SCIENCE MINDED PERSONS - please answer?

Question

what attracted you to science, was it a failure of proof in religion like it was for me, or do u believe in religion while keep an open mind to science at the same time. or do you perfer science over religion and how has it changed your life?
athiest? agnostic? skeptic?

what is your favorite topic in science, and a brief explanation about why. whos is your favorite scientist. throughout history there have been great people whos hard work changed the world through there work. form contemporary scientists of the enlightenment like newton, or classical philosiphers like plato. or my personla hero Carl Sagan who brought the Cosmos to everyone, with the idea "we are a way for the cosmos to know its self

i would like to hear your thoughts

Answer 1

What attracted me to science was curiosity, and the fact that though it, events that would appear "magic" were explainable and reproductible. That had a lot of weight. Growing up in an environment that was religious, where religion clases were mandatory, where we were always told about sins, hell and salvation, I came to realize that if I was to do something improper, god who was supposed to be all mighty and omniscient *had to have made me do it*, ergo that god is either a complete sadist wo rejoiced in condemning people he created they way they are (since he is omnipotent and omniscient, he made me that way, and there is no such thing as free will) or did not care at all about the universe (hence organized religions had no ground to see I should do this or that) or simply did not exist, and through sheer power of logic, I broke off the brain washing hold religion had on me. I was free.
So, atheist, agnostic or skeptic? A little bit of all 3 at the same time, those are not mutually incompatible.

My favorite topic in science would be physics, because it tries to see what things are at the limit. I have a keen interest to see if some working theory could be devised that would allow something as fantastic as faster than light travel (it is a mighty big universe out there, not being able to go and experience it would be terribly disappointing).
My favorite scientists is Richard Feynman. Not only he was a total genius, he managed to bring people around him a bit higher up on the enlightement scale. Reading Feynman's teachings make people a wee bit less stupid, and that can never be a bad thing. And he was also a practical joker, with varied interests, an overactive mind always curious. What is not to like about Feynman, except the fact that he is dead now (and terribly missed)?
It seems you miss Carl Sagan a great deal (I know I do), for more in the same vein, look what Neil deGrasse Tyson is doing these days; he is the next Sagan, me thinks. So we are never totally alone--one great person falls, and we have another great one coming along, fortunately.

Answer 2

I have always been fascinated with how things work, with logic, and with reasoned thinking. Your contrast with religion is absurd. You should want to know the truth about God, and you should be able to figure out that this truth won't come from science. Plato was interesting, but to disconnected from reality to hold my interest for long. Carl Sagan spoke much more hyperbole than he spoke science, so he's at the bottom of my list. It's hard to pick a favorite scientist, but the author of the reference is probably the one most relevant to your question. He's the head of the Human Genome Project.

Answer 3

Hi, well I loved learning how things worked. No matter where you go or what you do there is science. I really began my curiosity when I was about 7. I began to realize that the religious things I was told did not logically make sense. This made me want the truth and I got it! I do believe there is a god but the whole he is the Creator and Jesus was his son to me is not the truth. My mom use to get mad when my brothers and I said the bible was wrong. I am agnostic believeing there is some "god" but not in the organized religion part.

My favorite science.... that is tough. I love all science except maybe parts of chemistry. I like physics, biology, and enviromental science. I really love astronomy more then anything. Space just fasinates me like you can't believe. But I love the elements, their properties, how they work, what makes them the way they are just fasinates me. Sometimes I sit up in bed and just ponder theories of the universe. How it really began and how small we are compared to everything else. How people view themselves as mighty and great even though they are so insignificant in this great span of universe we live in.


My favorite scientist would have to be either Charels Darwin OR Jöns Jakob Berzelius.

We all know what Darwin contributed to the world but Berzelius was a greek scientist who founded one of the greatest elements we have: Selenium. This element is coming closer to helping HIV infected patients and contributes to so many items in our world.

Really loved this question!

Answer 4

sure, however. . . no scientist has ever been ready to end up the life of god to the extent that every other scientist has been ever been ready to end up the idea of evolution. Any Scientist who attempts to end up the life of God will hit an highbrow wall and be stumped. You attempt to end up that anything IS precise as a substitute then it MIGHT be precise. So good enough, even though evolution is not precise, that does not imply that there's a scrap of proof for it being God. evolution is the probably the most easiest topics studied in technology at university. God isn't taught in technology. Evolution is a systematic idea, consequently we're wholly ready to mention that 'technology has demonstrated, 'technology says this' and so on.

Answer 5

Ditto to Frank N except I would pick Charles Townes, Nobel Prize in Physics, Templeton Prize, etc, as my "science hero".

With respect to Science and Religion see link to Townes' article on the "Convergence of Science and Religion"