How can a scientist be religious?

Answer 1

He cannot, because then he is not a scientist. A scientist should not consider for serious thought anything that is neither verifiable nor falsifiable. Idea of God is like that.
How can you prove that I had imagined you would write this question just before you actually wrote it?

Answer 2

For a scientist to be religious simply means that they have to except that their is a being or a power that is greater than them. The only difference between the scientists and other people of faith is that their curiousity leads them in a search to find out how the different things in his world work. It is really no different from a toddler that has full faith in its parents, but still questions all that this is around them.

Answer 3

I guess it is a matter of having faith in something that cannot be proven?

Scientists look for proof of everything they do, they know that gravity is 9.81m/s2 because they can prove it mathematically but also because they have done experiments to prove it.

Religion/God cannot be found under a microscope or in a lab but in the scientist's everyday life.
You can cannot prove that there is no greater force or other dimensions to this world so why believe that there is nothing instead of something?

They thought that the atom was the smallest thing to exist in the world for a long time but that did not stop them from looking for something smaller? and they found them!

I suppose it is a matter of knowing that there is more to life than numbers and proof.

my physics teacher had a wonderful saying
"Learning more and more about less and less,
Until we know everything about nothing."
He was a very religious man, had a strong belief in God but was a wonderfully logical man.

Answer 4

Although many scientist are atheists many very notable scientists like Galillaeo, Newton, Descartes (well more of a matamatician his case), Darwin and so on were pertty devoutlt religious.

Answer 5

It is not difficult.

Even with a PhD, "the more I know the less I understand" seems to apply. I spent three years of my life to get a doctorate in science to discover how little we really know and understand about our world.

The idea of a conflict between science and religion is mainly from the european christian tradition. Check out the website below for "religious scientists"...

Answer 6

About 40% are religous.
Lord Winston and the Vatican Observatory are probably the best sources of information regarding this matter.
Science does not disprove the existance of deities but the questioning mind that leads people to become scientists *can* also lead them to question religous beliefs

Answer 7

Einstein believed in god as far as I remember

I think that Science is in the business of looking for answers to big questions- the biggest of which being the origin of the universe and man's place in it. In this respect, science and religion are similar. One will seek proof of god the other accepts faith as an answer to the most difficult questions.

I'm sure there are many religious scientists, and plenty who believe in god. It's human nature to question and investigate just as much as it is human nature to aspire to all things spiritual

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Answer 8

Easy: science is a form of religion. It is based on the principles of experimentation, observation and hypotheses. The christian religion is based on the principles of the bible. Although both are crap, I would take science over christianity any day.

Answer 9

You could be a rocket scientist and believe in religion....

Answer 10

I believe it is just a progression of the 'created in his own image' part where they work to understand as much of his creation as possible and then build on that understanding to better themselves. They also just focus on the moral message and use that to guide them as to what is ethical and what isn't.