I LOVE science with a passion, but I believe in God, and the scientists I have encountered get very sarcastic when God is brought up in a conversation. Why all the hostility?
2006-07-11 08:54:53 · 28 answers · asked by The man who Sweats 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am a scientist and I have a view. It is not that science and belief in God cannot go hand in hand. Let us not forget that when we think about science, we have already placed a limitation on what the five senses perceive. Aspects such as God indirectly deals with the sixth sense and imagination, something which can still take on scientific value if perceived within this realm.
Having said that ... let us look at the mathematical abstraction called "i", the imaginary number corresponding to the root of minus 1. We really dont know what it means but still conveniently use it for our calculations, like quantum mechanics and even lorenz transformations.
God can be another such abstraction !!
2006-07-11 09:06:51 · answer #1 · answered by fanotrek 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, there are quite a few scientists who believe in God. However, they tend to realize that their beliefs are outside of the realm of science and that they cannot be proved. If you are interested in how the world works, science is that way to go about it. If, instead, you are interested in spirituality, religion may be they way to go. Many people are interested in both.
With that said, there are very few scientists that are fundamentalists. That is because science is able to refute many of the claims of the fundamentalists and because most scientists are honest enough to require consistency in their beliefs.
Why the hostility? Because all too often those promoting the 'God line' are simply ignorant of the facts. Too many reject the Big Bang, or Evolution, or Relativity, all of which are as solid as any areas of science. Also, reciting from a religious text is not evidence in any scientific sense. It carries no weight in scientific discourse, nor should it. The problem is that too many people have had interpretations of religious texts that are simply known to be false after studied by the scientists.
2006-07-11 09:08:16 · answer #2 · answered by mathematician 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of scientists acknowledge the fact that there is something else going on beyond the dimensions that we are able to experience while others are steadfast that a God doesnt exist. I dont think that the root of the hostility is the fact that they hate God, but more like they hate the whole idea of religion simply because there is no scientific evidence to support such a thing. Somewhere there is a mix, and several people smarter than myself agree. In fact, a really smart guy by the name of Albert Einstein said something along the lines of "Science without religion is blind, religion without science is lame." I say, if its good enough for Albert Einstein, its good enough for me.
-J.
2006-07-11 09:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by Jason 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My college biology teacher was a Christian and my pastor was a biology major. Science and religion can definitely go hand and hand, people are just too naive or stubborn to see it. Check out the book "The Case For a Creator" there are many scientists that are now admitting the only logical conclusion is creation and the theory of design.
2006-07-11 09:01:24 · answer #4 · answered by ???? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are plenty of scientists who believe in God! If I'm not mistaken, I think that Newton, Darwin, and Einstein were supposed to have believed in God. I think that one reason, though, why a lot of scientists are skeptical of religion is because of the fundamentalist Christian backlash against science.
2006-07-11 08:59:37 · answer #5 · answered by tangerine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there are scientist who believe in God. What I don't understand is the hostility between people who believe in god.
2006-07-11 08:58:50 · answer #6 · answered by courage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science, by nature, has to work from the assumption that we don't have the answers to anything. Religion, by nature, has to work from the assumption that we can find all of our answers in a holy book. If you can manage to balance the two, I think that's awesome. I'm trying to figure out how to do it, and it's very exciting. I believe that the soul and the mind require different methods of stimulation to feel complete. Ie, science and academics for the mind, spirituality and religion for the soul. It might not be possible to combine the two into one entity, but it's certainly possible to be passionate about both in different ways!
2006-07-11 09:02:59 · answer #7 · answered by anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are. Now, those who try to reconcile science with their chosen religion's view are rare, since sometimes some apparent contradictions might come up.
The relative amount of believers will depend in the science field you choose, though. I read somewhere that only in medicine, the share of believers is statistically equal to that of the population in the specific country, in the rest of the fields, the share is much lower.
Einstein was deistic/agnostic. He didn't believe in a personal god.
2006-07-11 09:26:12 · answer #8 · answered by Oedipus Schmoedipus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know many scientist who believe in God. There is not a conflict. I myself believe in God and love science too.
2006-07-11 09:02:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there are, on TBN there was and may still be a program about science, mostly the universe and how it is so precise mathematically. The scientist is a Christian. There are more, but you can imagine the criticism they get from their atheist peers.
2006-07-11 09:33:18 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋