by Dante de Miura

Created on: June 02, 2009   Last Updated: June 03, 2009

The more intelligent we become, the more we know about the world around us, the deeper we understand, the broader our knowledge, the more likely we are to believe in a Creator; a belief that can grow and be explored through practiced religion. No, the demand for higher education and the seekers whom answer that demand, will feed religion and religious life, not starve it.

Religion is the means to help us frame how and why we are here and what will happen to us next. If we come to know for ourselves "how" and "why" we are here, we find that religion also helps us to understand how to "be" here.

Science is the means to understand what was created and to define in human terms, the relationship of all things present in the universe to themselves and to us. Science is an excellent way learn how creation works.

For centuries, many of our greatest achievers in the sciences have believed in a higher or supreme being and a purposeful, "intelligent design," as the blueprint for the existence of everything.

Consider this list, as each of them fit the above description. In fact some of them were deeply religious and highly involved in practicing religion:

Nicholas Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyl, Michael Faraday, Gregor Mendel, William Thomson Kelvin, Max Planck and Albert Einstein.

All of these people are considered fathers of modern science. Their work includes discoveries and advances in chemistry, astronomy, physics, mathematics, biology, electro-magnetism, genetics, medicine, philosophy and more.

Here is a quote from a very educated and accomplished professional:

"I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." - Allan Sandage, prominent cosmologist

In fact, Albert Einstein himself denounced a "non-created" universe and absolutely denied atheism. He also said, "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

As it turns out, many highly educated men and women of advanced science, and often as they learn more and more and reach the pinnacles of their career, come to be in such awe of what they find they cannot deny the existence of God. They come to accept Creationism as a deliberate, intentional, precise execution of a perfect and intelligent plan. This is especially true, it seems, for highly accomplished physicists.

If we need an atheist for a debate, I go to the philosophy department. The physics department isn't much use. - Robert Griffiths, physicist and winner of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Higher education is key to leading people to the ultimate conclusion, that all we see and observe was created by purpose, not chance. This understanding is a driver for the well-educated to join or support a religious movement or practice. If it were not, we would not find religious believers among these scientific ranks.

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