2007-01-14 06:01:50 · 39 answers · asked by Jessi 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Many of them, yes.
2007-01-14 06:16:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say that most are, but not all. Those that aren't atheists would incorporate their religious and scientific views into a single belief system that they feel comfortable with. Many people that believe in things like evolution and the big bang simply explain that the Old Testament was written largely in symbolism and metaphor and should be taken as such instead of literally. Also, not all religions are in conflict with modern science. Some can coexist readily.
Also, where would alternative sciences, like parapsychology, be if scientists didn't hold some belief in things that they cannot see?
2007-01-14 06:09:17 · answer #2 · answered by baka_otaku30 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I think most are far from it. They seek the proveable answers that most want to just take on faith. They take the unmeasureable and try to find out how to duplicate it. They understand there is the unexplained and the explainable. That does not make them an atheist, that makes them stand in awe of the universe and want to understand why. Remember the official church stance for hundreds of years was that the earth was flat and the sun revolved around the earth. Excommunication was the result of questioning it. We know today that is not true but does it diminish the fact that it is a wonder that it does.
2007-01-14 06:15:16 · answer #3 · answered by cece 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I think they just chose not to go and ask questions that are out of their field.
Scientists who arent very spiritual, tend to think on nothing more than on a physical level.
Their life is spent on constant observation and trying to proove or disprove things.
Things that lay outside their boundaries like the presence of a creator, the end of the universe and so on go into the field of philosophy and religion.
Unless these scientists arent just scientists but are philosophers in the same time, I reckon they wouldnt tread on the ground of existence of things they cant proove.
As surely as that, youll never see real scientists, people who discover cures for illnesses or create bombs, actually come out and speak their mind about God.
Theyre very careful about such things because they know its beyond their boundary to do so.
2007-01-14 06:13:12 · answer #4 · answered by Antares 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. most scientists I know have some sort of conviction. Because in the world of science you can learn and learn and learn until your head hurts but some mysteries that people crazily try to solve are above the thoughts of humans heads. Like say..... the creation of the earth or for that matter the universe! scientists have well you know the big band theory. but i think deep down they know that a cosmic explosion couldn't have just happen in the vast nothingness of space and BANG! everything is perfect. No there had to be a higher power. a bigger being. God.
2007-01-14 06:13:03 · answer #5 · answered by yuuki chan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, the majority.
(With a significant minority holding different views)
See the URL below, and consider the second table shown.
55% of *American* scientists believe "Man has developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. God had no part in this process."
I'd expect the proportion to be higher in most other developed western countries, given the uniquely high percentage of the general population of the USA that profess Christianity.
2007-01-14 06:18:49 · answer #6 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that is necessarily true. I do think, however, that Scientists, and other academic individuals have a different theology than many others.
Knowing that the proof of a 6 day creation, an Inerrant Bible, or a resurrection means that a person must examine the core of their beliefs, and adapt them to the world they know exists.
2007-01-14 06:08:04 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Bad Day 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some scientists will be atheists,just as some politicians will be atheist, some truck drivers will be atheist, some train drivers will be atheist, some engineers will be atheist. So why the problem with scientists?
2007-01-14 06:06:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
No, many are very faithfilled followers of some faith, more faithful than I am in mine, anyway.
Being a scientist does not make you an Atheist, many times finding what they find makes them more religious than many would think.
2007-01-14 14:07:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think scientists are brain dead!
They want us to believe that continents go around bumping into each other making mountains.
With that mentality being an atheist would come naturally.
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2007-01-14 06:16:12 · answer #10 · answered by james 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to the Journal Nature, 93% of the National Academy of Sciences do not believe in God.
2007-01-14 06:08:22 · answer #11 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋