Statement of divine truth: Most intellectuals do not believe in GOD?

Question

LIfe is hard on hell's doormat

It reminds me of that ERykah Badu song
"On and On"

I quote: MOst intellects do not believe in God yet they fear just the same

I love that song

By the way I phrased the contradictory statement as a question just to get your attention. I actually enjoy my intellectual pursuits. Thanks for listening

When I think atheist I think someone who was against organized religion.

Someone like ALbert Einstein who was against the limitations that dogma had on the human soul and intelligence.

Answer 1

Plenty of Scientists are Christians though.

http://www.tektonics.org/scim/sciencemony.htm

This essay presents over 1600 mini-biographies of scientists of the Christian faith—including scholars, mathematicians, and theologians who advanced the cause of science. These Christians pioneered disciplines ranging from oceanography to astronomy, geology to biology, rocket science to genetics.

(First Entry) Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/collins.html, in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

“I think there’s a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

“Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it’s rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, ‘Faith is actually plausible.’ You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone.”

Answer 2

Then they are not to be considered intellectuals. They cannot
understand that there is one source to everything. Earth
is dust from the sun. The sun is part of a gas fromation in the
middle of the galaxy the galaxy is part of the universe but what about the universe and the millions of other universes.
Those intellects cannot hold that much memory in their
"super" brain. I may not be an intellectual but I am 13 and
an honors student. Not everything has a rational explanation
mostly things the human mind cannot comprehend.
Every religion beleives in one source. Wether it is Bhuda, Vishnu
etc. Nobody can deny that.

Answer 3

A professor of applied mathematics and astronomy from University College (Cardiff, Wales), Chandra Wickramasinghe describes the reality he faced as a scientist who had been told throughout his life that life had emerged as a result of chance coincidences:
From my earliest training as a scientist, I was very strongly brainwashed to believe that science cannot be consistent with any kind of deliberate creation. That notion has had to be painfully shed. At the moment, I can’t find any rational argument to knock down the view which argues for conversion to God. We used to have an open mind; now we realize that the only logical answer to life is creation-and not accidental random shuffling.
(Chandra Wickramasinghe, Interview in London Daily Express,
August 14, 1981)

Renowned atheist philosopher Anthony Flew says:
Notoriously, confession is good for the soul. I will therefore begin by confessing that the Stratonician atheist has to be embarrassed by the contemporary cosmological consensus. For it seems that the cosmologists are providing a scientific proof of what St. Thomas contended could not be proved philosophically; namely, that the universe had a beginning. So long as the universe can be comfortably thought of as being not only without end but also beginning, it remains easy to urge that its brute existence, and whatever are found to be its most fundamental features, should be accepted as the explanatory ultimates. Although I believe that it remains still correct, it certainly is neither easy nor comfortable to maintain this position in the face of the Big Bang story.
Some scientists like the British materialist physicist H. P. Lipson confess that they have to accept the Big Bang theory whether they want it or not:
If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation, how has it come into being?… I think, however, that we must…admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it.
In conclusion, science points to a single reality whether materialist scientists like it or not. Matter and time have been created by a Creator, Who is All-Powerful and Who created the heavens, the earth and all that is in between: Almighty Allah.

It is Allah who created the seven heavens and of the earth the same number, the Command descending down through all of them, so that you might know that Allah has power over all things and that Allah encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Surat at-Talaq: 12)

Answer 4

There are many intellectuals who do believe in God. Anyway, if everyone in the world stole something and only 1 person didn't, would you stand on divine truth that stealing is okay because most do it. You reasoning escapes me. Wrong is wrong and that is absolute. God exists and that is also an absolute truth, just because many do not accept it, does not make it any less true.

Answer 5

'most' may not believe in god. Some do. for true intellectuals , they cannot stop somewhere along the line and say they are perfect now and what they say is always right. true intellectuals dont stop searching for the answer. there comes a time when they come full circle. they may not still believe in God , but they will not be outright athiests either.

Answer 6

Hell doesn't have a doormat just a gate for those to be thrown into who don't believe in God. If they were intellectuals they would be agnostics. Life is hard for those with no belief system because they worship themselves and these people don't even like themselves.

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Answer 7

Albert Einstein was an atheist, Stephen Hawking is an agnostic. Damn straight I could name more people, but am I going to? Nope.

Answer 8

I'd love to see if there is a correlation between an increase of intelligence and a drop in blind faith!

I would hope so - religion ruins so much!

It certainly wrecked Einstein in the end!

Answer 9

I think that's absolutely the truth...they just know better. Intellectuals tend to be truth seekers, they will spend a good part of their time subconsciencly finding truths in everything. Most of REAL life does not reflect the existence of god. so through reasonible deduction god=ignorance. Enjoy your delusion!

Answer 10

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