Scientists Discuss Ways To Integrate Science with Christianity

Abstract

Whenever the word Christianity turns up in the scientific press, people usually get set for another neck-reddening round of the creationism debate. What many scientists may not realize, however, is that there is a large number of scientists who are also Christians who regard the creationism debate as irrelevant to science policy at its essence: the deeper humanization of science, technology, and society. Their basic tenet is that faith needs science, and science—if it is to be applied with truly humanistic policies—needs a grounding in the western religious heritage. And so, a number of those scientists have organized to achieve what they feel is a needed synthesis so that the heritage in a technological society isn't totally secularized around merely Greek ideals. Their intellectual tools are chiefly philosophical, and their faith is not in humanism per se but in a humanism grounded in belief in Jesus Christ, sin, and redemption—something hard for the bulk ...