Statements of Belief in God that is either Compatible with Science OR Not in Conflict with Science - Omni-God faiths like Hinduism and Christianity

Last updated on 11 Aug. 2026

These statements offer a framework of belief in God that is either compatible with science or not in conflict with science, tailored for Omni-God traditions including Hinduism and Christianity. Related Background

I think I have a good understanding of core Hinduism religion and a decent understanding of Christian religion. As of 2020, according to Wikipedia, Christianity and Hinduism taken together comprises 43.7% of the world population with Islam taking up 25.6%, unaffiliated taking up 24.2%, Buddhism 4.1% and other religions taking up only 2.4%.

Buddhism and Jainism do not seem to believe in an all-powerful creator God. This document will not apply to those religions and any other religion that does not believe in an all-powerful creator God.

I do think that this document will largely align with the perspectives of scientists and technologists from Hindu and Christian traditions who personally believe in God. I am referring to these two faiths together as Omni-God (Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent God) faiths. I don't think I am in a position to consider Islamic faith in this document as I don't know enough about it. The 'We' in the statements below refers to scientists and technologists of these two Omni-God faiths of Hinduism and Christianity. But it could also apply to some other faiths which hold a similar belief in an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, creator God.

Statements of Belief in God that is either Compatible with Science OR Not in Conflict with Science - Omni-God faiths

1. Holy scripture of Omni-God faiths are typically viewed by people of those faiths as divine revelations. We believe that such holy scripture should be interpreted in an allegorical (as against literal) way such that it avoids conflict, as far as feasible, with established knowledge bases like that of science, history, jurisprudence etc.
2. We believe that God reveals Himself through nature. Nature is an expression of God.
3. We believe that God has the power to redeem and save believers from the limitations of worldly life, and take them to eternal life or merger with God. We believe in the concept of sin/mistakes committed by persons, with faith in God and sincere repentance for the sin/mistake committed, leading to us being saved from the effect/burden of those sins/mistakes OR being given strength and divine grace to easily bear the effect/burden of those sins/mistakes.
4. Some, but not all, of the Omni-God faiths believe in historical (as against mythological) incarnation of God/Divine power as man (or animal), and in the course of that historical incarnation, the incarnation being both man as well as Divine endowed with great supernatural power. Some of the Omni-God faith(s) believe in blessed prophet(s) who are used by God as a messenger with that prophet having some supernatural power endowed on him by God. In some of the Omni-God faith(s), they may not believe that God himself takes a human (or animal) incarnation.
5. We believe that God is directly involved with and intervenes in human affairs. God does respond to prayer though that response may not be immediate.
6. We believe that God is involved in natural laws as creator and sustainer but also has the ability to work outside natural laws by doing supernatural acts (miracles).
7. We consider science to be an important tool for understanding natural laws (and that science is not limited to understanding nature). But we reject the view that science provides the most valuable part of human learning to the exclusion of other sources of knowledge including divine revelations of holy scripture of various faiths. We reject the view that science has debunked or refuted God and religion. We believe that faith in God can be, and is, in the case of some of the Omni-God faiths, either compatible with science OR not in conflict with science.
8. We believe that God created the universe including earth, and life over billions of years as measured by humans. We believe that God is actively involved in the world now.
9. We accept the scientific theory of evolution and that acceptance is not in conflict with our belief in God.
10. While most of the Omni-God faiths do believe that the human being among all forms of life on earth has a larger spiritual role besides the biological role, some faiths may not limit the spiritual role to only humans among all forms of life on earth.
11. We believe that controversial matters dealing with science and various faiths should and can be done in a civil and honest manner.
12. We believe that God is the embodiment of love and that we should love God with all our heart and all our mind, and that God responds to our love with various expressions of His love. As humans, most, if not all, of us may not be able to really comprehend why a loving God has created pain and suffering in this world but that may be due to our limited understanding and vision.
13. We believe that God, in the normal course of events, ensures that human beings (some faiths include other living beings as well) who do good acts receive good results (benefit) for those acts, and ensures that those who do bad acts receive bad results (suffering) for those acts. The belief about the manner in which the human being (or other living being) gets the benefits or suffering varies across faiths (e.g. in heaven/hell (or equivalent) or in future in this lifetime or, for those faiths which believe in reincarnation, one of the future lifetimes). However, the results (good/bad) of actions are not immutable and can be changed by factors like Grace of God. Further, some faiths like Hinduism have the belief that by dedicating the action to God and doing the action as sacred duty/offering to God, without any desire/attachment for the results, the person concerned does not accumulate future karmic entanglements involving good or bad karma, and is thereby saved from undergoing that karma in future (good or bad).

Additional Views

1. We accept that atheists and agnostics should have the right to not believe in any God, and be able to openly state their lack of belief in God. We believers in God should view them with love and tolerance, and not hate them simply because they do not believe in God.
2. We acknowledge that there is no scientific evidence so far of supernatural power/divine power gathered under controlled conditions of scientific investigators, that is acceptable to leading science journals. This document does not speculate on why God/divine power has, so far, not provided evidence of supernatural power under controlled conditions, that is acceptable to science/leading science journals.
3. Subjective/individual experience of divine power, including supernatural/paranormal experiences, that intervened in a believer's life to help him/her, usually in response to earnest prayer to the Divine, is what makes some people become deeply committed believers in supernatural divine power that responds to prayer. However, mainstream science will not accept such subjective/individual experience as fact due to lack of objective evidence gathered under controlled conditions. We fully understand this view of mainstream science and have no quarrel/conflict with mainstream science on this count.

Background

Recently I had a verbal conversation with a person about my God and Science related old blog posts. I later looked up and sent some of the related blog post links to the person. At that time, I noticed that my following blog post in 2017: Feedback on my adaptation of Crisp Statements of Belief in God that is Compatible with Science had suggested an adaptation of such statements provided by an organization founded by a leading Christian scientist, to encompass traditions of Hinduism at least. But I had not yet followed through on it.

I decided this was a suitable time to do the follow-up and that resulted in this post.