About the Author

For more than three decades, I have worked as a biomedical researcher—studying how genes and molecules regulate life, teaching and mentoring Honors, Master’s and PhD students, and publishing more than 50 research articles.

Science trained me to ask how.

How do genes work? How do cells communicate? How does disease develop? How can a claim be tested against evidence?

But not every important question is a question of mechanism.

Science can describe the processes of life, aging and death. The most advanced medicine can prolong life, but it cannot make the body immortal. Nor can science determine why human life has value, why love and sacrifice are good, why cruelty and betrayal are wrong, whether suffering has meaning, or whether death is the end.

I also found myself wondering why hospitals—institutions built on science and medicine—make room for prayer, spiritual care and questions of meaning.

That is not a failure of science. It is a boundary of what the scientific method is designed to answer.

Those deeper why questions led me back to the book I had grown up with: the Bible. I had read it many times, but much of it left me unconvinced and often skeptical. When I returned to it with the habits science had taught me—to question, examine, compare and reason—I began to understand it differently.

The Bible confronted me with the mortality of the body, the reality of human brokenness and the possibility that death is not the end. It also offered the most compelling account I had encountered of our capacity for love, courage and self-sacrifice alongside our pride, greed, deception and violence.

Scientific reasoning did not lead me away from the Bible. It helped me read it more carefully. At the center of its message, I found Jesus Christ. I became convinced that his death and resurrection answer the question science cannot: whether death has the final word.

It was not a thunder-and-lightning moment like Paul’s transformation from a persecutor of Christianity into one of its greatest evangelists. Nor was it a moment of conversion, because I had always been a Catholic Christian, though often a skeptical one.

Instead, my journey was more like that of Luke, a doctor who carefully investigated everything about Jesus from the beginning so that others might know the certainty of what they had been taught. His investigation resulted in two books: the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.

My own investigation resulted in this website and a book, The Life of Christ Jesus, with possibly more books to come.

I remain a scientist, and I always will be. Science has been both my vocation and my livelihood. It helps me understand how the body lives. Christ answers why life matters and where my final hope lies.

My conclusion is simple:

“Science is for my perishable body, and Christ is for my immortal soul.”

On ChristianityInfo.com, I explain my understanding of biblical teachings, Christian beliefs and theological questions in plain, accessible language.

On BiologyWithin.com, I explain how the human body works and make complex scientific ideas easier to understand.

—Chris Morais, MSc, MPhil, PhD