2006-07-14 18:48:08 · 30 answers · asked by LAbikerboy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no, they teach. People who believe in religions usually preach in a church, not at school. Professors are supposed to be NEUTRAL so he/she doesn't violate anyone's belifs.
2006-07-14 18:51:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Of course they are if they believed in a Creator and admitted it, they would be out of a job and all that money that goes into investigating the (all ready proved false) Religion of evolution would go Bye, Bye!
They are still looking at things in a text book that have been shown to be wrong, somethings a hundred years ago. Modern text books still show the gills on an embryo, show a horse evolve, have statements regarding "missing links" that were put together from 1 tooth and then learned it was a pig?! All these have been found to be false and continually lied about! Unbelievable that high school and college kids are taught this as fact when it has been proved and admitted to being false!
2006-07-15 02:20:43 · answer #2 · answered by William H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, are you sure they are? Many famous scientists and important thinkers have been religious. When I teach a college class, I don't constantly refer to my religion, but that doesn't mean I don't have one.
Secondly, I think that the process that people go through to become a college professor doesn't always work for people who have family values. Those who want to spend time with their families might have a hard time fulfilling the rigorous lifestyle usually needed to get a Ph.D. degree and survive in the academic world of teaching, research, and service. So I think that, sometimes, people of faith are "weeded out" of academics in a sense because they choose not to live that lifestyle. (As an academic myself and also a religious person, I recognize that my values are not always the same as those of my coworkers. I know a female professor, for example, who is putting off having children, I believe, because she is spending so much time and energy on establishing her academic career.)
2006-07-15 16:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bit.
I attended a public, ivy league university, in the Mid West, with no religious affiliations and an incredibly high percentage of full professors with multiple doctorates, and yet I knew many who were people of faith--several Muslims, many Protestants, a few Catholics and Jews, a Hindu, and even a person who practiced Santeria.
Perhaps its the kinds of classes you are taking and the kinds of professors you are drawn to that have created the percentages you are questioning.
I was an anthropology major, with minors in women's studies, sociology, and psychology.
What is your field?
2006-07-15 01:55:45 · answer #4 · answered by GoddessOfTransformation 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because they have a student like you who convinced them that there is no God! hahaha. Just kidding. Please don't take it to heart.
Faith is the substance of things hope for and things not seen. The kingdom of God is not food and drink. Even among believers, I find that those believers who are very 'mental' always try to understand God from their mind instead of letting God teach them about Himself. What I mean is this. I see a few believers (they should be call thinkers) who do not believe the bible as it is but tries to understand it then they believe. I used to be like that until I realized that the ways of God is to believe first and then you see. It is like if you want to learn a new language let say Japanese, it would be better to understand their culture and their way of life in order to fully appreciate the language. But some people in trying to learn Japanese, tries to correct the Japanese 'grammar' or fit it into the English way that totally breaks the Japanese language. Understand?
2006-07-15 03:02:56 · answer #5 · answered by Luke Lim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it surprise you that most professors have been in school all their life and have never been out in the real world. It's one thing to talk about life, it's another thing to live it.
2006-07-15 01:57:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I'm not surprised. Religion doesn't work for the educated, thinking populace. It was created as a way to control the majority of the working peasants.
2006-07-15 01:57:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. Education teaches a person to question things, and that things are not always as we think they are. They are better informed, and have learned to investigate religion and science before making a decision. Most educated people do question things rather than believing what they are told.
2006-07-15 01:52:54 · answer #8 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A little. I had a biology professor who was a devout Christian teaching evolution.
Yes, he explained it well, but being that theology isn't the same as biology, I can help you by explaining that God made the mechanism, we can only understand it.
In plainer English, Science can explain HOW, theology explains WHY. The two are very compatible.
2006-07-15 01:52:35 · answer #9 · answered by Yah00_goddess 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they probably do worship.
Just at the alter of environmentalism.Instead of Judeo-Christian religion.
They criticize people of faith, Yet they take liberal and other "anti establishment" info on blind faith... Ironic???
It does surprise me though that so many people think that education makes somebody smart....
Learning the answer to the question, Being taught the answer by someone else who all ready figured it out, doesn't change your intelligence. Figuring it out on your own, does.... Does my computer get smarter because I download more information to it???
2006-07-15 02:00:19 · answer #10 · answered by Rox 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not agree with this statement.
Most are Christians who have been suppressed by atheist and agnostics
There are quiet a bit of atheist Professor's, but they are not all atheist. Just most are afraid of showing their faith and be ostracized.
2006-07-15 01:52:13 · answer #11 · answered by lancelot682005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋