Why do christians claim scientists believe in god?

Question

There are many christians claiming that notable secular scientists believed in god. For example they claim Einstein was monotheist when he was really a pandeist(meaning he believed in impersonal force not a deity who can think). They also claim Voltaire was a christian when he was really a deist(again distrusted the bible). Why do they claim these scientists were christians or theistic when they weren't?

Answer 1

er.. well im a Christian and i dont claim any of that lol. To be honest i know what i believe is right..i dont need scientists to say that they believe it too.  

Answer 2

Why do people keep trying to spread this c**p.

"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist."  Albert Einstein.  Brian, op. cit. p. 186.

PS: The Catholic Church itself was the primary PUBLISHER of Galileo's theories.  Duh?

Answer 3

Everyone believes in God, some people choose to deny him.

Rom 1:18   But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who push the truth away from themselves.

Rom 1:19   For the truth about God is known to them instinctively. God has put this knowledge in their hearts.  

Rom 1:20   From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.  

Rom 1:21   Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused.  

Rom 1:22   Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.  

Answer 4

I don't know why anyone would claim that a "secular" scientist believed in God since that seems to be a contradiction of terms. However, many reputable scientists do believe in God. Here's a link along with the first entry to demonstrate my point.

http://www.tektonics.org/scim/sciencemon...

Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function.  His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. For the rest of his credentials, click on the link here: http://www.genome.gov/10000980.   Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethic... in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

"I think there's a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

"Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it's rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, 'Faith is actually plausible.' You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone."

Scientists of the Christian Faith -- Alphabetical Index

Answer 5

The only scientist I know of who believed in God was Isaac Newton. He said something like "We have discovered what sets the planets in motion, but we have not discovered why they were first set in motion".

Other than, I don't really associate scientists with Christianity because I have homework to do.

Answer 6

God created scientists and science......

Answer 7

Science has shown atheists have a higher intelligence than people with a strong religious faith. The difference is 5.8 points according to findings in developmental psychology!!!    

More members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average.

Only 7 percent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God. Whilst only 3.3 percent believed in God in the UK’s Royal Society.

Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQ’s tend not to believe in God."

Evolution in action with Christians getting left behind like the monkeys and apes before them!!!

Answer 8

Voltaire was not a scientist.

Einstein.

Answer 9

In their funnier moments they claim Galileo Galilei as one of their own too!  Despite having tortured him and putting himunder house arrest until his death, simply because he was an advocate of heliocentricity.

Thumbs down for the truth eh?

Answer 10

Some only just pretended to be Christians and lived in a closet.

Answer 11

Why do atheists claim that Abraham Lincoln and Galileo were atheists? You're talking about very large segments of the population. There are 2,000,000,000 Christians on earth - you can find all kinds of bizarre claims in a population of that size.  

PS - Galileo wasn't tortured or placed under house arrest for advocating heliocentricity. And he was a Christian, despite what the Inquisition did to him.

Answer 12

Because there are many learned people who are Christians, and among them are some scientists. This isn't a Christian claim. This is a scientist's claim.

Do you consider doctors to be scientists of a sort? I can't tell you how many doctors believe in God, and pray each day, often with families. That's not a claim either. It comes from the doctors who are believers.

Would you let us know, please, who "they" are? Who are these people who are making false accusations about scientists? You refer to this "they" group, like we should already know who you are talking about. Give us more. We need to learn!  

Answer 13

...or when they say the Founding Fathers of the greatest country on the planet (USA!!!!) say they were devout christians and made this nation under the holy BIBLE.

s***w THAT!!!!!

Answer 14

Only a tiny percentage of scientists believe in god. This because the non existence of god can not be 'scientifically' proven but it can be logically.

Answer 15

They lie to make themselves look more credible.

Answer 16

Because some scientist do believe in God. I would agree that the majority are agnostics. But this does not mean that Christian scientist do not exist nor that they have not made amazing scientific breakthrews and discoveries... I will list just a few of those Christian scientist along with their achievments below.. And this is only some of them I can give you more if you like...

John Philoponus late 6th Century Aristotle's early Christian critic

Hugh of St. Victor c. 1096-1141 theologian of science

Robert Grosseteste c. 1168-1253 reform-minded bishop-scientist

Roger Bacon c. 1220-1292 Doctor Mirabiles

Dietrich von Frieberg c. 1250-c. 1310 the priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow

Thomas Bradwardine c. 1290-1349 student of motion

Nicole Oresme c. 1320-1382 inventor of scientific graphic techniques

Nicholas of Cusa 1401-1464 grappler with infinity

Georgias Agricola 1495-1555 founder of metallurgy

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630 discoverer of the laws of planetary motion

Johannes Baptista van Helmont 1579-1644 founder of pneumatic chemistry and chemical physiology

Francesco Maria Grimaldi 1618-1663 discoverer of the diffraction of light Catholic

Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 mathematical prodigy and universal genius

Robert Boyle 1627-1691 founder of modern chemistry

John Ray 1627-1705 cataloger of British flora and fauna Calvinist (denomination?)

Isaac Barrow 1630-1677 Newton's teacher

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723 discoverer of bacteria

Niels Seno 1638-1686 founder of geology

James Bradley 1693-1762 discoverer of the aberration of starlight

Ewald Georg von Kleist c. 1700-1748 inventor of the Leyden jar

Carolus Linnaeus 1707-1778 classifer of all living things

Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 the prolific mathematician

John Dalton 1766-1844 founder of modern atomic theory

Thomas Young 1773-1829 first to conduct a double-slit experiment with light

David Brewster 1781-1868 researcher of polarized light

William Buckland 1784-1856 geologist of the Noahic flood

Adem Sedgwick 1785-1873 geologist of the Cambrian

Augustin-Jean Fresnel 1788-1827 the physicist of light waves

Augustin Louis Cauchy 1789-1857 soulwinning mathematician

Michael Faraday 1791-1867 giant of electrical research

John Frederick William Herschel 1792-1871 cataloger of the Southern skies

Matthew Fontaine Maury 1806-1873 pathfinder of the seas

Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888 popular naturalist

Asa Gray 1810-1888 influential botanist

James Dwight Dana 1813-1895 systematizer of minerology

George Boole 1815-1864 discoverer of pure mathematics

James Prescott Joule 1818-1889 originator of Joule's Law

John Couch Adams 1819-1892 codiscoverer of Neptune

George Gabriel Stokes 1819-1903 theorist of fluorescence

Gregor Mendel 1822-1884 pioneer in genetics

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin 1824-1907 physicist of thermodynammics

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann 1829-1907 the non-Euclidean geometer behind relativity theory

James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879 father of modern physics

Edward William Morley 1838-1923 Michelson's partner in measuring the speed of light

Pierre-Maurice-Marie Duhem 1861-1923 the physicist who recovered the science of the Middle Ages

Georges Lemaitre 1894-1966 the prist who showed us the universe is expanding

George Washington Carver c. 1864-1943 pioneer in chemurgy

Arthur Stanley Eddington 1882-1944 the astronomer who ruled stellar theory