Prof. Philip Hefner,
Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus,
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, USA.
Revd. Prof. Michael Heller,
Professor, Faculty of Philosophy,
Pontifical Academy of Theology, Cracow, Poland.
Professor Noreen Herzfeld,
Professor of Theology and Computer Science,
St. John’s University, USA.
Dr. Peter M. J. Hess,
Faith Project Director,
National Center for Science Education (NCSE), USA; also Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, California, USA.
Professor Martinez (Marty) Hewlett,
Professor Emeritus, Biology
University of Arizona, USA.
Sir John Houghton,
Retired,
President, John Ray Initiative; Honorary Scientist, Hadley Centre, UK Meteorological Office, UK.
Professor Nancy R. Howell,
Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion,
Saint Paul School of Theology, USA.
