Scripted: Dr. Laton Investigates TSI’s Purpose
Dr. Laton: Hello friends, I’m Dave Laton, host of the podcast, Our Journey to Hope. Thank you for joining me as I visit with Dr. Theodore Sabir. Dr. Sabir is a professor of Chemistry at Faulkner University. He has started a new initiative called the Theophilus Science Institute. We will be exploring this initiative in our conversation. Hello, Dr. Sabir. As we begin this conversation, please tell us about yourself and your educational background.
Dr. Sabir: I've been blessed to have done rigorous scientific research on 2 PhDs in physical and natural sciences, and over these past 20 + years have served as a professor of hard-core sciences to thousands of students and have the privilege to work with and interact with some of the greatest minds in science.
Dr. Laton: What is your area of study in science and research?
Dr. Sabir: My area of research and teaching is in physical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and mathematical and scientific reasoning. All of which are considered hard-core sciences. I have also received formal graduate and post graduate education and training in theology. I am blessed to have trained thousands of students in science who have gone on to be scientists, professors, doctors, surgeons, and many other professions that are related to the scientific fields.
Dr. Laton: Let’s explore now the new initiative you are leading. What is Theophilos Science Institute and how was the idea conceived?
Dr. Sabir: Theophilos Science Institute is a group of chemists, physicists, mathematicians, biologists, and ministers. We formed to seek to edify God’s beloved body of believers by creating platforms, media, social content, and academic courses for confused and doubting Christians seeking truth. We believe, God’s design and instruction is best. Theophilos Science Institute seeks to show how science proves this fact.
Theophilos Science Institute is a transformative mission to North America. It is an association made up of scientists who are credentialed in research, are instructors of science in higher education in America today, and who are also Bible-believing Christians. You know, America from it’s birth has been a lion of Christianity and as such has been blessed BUT presently is turning away from God.
The Bible says, Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Many young people today are confused about their beliefs and life-views. They are intentionally being indoctrinated with ideas which are contrary to God’s holy and revealed word. Life-views contrary to God’s word are injected into our society that have engulfed our culture. Our nation is too tolerant of pagan, self-pleasing attitudes that permeate our culture and are refashioning the conceptual framework of our society.
Now, you have now a widespread acceptance of Evolution? Sexual fluidity? Abortion? Atheism?
Why do we allow such ideals to swirl in the mind of God’s people without bringing LOUD AND CLEAR opposition to these lies? The LORD put on my heart the vision of this institute for the purpose of showing how science complements the teachings of the Judeo-Christian Holy Scriptures, as well as to establish a platform that promotes and provides media channels and academic courses to teach people how to use sound reason, knowledge, and wisdom. We want our people to come to know the one true God in a nation that seeks to use knowledge, especially in the sciences, to substantiate their denial of God's existence.
Today we are witnessing in our culture and society many using the good name of the science to carry out their agendas and plans primarily to deprive the youth of this nation of biblical truth. Theophilos Science Institute was a vision to confront the hideous lies and bring in science to expose the dark agenda of those who use the good name of science to do wrong. Science declares the glory of God and every element on the periodic table the work of His hands.
Dr. Laton: That’s a challenging task given today’s political climate!
Dr. Sabir: Yes, there is a lot of politics in science. At Theophilos Science Institute, we focus on science and not the politics. I have gone through the rigors of 2 research PhDs in science.
Dr. Laton: When did you first get interested in this ministry?
Dr. Sabir: I noticed early on in my science education that evolution masks the Truth and seeks to change the meaning and purpose in life. I also learned that evolution cannot answer the fundamental questions of science; that evolution was more of a man-made attempt to willfully deprive science of the knowledge of God. In my PhD research, I learned that Science in fact exalts God through subatomic particles, atoms, elements, ions, compounds, chemical reactions, enzymatic actions, physical mechanisms, chemical properties, electron configurations, through every amino acid, proteins, cells, organs, organisms and through everything that is true science. And truly just as the Bible says, let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Dr. Laton: What do you find challenging in this whole area of inquiry?
Dr. Sabir: I do believe that science is a powerful tool for Christians in this age. I've often thought that it's especially important when "scientific evidence" seems to suggest an extra-natural cause for a particular phenomenon. When considering that modern science purports to be based in naturalism, how do we apprehend and/or comprehend the gravity of such a suggestion? When the very epistemological system one employs precludes a priori the existence of the extra-natural yet points to extra-natural as a cause for the phenomenon under consideration, does this not lend an incredible gravitas to the findings?
When we study the facts of science without evolutionary bias, we learn that science speaks volumes about the works of God. When I studied all these things in science, I began to connect the dots. I did not choose this field of science, but it truly chose me.
Dr. Laton: This is a very large undertaking. What help do you need to do this work?
Dr. Sabir: We put in time to get the PhDs in science, so you don’t have to! We have decades of scientific research and teaching experience. We are scientists who can confront the ugly lies of evolution being told in the good works of science to our youth, our education, our culture and society. We want to help transform the culture for Christ.
Those who love our vision and endeavor to reach out to this generation before it is too late are welcome to join in supporting this institution. We want to speak to those of you who love this ministry, to your congregation, and/or to your institution.
We also invite you to contribute as you can to the Institute. We are a 501c(3) nonprofit organization, which allows you to claim tax benefits by giving to Theophilos Science Institute operations or endowment. You can check out our website and we hope you will become a partner with us as we join our hands with our Creator to transform our academic and social culture to the image of Christ Jesus our LORD. We also ask for your prayers for us, our youth, the Institute, and our nation.
Dr. Laton: Can you review in under 1 minute what you want people to remember?
Dr. Sabir: We’ve taught at schools and universities and know the lies that children are learning about in today’s culture. Don’t be mistaken. This is affecting their faith.
We know the Bible, and we know science. We are scientists with natural, physical and mathematical research-based PhDs from American universities. We can confidently say Scripture greatly complements science. The Bible encourages the young and the old to study science and all of God’s ways. God’s word, the Holy Bible, is true. It’s been vetted and tried and has stood the test of time. My goal is to see a day in the future when one of the leading stories in the media -New York Times, ABC, MSNBC, CBN- and other media outlets is that evolution is no longer considered in the scientific community a fact.
Published by Dr. Theodore Sabir