• FlagstaffOP
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    19 hours ago

    I come from a family of scientists who are also Christian

    Interesting, I’d be curious to learn more about this if you’re willing to share.

    at least they know the value of shutting up!

    Ha! That’s true, I actually did quite like Quakers based on the rare run-ins I had with them in the distant past…

    • 𝕮𝕬𝕭𝕭𝕬𝕲𝕰@feddit.uk
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      4 hours ago

      I’d be curious to learn more about this if you’re willing to share.

      What aspects are interesting to you particularly? I’d be happy to give you an insight!

      Both my parents are physicists (my dad got his PhD, my mother taught Physics her whole working life) and my grandfathers (also practicing Christians) were both scientists; my paternal grandfather was a research scientist working with radio telescopes who had some pretty hot takes on life.

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      18 hours ago

      I’m not the person you asked, but I have chemists in my family who are also Christians, and it comes down to not taking the Bible literally. That’s mostly where Christians get in trouble, anyway, since it’s not even historically accurate much less scientific. Then you insert God into a position of being the architect of life’s mysteries, and science is an endeavor to comprehend the complexities of the universe Yahweh created. To uncover the mysteries is to seek God.

      I don’t really find that logic personally compelling as a reason to believe, but that’s how they’ve kind of “squared that circle” so to speak.