Who Made Science and Faith Enemies?
“the typical scientist is focused on doing good science. Secular scientists often have no overt agenda against faith and couldn’t care less about creationists’ intramural debates. They simply dismiss Christian views of science, especially if they’ve encountered bad arguments—or bad attitudes—from uninformed believers.” - TGC
As someone who has a degree in Chemistry and was a chemist for a number of years, for the vast majority of science, creationist or evolutionist doesn't really matter. The QA chemist testing drug quality on the assembly line, or the biologist measuring microbe growth does not need to worry about this conflict. If you field of study is origins or cosmology, then you may have some challenges in aligning the field to your worldview. But out of the millions of scientists, that is a small fraction of them. I was a very successful R&D chemist who never had to worry about the quality of my science or any conflict with my practice as a result of my Christian worldview. Even when I was working at FermiLab looking for the Higgs Boson my faith didn't come into conflict. Now while sitting in the cafeteria or talking to some of the other researchers, we could come into some discussions around this, but again it didn't detract from the quality of the work that I was doing. The Higgs Boson (or what we were calling the "God Particle"), has directional significance in cosmology and the beginning and fate of the universe, the science used to discover it did not require me to have a different worldview. The application of the particle has far reaching affects outside of just cosmological interpretations.
I just really struggle with these people that say Christians can't be real scientists. I was just as much a scientist as those around me. Did the same calculations, same math and used the same models as everyone else, with no dilution of my worldview or no dilution of my ability to carry out science.
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