I think the earth is way too complex for our scientists to explain. There is definately an order to the universe, and how did something come from nothing?? That question has plagued me all of my life. But God says in the Bible that we are not to know until His time, & that's where the faith for me comes in. I believe because I also believe Darwin is wrong about evolution. I believe because of certain factors, some things may have " morphed into something a bit different. But man has always looked human, even if neanderthal. There is a God, my heart just tells me there is.
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S. JOCELYN BELL BURNELL
ASTRONOMER AND QUAKER
For some scholars, there are limits to the consilience of research and faith. Bell Burnell, discoverer of the spinning stars called pulsars, is active in the Religious Society of Friends. She wills herself to accept Christian theology, she says, because the absence of belief is too lonely and frightening a prospect. But she keeps her beliefs separate from her astronomy work at England's Open University. "Would I do science differently if I weren't a Quaker?" she asks. "I don't think so."
JOHN POLKINGHORNEPHYSICIST TURNED PRIEST
After a distinguished career in particle physics, Polkinghorne was ordained an Anglican priest in 1982. "For me," he explains, the fundamental component of belief in God "is that there is a mind and a purpose behind the universe." He sees hints of that divine presence in how abstract mathematics can penetrate the universe's secrets, which suggests that a rational mind created the world. As for purpose, he sees it in how nature is fine-tuned to allow life and consciousness to emerge.
MARIAN WESTLEY
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