Science leads us to God?

[RAR]

I spent a number of difficult years (grad school) at a state university and found that many in academia seemed to all be atheists or Darwinists. My experience with the sciences was different. It seems in the world that science and religion often seem to be at odds, but in my experience the more I learned the more I felt God simply must exist. I’m posting this thread in response to the interesting conversations I’ve read about the philosophical question of ensoulment and the odd case of human chimeras, among other things.

My schooling took me to the level of protein interactions, DNA regulation, and chemical signalling. Where some see inevitable molecular progression to ordered systems and evolutionary footprints, I see CS Lewis’ signposts and the hand of God.

What do you think? Does education reveal God’s glory or does it lead you away from Him?

RAR

 

[Plusiplus]

Science can by definition not prove or disprove god.

 

[Namesake]

Science can by definition not prove or disprove god.

That isn’t the point. Having progressed through the post doc level in a state institution and having taught evolution, I can say with some reasonable authority that higher education in sciences can very well lead to a more full appreciation that a higher power runs this show.

Science not only cannot prove God, it isn’t even remotely interested in God. Science is objective and totally rational. Religion is neither, nor should it be.

 

[fbl9]

That isn’t the point. Having progressed through the post doc level in a state institution and having taught evolution, I can say with some reasonable authority that higher education in sciences can very well lead to a more full appreciation that a higher power runs this show.

that is so very true.not one,or group of scientists, can take the raw building blocks of the universe mix them together and have any life. life has it’s own source the LIVING GOD

 

[Plusiplus]

That isn’t the point. Having progressed through the post doc level in a state institution and having taught evolution, I can say with some reasonable authority that higher education in sciences can very well lead to a more full appreciation that a higher power runs this show.

It might, but it’s still clear that education (yes, science education too) correlates negatively with religious belief. A highly educated person tends to be less religious and vice versa.

that is so very true.not one,or group of scientists, can take the raw building blocks of the universe mix them together and have any life. life has it’s own source the LIVING GOD

Just because it hasn’t been done doesn’t mean it can’t be done. So, what would happen in your world if in fact scientists created life from non-life?

 

[Namesake]

A highly educated person tends to be less religious and vice versa.

So the less educated are more religious? Whata can of worms that opens.

 

[Plusiplus]

So the less educated are more religious? Whata can of worms that opens.

Yes, but please don’t shoot the messenger.

 

[fbl9]

Just because it hasn’t been done doesn’t mean it can’t be done. So, what would happen in your world if in fact scientists created life from non-life?..life from non life what???my 11 yr old can even figure out non life has no dna to get life from.

 

[RAR]

It might, but it’s still clear that education (yes, science education too) correlates negatively with religious belief. A highly educated person tends to be less religious and vice versa.

Just because it hasn’t been done doesn’t mean it can’t be done. So, what would happen in your world if in fact scientists created life from non-life?

I know of a theory that life began with an electrical storm and what they call the “primordial soup.” In the midst of this storm, RNA was “created” and over millenia progressed to RNA viruses, to DNA viruses, to bacteria and protozoa to the eukaryotic fungi and finally to complex organisms. I’ve read that on a very small level these conditions were repeated and RNA, in fact, did result.

This is interesting though because science disputes whether viruses are indeed even living organisms. They don’t fit all the criteria of living beings.

But again, the more science progresses the more I see God’s hand. Afterall, didn’t God give us science and reason to learn about his creation? The greatest scientists of their day were often clergymen… today’s science seems to forget that. I think it does an injustice to those men whose shoulders they stand upon.

RAR