Are the majority of Scientists ,actually individuals that do not really & truly believe in GOD ?

Answer 1

--NO THAT is not true!
---SOME STATISTICS TO CONSIDER:
--“Today at least 80% of the scientists who deal with biology would probably admit that biology and life are regulated by some higher power."
--“The superb order and regulation in various manifestations of life and in the basic processes at the cellular and molecular levels have strong influence on the belief that a higher power exists.”—“Journal of the American Medical Association.”
*** w94 12/1 p. 7 The 20th-Century Denial of God ***
----According to physics professor Henry Margenau, “if you take the top-notch scientists, you find very few atheists among them.”
--NO THAT is not true, here are some that have and do:
*** dx86-06 Creation ***
Artist, Russell Charles (biologist): g00 8/22 8
Barton, D.H.R. (professor of chemistry): g02 6/8 g02 6/8 7
Baumgardner, John R. (geophysicist): g04 6/22 10-11
Behe, Michael J. (biochemist): g 5/06 6; g 9/06 6, 11-12; w05 2/1 6; g04 6/22 6-7; la 16; ct 44
Block, David (astronomer): g94 4/22 29
Collins, Francis (molecular biologist): g02 6/8 8
Davies, Paul (physicist): g04 6/22 5; w98 6/15 6; g97 5/8 13; g92 7/8 28
Dembski, William A. (mathematician): g04 6/22 6
Dirac, P. (mathematician): g99 6/22 9; pe 71
Dyson, Freeman (physicist): gm 101
Einstein, Albert (physicist): ct 73-4
Giertych, Maciej (geneticist): ct 43-4
Gish, Duane T. (biochemist): g02 6/8 7
Hernández, Enrique (professor): g02 6/8 7
Hooker, Worthington, M.D.: g95 8/8 7
Hoyle, Fred (astrophysicist): w99 6/15 17; g99 6/22 8; ct 25, 41; g97 5/8 14, 16; g90 1/22 14-15
Hutton, Dr. James H. (past president of medical societies): g00 8/22 11
Jastrow, Robert (astronomer): ct 16; rs 62
Klopsteg, Dr. Paul E. (past president of science association): g00 8/22 6
Knobloch, Irving (natural scientist): w94 12/1 7
Kreider, Marlin (physiologist): w94 12/1 7
Oelschlägel, Bernd (physicist): g05 11/22 12-15
Polkinghorne, John (physicist): g04 6/22 5
Rubbia, Carlo (physicist): g98 8/8 31
Sandage, Allan (astronomer): w04 6/1 10; g04 6/22 8
Schroeder, Dr. Gerald (nuclear physicist): g04 6/22 8
Tanaka, Kenneth (planetary geologist): g 9/06 22; g03 9/22 18-21; g02 6/8 7
von Braun, Wernher (physicist): g99 6/22 9; sh 151; rs 84-5
Weinberg, Steven (physicist): ct 185
White, Robert (brain surgeon): rs 86

Answer 2

Science and a belief in God don't contradict each other, so I'm sure there are scientists in both camps. I know a guy who, before retirement, was a rocket scientist (no, I'm not kidding). This guy is so smart, it's scary. Anyway, he is an elder in the Christian congregation that I associate with. For those of you who don't know what an elder does, he's like a member of the spiritual board of directors. Elders counsel people, give public talks, lead Bible studies, and all kinds of other responsibilities. He's the only scientist I've ever known, but I think it says a lot when a rocket scientist can believe in God so deeply that he's a religious leader.

Answer 3

The key lies in 'critical thinking' skills. In the 'fuzzy' sciences, like economics and psychology, it is possible to be successful without having ever even heard of 'critical thinking'. However, in the 'hard' sciences, critical thinking is necessary. The plain fact is that religious belief cannot withstand the glaring light of critical thought... it just evaporates... poof.

Religious leaders have always known this: "There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an a** (donkey) to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed." ~ Martin Luther

About half of scientists polled, overall, profess some degree of religious 'belief'. However, when you get into the 'hard' sciences... the land of critical thinking... 'belief' declines dramatically... less than 10%. In the realm of 'elite' scientists, belief drops below 5%.

P.S.: I notice some renowned atheists in THA's list of supposed 'believer' scientists... and I also notice several pseudo-scientists, whose 'science' degrees come from theological diploma mills. And with regard to Einstein... "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world (universe) so far as our science can reveal it." ~ Albert Einstein

Answer 4

Polling Scientists on Beliefs According to a much-discussed survey reported in the journal Nature in 1997, 40 percent of biologists, physicists and mathematicians said they believed in God - and not just a nonspecific transcendental presence but, as the survey put it, a God to whom one may pray "in expectation of receiving an answer." The survey, by Edward J. Larson of the University of Georgia, was intended to replicate one conducted in 1914, and the results were virtually unchanged. In both cases, participants were drawn from a directory of American scientists. Others play down those results. They note that when Dr. Larson put part of the same survey to "leading scientists" - in this case, members of the National Academy of Sciences, perhaps the nation's most eminent scientific organization - fewer than 10 percent professed belief in a personal God or human immortality.

Answer 5

No, actually about half of all scientists believe each way - some believing in God, and some believing in The Big Bang.

Answer 6

I once heard at a Baha'i gathering that if your science and your religion do not agree there is a problem. My God is a scientist plain and simple. My universe's creation was described on 6 stone tablets (days) by Mesopotamian scribes of whom Terah the father of Abram was one. Until the human race gets over itself we are doomed to keep repeating the horrible things we perpetrated on one another since the last 6,000 years of recorded history. I am not a paid scientist but I live to learn and respect those who advance human knowledge as it will ultimately bring better understanding of the divine.

Answer 7

There is actually a group of scientists who are dedicated to proving the bible true. I was watching it on discovery channel. They found a ridge at the bottom of the red sea where it travels from one end to the other in a straight line.(moses parting the red sea) They found the skeletal remains of a cow that had milk ducts that were about 3 times larger than any other cow in Isreal as well as an acient bee colony that is still intact and producing bees dating back to something bc (land flowing with milk and honey) It's really interesting to watch.

Answer 8

Ask them what Steven Hawkings said and then read the verse in the Quran that speaks about "No time in creation"

The best minds know the Quran is from Allah SWT and there is nothing on the face of this earth or in the heavens that will ever change that but Allah SWT and he made it for us not himself so why would it be changed by anyone other than to damn their own existance here and there.

Answer 9

That's a good question. I'd bet a survey would show a pretty even split.
There are a lot of scientist that say there couldn't be life without a Creator.

Answer 10

Depends on whose polls you read.

Most physcists are atheists.

Then, there are the bogus polls conducted by disinformation specialists like the Discovery Institute, who would include your school's electrician as a scientist.

But in the end, most scientists shed their beliefs in supernatural as contradictory evidence arises.

And, to the lying theist who included Steven Weinberg's name in his list, here follows a quote from the ATHEIST Weinberg: "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would still find good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But, for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

Science bless!


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