One of the things I hear quite often in conversations concerning origins is that “all real scientists have given up belief in God.” For a time, I wondered if that were true. I wondered how science and faith could ever be compatible. But then I was introduced to a brilliant scientist who worked with a creation organization and realized that faith and science are not incompatible. In fact, they dovetail together almost perfectly. Meeting that scientist occurred almost twenty years ago, and since then, I’ve been exposed to dozens of people who work in various areas of science who have a tremendous faith in God. I’ve found hundreds of resources that reinforce that. And I’ve become closely affiliated with at least tow different organizations that attempt to teach the historicity and validity of Genesis as fact.

One of those organizations is Master Books. I have several of their books on my shelves, and am always excited to receive another. And I was pretty excited when I opened the mail and saw On The Seventh Day, edited by John F. Ashton, PhD. Aston has compiled short testimonies from over forty different scientists describing why they believe in God.

Certainly, these men and women go against the flow, at least the flow as described by the popular media and the atheistic element in the science community. However, I’m beginning to suspect that those elements might actually be in the minority, or at least much less of a majority than they seem to present. I suspect that there are multitudes more in the scientific community who keep their lives focused on the Creator as they strive to understand his creation.

Aston has organized more than forty short chapters from believing scientists from all over the world. These scientists come from all sorts of fields, including physics, aerospace engineering, psychology, biology, chemistry, linguistics, information science, math, medicine and more. They come from all over the world, from places such as Australia, Europe, the UK, America, and others. The people and places, and the sciences they represent are as varied as can be, yet all are believers in the same Creator God.

Ashton has divided On The Seventh Day into two different categories.

The first is Reason and Faith. In this section, Ashton has placed the essays that focus on giving the reasons the authors believe in God. These chapters tell of the thought process the authors went through, discovering the overwhelming design by a Creator in their fields. These chapters describe the “why” behind these authors’ decisions to follow God.

The second section is Faith and Experience. In this section, Ashton collected the essays that deal more with a personal experience based upon the author’s faith. This section is full of stories of men and women seeing God act in their day to day lives, from resolving job situations to financial crises to rescuing one even from the occult and satanic activity.

To be honest, this wasn’t really what I expected On The Seventh Day to be. I wasn’t familiar with the book, and wasn’t sure what it was like. But I was highly encouraged by reading many of these stories. I sat down and read it straight through in a couple of evenings. I’m not sure that’s the best method though. I would recommend that you read no more than a chapter or two each day, maybe as devotional material, or along with your normal daily devotional reading. I think you’ll be greatly encouraged as well.

Do you know of any scientists who are firm believers in God, despite the “trend” among scientists to not believe? You can leave your thoughts in the comments section below.

If you are interested in reading On The Seventh Day: Forty Scientists And Academics Explain Why They Believe In God, edited by John F. Ashton, PhD, you can purchase it at Amazon.com in print or for Kindle, or directly from Master Books.

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