should scientists .....????

Question

1)should scientists be made to swear that they will quit believing in religion / superstition ???
2)people that that 50 % of scientists believe in god ,do u think that they believe the christian god or the god who created the big bang ???

*people say that ...

Answer 1

1) This is not a question, but merely a derogatory, inflammatory statement. It says more about you than about the scientists, religious, or superstitious.

2) Your statistic is irrelevant, whether or not it is correct. The existence of God is independent of how many people, scientist or not, believe He exists. The God of the Bible isn't the Christian God or the Jewish God or the Baptist God; He is simply God.

If you really care about how science and God can be reconciled, read the reference. The author is a renowned, respected scientist, the head of the Human Genome Project.

Answer 2

1) I'm a big fan of not requiring people to swear that they will/will not follow some specific religion (and atheism pretty much is a religion just like any other... just one with fewer gods than most). I'd like scientists to keep in mind what kind of impact their research would have on society, but it really seems like a waste of time to try to force people to believe something that stands against their morals.

2) I'm not sure where you get that 50% statistic. That sounds about as made up as the fact that 74% of all other statistics are made up. Moving beyond the unsupported premise of your question, I'd ask why you assume that the Christian God (politeness requires that we capitalize the names of religions and the word "God" out of respect for the believers) is not the God who created the Big Bang (also capitalized)? Many Christians do not believe in the Big Bang because they hold an extremely literal view of the Bible's word as truth. Most Christians do not take the Bible's stories quite as literally and are completely comfortable believing that the Christian God created the world and that he could very well have used the Big Bang as the method of creation.

Similarly, many Christians have no trouble believing in both the theory of Evolution and in biblical Creation. They believe that Evolution is simlply the method that God chose to make His creation happen.

I wasn't around for the Big Bang and I don't recall God telling me directly what his method of creation was (or even that He exists), so I'm content to stay agnostic, but your second question really doesn't make sense except to people with an extremely narrow view of the world.

Answer 3

i dont think they should be forced into not beliving what they want....they can have a religion and still be scientists...i think the 50 percent of the scientists that belive in God believe in the Christian one...because now many scientists are changing their theroies made ten years ago or even longer. it is possible to find a balance between religion and science so they should not be made to swear off of their religion and supersitions

Answer 4

1) No. But they shouldn't base their research on it.
2) You'd have to ask them. But the religious scientists I know don't invoke god in their research at all. They know that religion has no place in science.

Answer 5

no... that is taking away the freedom of religion. why should your job title determine whether or not you are allowed to believe.