And to add to the wonder of it, the greatest philosopher in the world today is also a theist (Alvin Platinga). What is the reason for this seemingly positive relationship between the greatest minds and God?
2007-11-23 06:53:51 · 12 answers · asked by Nick 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
well...agnosticism or atheism is a thinking man's religious choice...
people who do not think, but just accept, come in the forms of christians, jews, and muslims...
2007-11-23 06:58:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Since you have already answered your own question and will only accept an answer that will agree with you, I though I will tell it like I see it. Most of the greatest scientists in history have believed in something, whether is be God, higher power, or the unknown force of the universe. So I will turn your question around. "Why is it that most of the stupidest people in history have asked questions here on Y/A without knowing what they were talking about, understanding the words they were using, or looking for a true answer to their question"
By the same token, I am a fool for taking the time out of my life to spend 6 minutes trying to answer a question with no answer.
2007-11-23 08:21:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Given your question, probability alone seems to be the answer. If we take "theists" in the general form to mean "any belief in a divine power" (which would then include monotheism, polytheism, etc.), pantheism as the belief in "divinity all around us," and agnostic as claiming one does not know if there IS or IS NOT a divinity, THEN the ONLY excluded category is atheism.
If you say that MOST come from one of the three categories that you state AND there are only FOUR categories, then probability alone (if there are about the same amount in each category) answers your question.
It would almost be like saying "Why are most scientists men or women?" (given that there are rare hermaphrodites).
Simple, probability.
2007-11-23 07:00:44 · answer #3 · answered by Think 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Percentages? History? Most people believe in religion, thus there are more possible scientist and philosophers. And religion and history are kind to each other. Most modern scientist are atheist, or have no strong belief in a God. But, if you're talking about all time, then the early times would throw off the modern.
2007-11-23 07:20:22 · answer #4 · answered by Useless Pop Culture Reference 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
fantastically a lot actually everyone up till 2 hundred years in the past changed into, on the religion scale going from radical to atheist, a minimum of agnostic. you are able to link an unlimited type of behaviors on your similar idea. "How come over the centuries, the purely human beings eating sausage were religious? Does God like sausages?" "Why have all cowherds been religious? That could recommend that cows truly are holy." lots of those similar scientists in historic past did their proper artwork even as operating below the presumption that the earth changed into flat and the middle of the universe. i could no extra ascribe to those beliefs than i could to their faith.
2016-10-24 23:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more creative and insightful and knowing one is, the more one begins to discern Mind rather than mere matter?
"Psychoenergetic Science," Dr. William A. Tiller, http://www.tiller.org
http://www.divinecosmos.com
http://www.quantumbrain.org
"Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer
"The Field," Lynne McTaggart
"Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet
kind regards,
j.
2007-11-23 08:58:38 · answer #6 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one commonality is they all have faith in something, and are not arrogant enough to fully commit to one version of their "spiritual/scientific" beliefs.
A good thing about faith is it perpetuates the quest for knowledge. If there was truly nothing beyond this life, no sense of faith that anything exists or existed before this, would we have been driven to discover so much about it? It seems to be we would be sightly more apathetic concerning our current state.
These people do not represent the existence of God, but a concept of something unattainable that they all were driven to obtain. Scholars do not turn blind eyes to the thoughts and ideas of man, they seek answers out of the faith that one exists.
2007-11-23 07:07:47 · answer #7 · answered by M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientist have an open mind to change and a high level of acceptance of things, though a need to find something new.
2007-11-23 08:39:55 · answer #8 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They make up the majority of the population. By the way, agnostics don't believe in God and there is a correlation between intelligence and atheism/agnosticism.
2007-11-23 07:54:46 · answer #9 · answered by James 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Galileo, Newton, and Einstein believed in a higher power in the universe - something bigger than the physical plane we experience during our brief lives. There aren't any more intelligent than these three in human history.
2007-11-23 07:37:49 · answer #10 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think one's scientific ability is more or less unrelated to their religious beliefs. I suspect that we are looking at a statistical relationship here and not a causal one.
2007-11-23 07:20:59 · answer #11 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋