Faith Motors

Campus Report ^ | October 29, 2008 | Bethany Stotts

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Faith Motors

by: Bethany Stotts, October 29, 2008

What do the body’s molecular structure and car engines have in common? Both are clearly made by someone, argued biochemist Dr. Fazale Rana at a recent Reasons to Believe (RTB) conference, titled “What Darwin Didn’t Know.” The organization’s stated purpose for the Washington, D.C. conference was to demonstrate that if Charles Darwin were living in the modern era, his Origins of Species might have concluded something quite different.

The son of a Muslim professor at North Dakota State University and a Catholic science and math teacher, Dr. Rana described what it was like to learn biochemistry in the university setting:

When I went to college, I found myself in a very secular environment... I fell in love with biochemistry. That’s what I wanted to do with my life was become a biochemist, so you can tell right away what kind of nerd I must have been...And in the professors I admired the most were my biology and chemistry professors. Many of them were staunch atheists and some of them were actually anti-Christian in [their] perspective. I felt comfortable in that environment and they taught me how to accept uncritically the idea that life’s origin of life’s history was the work of evolutionary processes. I felt satisfied with that explanation.

Dr. Fazale later became a Christian and joined RTB as the vice president for research and apologetics. “The mission of Reasons To Believe is to show that science and faith are, and always will be, allies, not enemies,” states the organization’s website.

Other academics differ on the non-exclusive roles of faith and science.....

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