Yep! I have no problem with a scientist believing in a god or gods.
I always remember my homeroom teacher, who was also our religious studies teacher, talking about Genesis. He asked people about the whole seven days thing, and then made the point that how would you explain to people from that ancient times how a planet formed?
Are they really going to be able to comprehend gravity and accretion of matter, followed by chemical soups and evolution? No. So you tell them what they can cope with, that God made the whole thing in a week. He then said, that maybe God did make everything in seven days, but what is God's timescale compared to ours? Why shouldn't one of God's days be a billion years of our time?
And why would God go to all to all the trouble of creating all the natural laws of a complex self-sustaining system, and then break them all the bloody time? Surely if he's infallible, he could create a good self-sustaining system that wouldn't need continual tweaking.
I don't believe in God, but these arguments are reasonable to me when it comes to marrying the concepts of God and science.
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Date: 2009-04-29 04:03 am (UTC)I always remember my homeroom teacher, who was also our religious studies teacher, talking about Genesis. He asked people about the whole seven days thing, and then made the point that how would you explain to people from that ancient times how a planet formed?
Are they really going to be able to comprehend gravity and accretion of matter, followed by chemical soups and evolution? No. So you tell them what they can cope with, that God made the whole thing in a week. He then said, that maybe God did make everything in seven days, but what is God's timescale compared to ours? Why shouldn't one of God's days be a billion years of our time?
And why would God go to all to all the trouble of creating all the natural laws of a complex self-sustaining system, and then break them all the bloody time? Surely if he's infallible, he could create a good self-sustaining system that wouldn't need continual tweaking.
I don't believe in God, but these arguments are reasonable to me when it comes to marrying the concepts of God and science.