Welcome to this page on Faith and Science!

Thank you for visiting this page on faith and science, maintained by Karl Heinz Kienitz. This is an English, simplified version of my personal page on faith and science. The full content is available only in the Portuguese version. My academic resume is available in Portuguese.

The purpose of this page is to contribute subsidies to objective reflection on science and the Christian faith, in the tradition of the great scientists with faith in the God of the Bible, the creator and sustainer of all things. Among these scientists are Kepler, Boyle, Ampere, Volta, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Cauchy, Euler, Boole, Fresnel, Faraday, Henry, Dalton, Joule, Pasteur, Mendel, Kelvin, Maxwell, Stokes, Riemann, Gibbs, Rayleigh, Compton and Donald Knuth, to mention just a few very well known names. Their lives and work corroborate the basic understanding that "revelational theism has never offered itself as an escape from rationality." (Carl F.H. Henry, Remaking of the modern mind.)

Here you will find an introductory text on science and faith and a comprehensive interview on this topic. You may also want to read my personal perspective on engineering and faith.

Kepler, Ampere, Maxwell, Planck: these and other scientists lived a life of faith in the God of the Bible

A few articles about science and faith:

• D. Alexander - "Models for relating science and religion", Faraday Paper No. 3, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, April 2007.
• L. Haarsma - "Christianity as a foundation for science", In: D.C. Elliott (Ed.) - Proclaiming freedom in the land: the role of the professorate in promoting Christ centered learning, p. 51-62, Christian Educators Association International, Pasadena, CA, 2003.
• K.H. Kienitz - "On the significance of the biography and thought of Pilgram Marpeck for a responsible engineering perspective", Proc. Christian Engineering Conference, Cedarville, OH, pp. 31-44, 2017.
• K.H. Kienitz - "Friedrich Dessauer: Biomedical Engineering Pioneer and Model for Involvement in Science, Engineering, Philosophy and Politics", Proc. Christian Engineering Conference, Sioux Center, IA, 2019.
• J. Polkinghorne - "The science and religion debate - an introduction", Faraday Paper No. 1, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, April 2007.
• A. Plantinga - "Religion and science", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007.
• H. F. Schaefer III - "Scientists and their gods", a lecture on science and Christian faith, by a chemistry professor from Texas A & M University.
• R. Stark; L. R. Iannaccone; R. Fink - "Religion, science and rationality," American Economic Review, vol. 86, number 2, pp. 433-437, May 1996.
• R. Stark - "False conflict," The American Enterprise, pp. 27 - 33, October / November 2003.
• R. Trigg - "Does science need religion?", Faraday Paper No. 2, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, April 2007.

Other documents on science and faith:

• Faith and Science, Augustus N. Lopes interviews Karl H. Kienitz, September 13, 2012.
• Karl Kienitz, professor at ITA, speaks about science and the Christian faith, Johannes Janzen interviews Karl H. Kienitz, March 15, 2012.
• Science and faith: an interview with a biochemist, with Russell W. Carlson, professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Georgia , USA, February 12, 2014.
• From religion to relationship, a personal testimony, Prof. John F. Walkup, Texas Tech University, Fellow of the IEEE.
• Seminar notes on science and the Christian faith, based on the life and accomplishments of James C. Maxwell.
• Biographical article about Joseph Henry, from the archives of the Smithsonian Institution.
• Benedict XVI, "Letter to the militant Italian atheist, Piergiorgio Odifreddi", originally published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, September 2013.
• John Paul II, Faith and reason, Encyclical, 1998.
• John Paul II, "Science and faith in the search for truth", 1980.
• Interview on science and faith with Francis Collins (chief scientist of the Human Genome Project), National Geographic, February 2007.
• Leading British scientists talk about their scientific research and their faith in God.
• Several testimonies from professors of important American universities were compiled by Prof. P. M. Anderson in Professors who believe, InterVarsity Press, 1998. Part of this collection are the following:
  1. "Unseen realities," by Prof. J. Gary Eden, University of Illinois, Urbana, Fellow of the IEEE.
  2. "Three heavens - our home," by Prof. Patricia H. Reiff, Rice University.
  3. "Odinary memoir," by Prof. John Suppe, Princeton University, member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

Sites on science and faith:

• Faith and Science, a page of the Vatican Observatory.
• Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, published by the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy.
• The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmunds College, Universidade de Cambridge.
• "Our fascinating universe", order page and trailer of a DVD production exploring the importance of the relationship between faith and science. Produced by Institut für Glaube und Wissenschaft, Germany, it features interviews with professors Arnold Benz (ETH Zürich), Barbara Drossel (Technical University Darmstadt), Peter C. Hägele (University of Ulm), Alfred Krabbe (University of Stuttgart), John Lennox (University of Oxford) and Alister McGrath (King's College, London).
• Prof. Egbert Schuurman's page, Technical Universities of Delft and Eindhoven, University of Wageningen, member of the Dutch parliament.
• Prof. John Lennox's page, University of Oxford.
• A personal page by Prof. Rosalind Picard, MIT.
• "Why I am a Christian", a page by Prof. James J. Choi, Yale University.
• A page by Prof. Arnold Neumaier, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria.
• A page by Prof. Hans Bodlaender, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
• Veritas Forum, an organization that promotes events for the discussion of the Christian faith in universities.
• Virtual Library of the Veritas Forum at the University of California Santa Barbara.
• The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
• BioLogos, page on science and the Christian faith, by BioLogos Foundation.

• R.J. Berry (Ed.) - Real scientists, real faith, Monarch Books, 2009.
• P. Bocchino & N.L. Geisler - Unshakeable foundations, Bethany House, 2000.
• R. Bowie - Does Christian Faith Make Sense? Haggai Institute, 2007.
• F. Collins - The language of God, Free Press, 2006.
• P. Copan et al. (Org.) - Dictionary of Christianity and science: The definitive reference for the intersection of Christian faith and contemporary science, Zondervan, 2017.
• W. L. Craig - Reasonable faith: Christian truth and apologetics, 3rd edition, Crossway, 2008.
• N. Geisler & P. Hoffman - Why I am a Christian, Baker Books, 2007.
• N. Geisler & F. Turek - I don't have enough faith to be an atheist, Crossway Books, 2004.
• W. Gitt - In the beginning was information, Master Books, 2006. Also available: Videos related to the book.
• D. Graves - Scientists of faith: forty-eight biographies of historic scientists and their Christian faith, Kregel Publications, 1996.
• K. Ham, H. Ross, D.B. Haarsma, S. C. Meyer - Four views on creation, evolution and intelligent design, Zondervan, 2017.
• J.C. Lennox - God's undertaker: has science buried God?, Lion Publishing, 2009.
• C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity, Harper, 2001.
• A. McGrath - The science of God, Eerdmans, 2004.
• N.R. Pearcey; C.B. Thaxton - The soul of science: Christian faith and natural philosophy, Crossway Books, 1994.
• A. Plantinga - Where the conflict really lies: science, religion, and naturalism, Oxford University Press, 2011.
• A. Plantinga - Warranted Christian belief, Oxford University Press, 2000.
• T. Reinke - God, technology, and the Christian life, Crossway, 2022.
• G. Samuel - Science and Faith. Haggai Institute, 2006.
• E. Schuurman - Faith and hope in technology, Clements Publishing, 2003.
• H. F. Schaefer III - Science and Christianity: conflict or coherence?, 2nd Edition, The Apollos Trust, 2013.
• Perspectives on science and Christian faith, the journal of the American Scientific Affiliation.
• An e-book by Tihomir Dimitrov with quotations from famous scientists on faith and science can be downloaded from here.