Scientist: From hard-core atheist to evangelical Christian.

By Spencer D Gear PhD

It is a long time since I met an evolutionist who moved from being a passionate atheist to an evangelical Christian while retaining his evolutionary ideology.

Evolutionary biology

Darwin's finches by Gould.jpgDarwin’s finches by John Gould (image courtesy Wikipedia)

I met such a person online today: Dr Sy Garte (pron. Gart) is a PhD biochemist and for 30 years a hard-core atheist. He became a Christian and has stated on Twitter. I was introduced to him through a Google search that located these statements.

It’s a mistake to conflate [i.e. merge] atheism with science. Nobody uses God to answer scientific questions about the world of nature. Christians (like me) use science to answer scientific questions. We turn to our faith to answer the “why” questions that science is not built to address.[1]

The basics of the scientific materialistic world view

clip_image002Sy Garte, Ph.D, Biochemistry. Biologist.

(photo courtesy Twitter Sy Garte‏ @sygarte)[2]
An interview with Sy is available on YouTube about ‘Evolution and Reasons to Believe in God‘.
He also belongs to an organisation BioLogos.
See also Science Meets Faith.

Notes


[1] 5:55AM, 31 Jul 2019. Available at: https://twitter.com/sygarte/status/1156549018568273921 (Accessed 23 August 2019).

[2] https://twitter.com/sygarte

Copyright © 2021 Spencer D. Gear. This document last updated at Date: 08 October 2021.

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