How many scientist oon here are Atheist and believe in evolution, or the Big Bang cosmology or ...?

Question

that the earth is 4.6 billion yrs old

Answer 1

Me--I guess I'm agnostic really, but leaning towards atheism. Postulating a god doesn't help us to better predict the phenomena we observe, so why bother with it? Both evolution (ie the origin of species by natural selection) and the big bang (ie standard model of cosmology) predict very nicely the observed phenomena, so I believe in them at least as effective theories.

Answer 2

What about scienctists that aren't atheist and believe in evolution or the big bang cosmology or that the earth is 4.6 billion years old. Why is it that everyone assumes that religious people are so against science?

Answer 3

Is there any option? If you're not an atheist, you may believe "God did it". If you're an atheist, though, you have no god to fall back on, so you're left with just pure science. You would have to be a brave scientist indeed to dismiss some of the best supported theories ever. There are virtually no reputable scientists, agnostic or otherwise, who seriously question evolution.

William D: I just read your profile and I see that you have no PhD, and you do no research (which are the qualifications by which you can legitimately call yourself a "scientist"). A 30 year old bachelors degree in physics does not exactly make you an expert in biology.

Let's narrow it down. There ain't nobody with a PhD in biology and a job that argues against common decent.

Answer 4

I'm not an atheist. I used to be, before I knew any better. I was an agnostic, then in college an atheist, then an agnostic again, then I became a deist in the sense that I was sure that there was some force acting in my life that was good and was not "natural", then I became Christian. That was over 30 years ago. I'm still certain God is real and I'm still certain that he came into this world as Jesus. I know that many scientists don't believe this. That's too bad.

In response to ChrisIsGirly. I'm a scientist and I do not believe in evolution in the sense that most scientist want to claim it today. Sure, evolution exists on a small scale. There's no denying that over centuries finches will adapt to their environment and certain traits will be favored over others. That's similar to the selective breading that man has done with domesticated animals. But there is no evidence that one species ever "evolved" into another.

Answer 5

You are apparently presuming they are mutually exclusive...god and science. I think that is a faulty presumption.

Why would a god not work her wonders through the very laws she passed for the universe? That is, for example, why would she not set evolution into motion, or why would she not cause two parallel universes to collide and create the BB?

Perhaps you are confusing belief in some sort of god with belief in the Quran, Torah, Bible, and other similar books of faith. These scriptures are man written manuscripts espousing religions made to mankind's rules and ethos. They are more about wielding power through priests, imams, ayatollahs, rabbis, ministers, and such, than anything else.

Any relation between these poorly written and internally inconsistent manuscripts and some sort of god head is purely coincidental. Believing they somehow represent the word of god is the height of folly.

Bottom line, if there be a god, she will likely work her wonders through the very laws she created...through nature if you will. Further, she is probably appalled about the things done in her name as it is written in those man made and self serving scriptures.

Answer 6

>Why is it that everyone assumes that religious people are so
>against science?

Let's see.
Sam Huckabee
Rick Santorum
Discovery Institute
Bill Frist
Jerry Falwell (RIP)
Exodus International
George Bush

How are those for reasons? It wouldn't be hard to find a whole lot more.