Who Are The 'Great Scientists . . . . Known To Be Very Religious'?

Question

I was reading some of the responses to the following question:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Asm5oShi5pt.qfGm2XRhFyFFLxV.;_ylv=3?qid=20070929095842AALjrXx

and one individual stated that 'great scientists are known to be very religious persons'.

Obviously before the 19th century you are unlikely to find many scientists who claim to be agnostic/atheist due to the very real threat of judicial punishment that they would be subjected to.

However, I cannot think of any 'great' scientist since the mid 19th century who was 'very religious'. For example, Darwin died a convinced atheist despite the claims of 'Lady Faith' who maliciously stated that he recanted his theory of evolution on his deathbed. Einstein also was a non-believer as can clearly be seen in his many letters on the subject and indeed the hate mail he received from certain religious groups in America. For details of this read Chapter 1 of the God Delusion.

Who then are these 'Great Scientists'?

Rambo: Darwin did not reject evolution but he did state that he rejected the teachings of the bible. As for Stephen Hawkings being religious, this is just a lie. Hawkings, like Einstein, uses the term 'God' as a metaphor for that part of nature which is still not full explained. Again, read Chapter 1 of The God Delusion.

Moglai: Your understanding of history is very suspect. Newton and those others on your list lived well before the mid-19th century!

Answer 1

There was research done into IQ and religiosity that showed the higher the IQ the less religious a person was, with the majority of field leading scientists being atheists.

http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/sci_relig.htm

http://oleeichhorn.com/posts/031226a-religion_vs_IQ.html

Newton was however a really devout Christian and left his scientific research to study the bible, and do other religious stuff.

http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html

Einstein didn't believe in god.

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 so far as our science can reveal it. (Albert Einstein, 1954)

Answer 2

I don`t know of any religious scientist of note. I do however know that some eminent research scientists do believe that there is a god. As to Darwin, Rambo is in fact at least in part correct. Darwin did release a second works in which he made a great point of the fact that the first book The evolusion of Man was only a theory which he now thought to be incorrect. As to whether he repented or relented on his death bed is only pie in the sky.

Answer 3

Mendel was an augustian monk, Anton van Leeewenhoek was Dutch reformed, Carl Gaus was Lutheran, Arthur Eddington was a Quaker, Max Planck was a protestant, Erwin Schrodinger was Catholic, Lineus Pauling was Lutheran, James Clerk Maxwell was Presbyterian, Nicolaus Copernicus was a Catholic priest, Johannes Kepler was Lutheran, Neils Bohr was Jewish/Lutheran, Enrico Fermi was Catholic, Williiam Harvey was a nominal Anglican, John von Neumann was a Jewsih Catholic, Hans Beeth was Jewish, Theodosius Dobzhansky was Russian Orthodox, John Dalton was a Quaker, Carl Linnaeus was ChristianClaude Levi- Strauss was Jewish, Lynn Margulis was Jewish, Karl Landsteiner was Jewish, Alexander Flemming was Catholic, Jonas Salk was Jewish. I didn't know any of these people persoanlly so I canot know how relgious they truly were or were not. However if you google these names I think you will be sufficed to find out their contributions to science.Everything from Pencillin to Genomics to Qauntum Physics.

Answer 4

Well i don't think great scientists are religious. However, some do believe in God. Religion claims earth is about 6 thousand years old and any good scientist can tell that is wrong.

Answer 5

'Great Scientists . . . . Known To Be Very Religious' is a perfect example of the woolly twaddle served up every day here on YA by theists. All they have to throw back at atheist questioners is this type of rubbish. They bend facts about scientists, and just about everything else, to serve their truth-denying "mission".

Answer 6

Frank Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics)
Henry "Fritz" Schaefer (Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia):
Arthur L. Schawlow (Professor of Physics at Stanford University, 1981 Nobel Prize in physics)
Ed Harrison (cosmologist)

Just a few.

Answer 7

Modern day? None. Some silly people on here do give links to websites that claim otherwise. These sites have no evidence to back up these claims of course!

Answer 8

Are you saying not since the mid 19th century over 150 years there has not been one noted scientist who believed in God? Wow now ain't that something. Why do so many Christians lie about that? Don't they know its is a sin to lie?
BB

Answer 9

The only great religious scientist still living is Em Adjineri (say her name out loud.)

Answer 10

Why bother to ask this question?

All the so called Christians on here absolutely condemn science as heresy!!!!

Mind you they probably think God was to stupid to be able to use evolution as his tool and absolutely mega stupid for allowing science in the first place!!!!!