Yet Another Christian Nobel Laureate

Charles Col­son just brought anoth­er Chris­t­ian Nobel Lau­re­ate to my atten­tion: Arno Pen­zias. Dr. Pen­zias won the Nobel Prize in Physics for co-dis­cov­er­ing cos­mic back­ground radi­a­tion.

Dr. Pen­zias says, “The cre­ation of the uni­verse is sup­port­ed by all the observ­able data astron­o­my has pro­duced so far. As a result, the peo­ple who reject the data can arguably be described as hav­ing a �religious� belief.” That is, peo­ple who refuse to con­sid­er the evi­dence because it con­flicts with their pre­con­ceived ideas are fol­low­ing a “dog­ma” in the most stub­born sense of the word.

In an arti­cle in Per­spec­tives on Sci­ence and Chris­t­ian Faith, Pen­zias told Dr. Jer­ry Bergman of the Amer­i­can Sci­en­tif­ic Affil­i­a­tion, “I invite you to exam­ine the snap­shot pro­vid­ed by half a century�s worth of astro­phys­i­cal data and see what the pieces of the uni­verse actu­al­ly look like.… In order to achieve con­sis­ten­cy with our obser­va­tions we must … assume not only cre­ation of mat­ter and ener­gy out of noth­ing, but cre­ation of space and time as well.”

Pen­zias, a Nobel Prize win­ner, added, “The best data we have are exact­ly what I would have pre­dict­ed had I had noth­ing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.”

Read the rest of Col­son’s com­men­tary…

I’m updat­ing the list of famous sci­en­tists who believe.