God’s invisible qualities have been clearly seen by scientists?

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Romans 1:

20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Scientists have no excuse; they should all believe. Was this Paul's point?

Let's see the context, Romans 1:

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
Paul targeted wicked people who opposed the godly truth. These were unbelievers. These were not scientists. In Paul's time, there were no scientists as we define it today.

19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
At that time, most people believed in some sort of god. Gentiles were idolaters.

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
These were not scientists.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
Paul targeted the immoral idolaters, not scientists.

25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
Paul was talking about immoral, wicked idolaters, not modern-day scientists.
 

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Romans 1:


Scientists have no excuse; they should all believe. Was this Paul's point?

Let's see the context, Romans 1:


Paul targeted wicked people who opposed the godly truth. These were unbelievers. These were not scientists. In Paul's time, there were no scientists as we define it today.


At that time, most people believed in some sort of god. Gentiles were idolaters.


These were not scientists.


Paul targeted the immoral idolaters, not scientists.


Paul was talking about immoral, wicked idolaters, not modern-day scientists.
I imagine some scientists understand that God is in control, and some don't.
 
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