Are scientist atheist? Just asking Ive always wondered that.?

Question

Scientist always need cold hard facts and evidence for proof of things. Seeing is believing to them.

Answer 1

Studies show scientists tend to have far higher percentages of atheism than the population as a whole.

James H. Leuba found that 58% of 1,000 randomly selected U.S. natural scientists expressed "disbelief or doubt in the existence of God". The same study, repeated in 1996, gave a similar percentage of 60.7%; this number is 93% among the members of the National Academy of Sciences.

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
~ Albert Einstein, 1954, from "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press

Answer 2

Not necessarily. Some scientists claim to be christians or followers of other religions. Atheism simply means lack of belief in a deity; that is not a prerequisite for studying science.
You say that scientists always need facts and proof like it's a bad thing, but think about this: If no one demanded proof, if no one was interested in evidence, what would be the state of medicine right now? Would we have electricity? How about the internet? If everyone accepted the world without question, we would still be in the dark ages with religion dictating every aspect of our lives.

Answer 3

As a rule scientists who remain theists are among those who were indoctrinated into religion very early in life. You won't find many agnostics who became theists when they discovered science, in other words, though there are always oddball exceptions.

It's not just that scientists need hard facts and evidence -- they also must open their minds to all sides of a situation, which is something theists aren't inclined to do.

And Einstein was not a believer. He wrote: "From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.... I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our being." See http://skeptically.org/thinkersonreligion/id8.html for more information on the Einstein subject.

Answer 4

You're right. Hawking is an atheist and so was Einstein. But not all scientists are atheists. Most God-believing scientists just don't take the Bible so literally; that allows them to believe in science and religion at the same time. They also don't try to look for answers to their religions in science, because that creates all sorts of problems.

Answer 5

Not all.

Scientist know that you can not prove absolutes in this world while a lot of religions (though not all) require absoluteness in many situations.

Real scientist believe that there is a degree of certainty. Things are neither absolutely wrong nor are they absolutely right. One famous Nobel Science winner Richard Feynman backs up this claim and says science cannot hope to explain things such as love and human relationships. It cannot because there is no true scientific method to test and evaluate this.

Answer 6

Not all are atheists, but Einstein was not a christian before that spins out of control again.

Many are. "Christian Science" is not science as it does not look for answers, it looks to prove answers it already believes.

OK god damn. Einstein was a deist at best. Most likely agnostic on that subject. He did not care for the quantum theorem (god does not play dice with the universe) as it was too random for him, but as far as a god being in our personal lives read the rest of this:

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religion than it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism."

"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Scientist is a profession. It's their job to develop usable formulas so that the rest of us can improve our quality of life. Religion is a belief.

I knew a scientist friend that like to say ' My job is to try to figure out what God made. "

Answer 9

The answer to your question is no. Not all scientists are atheists. This, of course, drives the atheists insane.... Maybe that's why they do it?

Answer 10

There are some scientists who claim that science backs up religion, but I don't buy it.