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I am also a scientist, yet I am a Christian. I have been taught theories and they have been put across as fact, despite the fact that they are sometimes a little far-fetched.
For example:
Quarks
Yes, we're not sure what protons, neutrons and electrons are made up of, so let's make up these little "fundamental" particles which have a positive or negative 1/3 or 2/3 relative charge...
Neutrinos
Oh dear, the laws of conservation of energy are broken in this reaction! Let's make up a particle with no charge whatsoever (which is why we can't detect) and give it the same mass as an electron.
Primordial cell
Let's use extrapolation to determine that all life started from one cell 4 x 10^9 years ago.
People ask me why I believe that God created the universe when it's such an illogical explanation. To me it seems more logical that God created the universe than it all happening by chance!
Anyway, I was not brought up as a Christian either and I am very much the odd one out in my family. I did go to a Christian school from ages 5-11 and was told that there was a God and this was what happened etc. Then later I realised that I accepted it as fact because it was what I had been told to believe. I found true faith when I was 18... I believed because I had observed and analysed the evidence before me, not because of what somebody had told me to believe.