how many scientists believe in god?

Question

Where can I find a pole of scientists on their religious feelings?

Answer 1

Depends if you consider a creationist a scientist such as Carl Baugh. Not all are the ones who believe in a soul with an inherent qualitiy of immortality. There are others (view links below)

Answer 2

Here is a site that makes the claim that there are many Scientists that are or were Christian:

Many of the greatest scientists in history were Christians or had Biblical presuppositions. (See Appendix 1 below.)
For most of these, their faith was the driving force behind their discoveries.
True self-sustaining modern science (not just engineering, logic or mathematics) was born within a Christian society.
This collection presents over 1600 mini-biographies of scientists of the Christian faith-including scholars, mathematicians, and theologians who advanced the cause of science.

Answer 3

I've seen the following statistic in several places, but I'm not able to cite my source. 93% of members of the National Academy of Sciences (America's best and brightest) are explicit atheists. There have been numerous studies that reveal a strong positive correlation between education and atheism. There are also studies that show a positive correlation between intelligence and atheism. In both cases, the correlation is non-linear, being exponentially greater approaching the high limit.

Having said that, it is important to remember that a strong correlation does not prove a causal relation. Sorry, I can't remember my source, but it might have been Wikipedia....

Answer 4

Can you post polls in Yahoo Answers? I'm new around here.

For the count, I'm a microbiologist researcher, and yes, I do believe in God :)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a paleontologist who firmly believed in evolution (he saw enough fossil evidence first hand, and was there when Peking Man was dug up), and he was also a Catholic Jesuit priest. His writings are fascinating, and focus on God being the initiator and author of Existence, and Him using evolution as a method to (forgive my crude summary here) propel diversity of Life. He also extended his physical knowledge to speculate on "Spiritual Evolution". Teilhard was an interesting and very intelligent guy (early 1900s-1950ish).

Peace.

Answer 5

Why should it matter?

Since when was Truth subject to a popularity vote?

90%+ of the National Academy of Science are atheist, agnostic, or deist (holding that there is likely a creator, but that it created the start of the universe and then never involved itself again).

By the way, I am an atheist, so don't think I'm a theist trying to tell you to just have faith or something.

Answer 6

I suppose my field is debated as science but since I will be putting in two years at Baylor for my Psy D I will say that yes I am somewhat a scientist and yes I believe in the Gods. :)

Answer 7

Here's one from 1998

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html

Basically thats the most recent one, says that about 7% of the National Academy of Sciences believe in God.

Answer 8

Ya might want to start with the Discovery Institute, although, these people might be stretching the definition of the term 'scientist'.

Answer 9

the website i listed below seems on the up and up....maybe it will help you out...also...there is a whole bunch of awesome stuff by an Indian guy named Ravi Zacahrias...and there is a series of books that would be awesome for you called "The case for faith" "case for God" "case for Christ" by a dude named Lee Strobel. I have a couple of them...if you don't want to fork over the cash for these books hit the library or just go to a big ol' bookstore and skim over it....pretty compelling stuff

Answer 10

You talk about scientists who want to find out facts or about scientists that want to "prove" something, for example that evolution does not exist?