Their entire life is about scientific reasoning. Believing in God is not scientific but by faith. I do believe in God, but I wonder how many scientist have "reasoned away" a relationship with God.
2007-09-05 07:30:52 · 30 answers · asked by 2fine4u 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I wonder how scientist can not believe in God. Just imagine astromers who look into deep outerspace, and the further out they are able to see, all they find is MORE SPACE! and then not be humbled by the awesomeness of the creation (and thus the creator).
Scientist can not explain most things. Most of it is theory. I just dont understand who they fail to realize that the very fact that they are even capable of "seeing" and "knowing" is by god's grace alone. Truly god is the source of all knowledge.
I think what turns scientist off is religion. not god.
2007-09-05 07:48:16 · answer #1 · answered by $0.02 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
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.
2007-09-05 07:47:47 · answer #2 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You must understand the core nature of science isn't based on authority like religion and an argument from authority holds no weight in science. Also, Einstein was deist. Evolution is a fact, an observable phenomenon, and the theory of evolution (the mechanism that explains the fact) would be very much un-recognizable to Darwin and he would be amazed at all the work that has happened in a mere few hundred years. We didn't evolve from Apes, we are Apes. Anything like Adam and Eve very likely did not exist.
2016-04-03 05:00:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well a lot of the early scientists were theologians who were just experimenting for fun...but I guess the question should be how many "scientists" are there...I mean, what is a scientist? I can do an experiment, does that make me a scientist? Or just those workign in labratories? Are science teachers scientists?
2007-09-05 07:37:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
since there are literally thousands of fields of scientific inquiry and endeavor it is difficult to say without a world wide poll on the subject, but, like non scientists, the ones who believe in god are most likely the ones who have not examined their faith. but as you rightly point out, scientists as a whole are a curious lot and therefore those who have used their reasoning skills and STILL believe in god are, i suspect, probably a very small minority.
2007-09-05 07:44:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The surveys that I have seen put it around 40%. It goes down if you go to the relavent sciences like Biology or Astrophysics. It also drops off with more advanced degrees.
The National Academy of Science, which is most of the best scientists is 93% atheist or agnostic.
2007-09-05 07:37:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Probably about the same as the Politicians in Washington, D.C.
In my opinion, you always hear or see them going to church on Easter Sunday or Christmas or some other major religious holiday, then when it is over they right back to lying to the public, then going home and counting the money they just stole from the public. Real religious people in Washington, D.C., huh?
2007-09-05 09:26:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many scientists believe in a god. Humans are quite capable of holding contradictory ideas simultaneously... besides, they just figure its called "faith" for a reason.
2007-09-05 07:48:04 · answer #8 · answered by vérité 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is a book called In Six Days which documents over 50 scientists in different fields of study that show proof of God. They all believe in Him. And mind you, the book is not exhaustive. The man who compiled the book said if you used every scientist that believed in God and why, he said it would be longer than the Bible.
2007-09-05 07:37:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
More than people think. My Grandfather is a scientist and he believes in God. He always told me that there is nothing to say that God didn't make evolution and it was OK to believe in both.
2007-09-05 07:36:41 · answer #10 · answered by melzie3 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋