Because it tends to lead to them either getting upset because science offers evidence of things contrary to what they believe, or it can be interpreted by them as being sacreligious & offensive.
Plus the religious used to burn scientists on the stake for blastphemy, heresy, or being a witch- holding back technology unnecessarily. So why should the scientific community support people who follow traditions which have lead to that?
I suppose you could argue that everybody deserves to be given the chance to realise that religion is bs designed to keep the masses submissive and in check.
2007-04-03 23:22:29 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Serena- "If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement."
De Revolutionibus Coelestibus (Nicolaus Copernicus)
Some non-religious scientists who shaped the world:
Claude Bernard
Rudolf Virchow
Ernest Rutherford
Paul Dirac
Comte de Buffon
Ludwig Boltzmann
Charles Lyell
Pierre Simon de Laplace
Edwin Hubble
Joseph J. Thomson
Francis Crick
Justus Liebig
Robert Koch
Dmitri Mendeleev
Emil Fischer
Gustav Kirchhoff
James Watson
John Bardeen
B. F. Skinner
Wilhelm Wundt
Alfred Kinsey
Many of the scientists you mentioned are from the 17th century (give or take 1), so do you not realise that religions were crammed down your throats then and you would be shunned if you did not conform?
2007-04-03 23:48:52 · update #1
"Because it tends to lead to them either getting upset because science offers evidence of things contrary to what they believe, or it can be interpreted by them as being sacreligious & offensive."
Some cases,I suppose.
"Plus the religious used to burn scientists on the stake for blastphemy, heresy, or being a witch- holding back technology unnecessarily."
Oh,you mean the small amount of times that actually happened means that it was a very widespread practice?
"I suppose you could argue that everybody deserves to be given the chance to realise that religion is bs designed to keep the masses submissive and in check."
Seriously,this argument is getting old.I am not in a mass.I am not a believer due to being kept in check or brainwashed.
Oh,by the way:if you want to stop religious people from studying science,you will have to stop using the work of Isaac Newton, Neils Bohr, Louis Pasteur, Johannes Kepler, Nicolaus Copernicus, Michael Faraday,Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, Andreas Vesalius, Tycho Brahe, Max Planck,Arthur Eddington, William Harvey, Carl Gauss, John von Neumann, Gregor Mendel, John Dalton, and Alexander Fleming,as they were all Christians.Are you prepared to do that? If not,stop with the superiority complex.
2007-04-03 23:30:27 · answer #1 · answered by Serena 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How about the BIASED scientific community that you are part of? Desperately looking in every possible corner to find proof that God does not exist?
What scientific method do you use to analyze love? Not the hormonal love of "guy meets girl", but the self-sacrificing love of a mother who cares for her kids day and night. What's the mathematical or chemical formula for that kind of love?
Even scientists crucify each other. It was not so long ago that one scientist claimed that stomach ulcers come from bacterial infection-- and he was rejected by the scientific community. Nowadays no one claims anymore that stomach ulcers only come from stress. They have even given the bacteria that causes the ulcer a nice Latin or Greek name.
2007-04-04 00:04:07 · answer #2 · answered by pinkrose 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it wouldn't be better. For a really good example go to the old testament and look up the 10 plagues that God spilled on to the Egyptians when Pharaoh tried to stop Joseph and the Jews when they left Egypt. It is a great example of science and spiritual events working hand in hand.
Great question!
Peace
2007-04-03 23:30:09 · answer #3 · answered by JOHN 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nowadays many scientists are staunch believers in God. Science is always like the letter 'C' whereas spirituality is like the letter 'O" full. In science there will always be imponderables since scientist on their own can not create a new element or force. They can convert one source of energy to other source.They will add some to form a new compound etc. Science pertains to logic and observation. Spirituality comes under meta physics and hence scientists can not research in the region of spirituality or venture into it.
2007-04-03 23:38:28 · answer #4 · answered by nagarajan s 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Communists like Pol Pot and Stalin, and Dictators used fear and torture to keep the masses in check for years now, so let us ban all governments too. Communist governments have burned Bibles and Christians both. You can still be imprisoned in China for being a Christian.
Science also offers much evidence for a creator that many disbelievers refuse to look at too. I guess it works both ways. Why not blame those that abuse religion and government, instead of blaming the whole pot.
2007-04-03 23:32:21 · answer #5 · answered by mark g 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is what Spiritually intelligent people teach people in religions:
Create a private, personal, direct, divine Relationship with Our Creator and save your Soul from religion.
Only with Our Creator's Love and Peace will we be Truly Free!
Love and Believe in Our Creator;
Love and Believe in Yourself.
"religion is Spiritual fraud"; "religion is the Worse invention of humanity" - Jesus Christ, Buddha and any other being with Spiritual intelligence.
Without God, there is No Love; Without religion, there are No Wars!
2007-04-03 23:30:23 · answer #6 · answered by drwooguy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You would deny information to Christians simply because it 'gets them upset'? That's like not teaching racists about religion because it 'gets them angry'. Information should be available to everyone, especially in schools. How can anyone learn to see the other side of things if they don't know anything about the other side?
2007-04-03 23:27:07 · answer #7 · answered by Notherenow 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Dude who plays the organ in my church has a Doctorate in Quantum Physics
2007-04-03 23:32:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you fear the Christians "getting upset because science offers evidence of things contrary to what they believe" so much as you fear them finding support for their faith and being able to refute you with your own scientific jargon and theoretical fallacies.
2007-04-03 23:30:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Attention is living; inattention is dying.
The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already.
-Dhammapada 21, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Being close minded in either case is death.
Namaste
Peace and Love
2007-04-04 09:14:44 · answer #10 · answered by digilook 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋