Not members of the church of Christian Science, but scientists who are christians.
I have always suspected this, but I bit my tongue for many reasons. One reason is, I don’t have much of a formal education. I can be backed down easily if someone starts spitting some math at me, so I figured I should probably not be throwing accusations at scientist who can obliterate me in a battle and the ref won’t cheat him!
But it has always nagged at me. I know a crooked preacher who used to build with me when we were young about all the ways that christianity doesn’t make sense and clashes with what he had learned about science. Well, now that he is a pastor, I always think of those conversations we had as kids and wonder if he is purposely misleading those poor church goin’ folks (the ways that I know he is crooked have nothing to do with our conversations about god as kids)
Today, I saw this video by mathematician Alexander Tsiaras. I watched the whole thing and was sucked in and razzle dazzled by its beauty. I did flinch when he used the words ‘magic’ and ‘divinity’. I wanted to believe that he didn’t mean it in that way. But I think he did.
I found this response when I was searching online for some other viewpoints about the video. It is on an atheist website, so, biased, naturally. But I do love the way he ‘debunks’ the original commentary of the Tsiaras video.
Overall, I find myself back to where I started, which is, not really believing that Tsiaras finds the human process of conception to birth a divine mystery. I think he knows damn well that it isn’t a ‘godly’ event at all, but he chooses to not say that.
I don’t know why. I have long suspected that some scientists refrain from saying they don’t believe in god because of pressure from family or friends or loved ones. I have read often that Stephen Hawking stayed in the closet for so long because his wife would have been devastated. I think there is major pressure there. I know that in my culture, coming out as “non christian” is a huge stigma. Big. You can say you aren’t religious…you can never go to church…but in my culture, if you say, “I don’t believe in God or Jesus” you are going to be judged very harshly. If this is something that scientists have to contend with also, then I can see why they feel like they have to lie.
I think that most scientists who know their math and physics and chemistry, and so on… and still say they are christian; They might be lying.
I don’t think it is accurate to say that it is my opinion that they are lying. They are either lying for a fact, or not, for a fact. I think it would be accurate for me to say, *I think *they are lying. I may be wrong.