Do you understand the difference between Christians who are scientists, and Christian Scientists?
Some people have misunderstood when I said 'Christian scientists aren't real scientists', and thought that I was saying that Christians can't be scientists.
I don't consider Christian science to be a valid scientific field. What do you think?
2008-12-29T11:00:59Z
For those who say that the term 'Christian scientist' is ambiguous, how could I clarify that I mean Christian scientists rather than Christians who are scientists?
2008-12-29T11:29:34Z
Denise t, you're thinking of Scientology. It was invented by L Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer.
Anonymous2008-12-29T10:56:58Z
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As a Christian, my first thought when I hear "Christian Scientist" is the psycho, anti-medical, let your kid die of pneumonia, nut jobs.
Elaboration would help, or just "Scientists that are Christian."
They may share some similar beliefs (I don't know, I'm not an expert). However, the Christian Scientists are Christian. That means they believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and will come again to save the faithful. Scientologists believe in the concept introduced in L Ron Hubbard's book "Dianetics" that all human souls are really aliens and Earth is some kind of prison with all of human history being falsified by some intergalactic super-villain.
Scientists, don't normally identify themselves as a specific religion.
Edit: Notice how I wrote it? Christian Scientist because it's a proper name of a group of people. Scientist is only capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. Again, scientists don't normally identify their religious beliefs.
Well, of course. There are plenty of Christian Scientists around here. I don't mistake them for holding Ph.D. degrees in physics. They're not literal scientists. However, I do have a number of Christian friends (not Christian Scientists) who do, in fact, hold graduate degrees in various scientific disciplines (astronomy, physics, biology and more).