How important it is for scientists to have a belief, religious or otherwise, in order to do thier job in science?
Please differentiate between natural and social scientists.
2006-09-16 05:50:27 · 6 answers · asked by oracle 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
religion without science is blind,science without religion is lame.
2006-09-16 06:03:44 · answer #1 · answered by vramana88 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everybody believes in something. There are some religious scientist out there, but the vast majority of them are not. Still they have their own belief system, and that is either MATERIALISM or NATURALISM.
Materialism states that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions.
For materialsts supernatural doesn't exist, what we can't understand yet we will understand later as the science progresses.
Naturalism instead says that all observable events in nature are explained only by natural causes, without assuming the existence or non-existence of the supernatural, and so considers supernatural explanations for such events to be outside science, without denying the existence of supernatural itself.
No matter who your scientist is, sadly he has a set of presumtions (even the scientifical method he uses is a presumtion), so nobody is really 100% objective, religious or non-religious.
From this point of view, I don't think there's a difference between natural and social scientists
2006-09-16 06:06:11 · answer #2 · answered by Zeke 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully nothing. As soon as belief interferes with science, it becomes crap.
As soon as Einstein's belief interfered with his scientific endeavors his output dropped to Zero. He wasted the last 36 years of his life to religious crap. Pity really.
He rejected quantum mechanics, 'because god would not play dice with the universe'. A statement that is obviously wrong (aside from the fact of the non existence of such an entity).
2006-09-16 05:52:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Clear, concise proof of thier theories.
2006-09-16 06:00:15 · answer #4 · answered by kekeke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They believe that everything happens for a reason- they don't wanna use religious facts for proof- they want somethings that are "down-on-earth". Take "evolution" for example...
2006-09-16 05:59:08 · answer #5 · answered by YA!!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything wid proofs
2006-09-16 05:52:54 · answer #6 · answered by sting 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋