Inferior as in bad scientist or inferior in that they aren’t as good as Stephen Hawking? If it’s the latter, well, we’ve just demonstrated that you can be a religious person and be a scientist.
His (Gregor Mendel’s) work was done in the 19th century. What makes you think he’d have burned his works if he had lived in modern times?
That being religious is automatically a hindrance to being a scientist? I’m sure you knew that though.
Most scientists I know are religious
If you were a scientist you might know that an anecdote doesn’t equal data.
Where’s the data that most scientists are atheists, especially “top scientists”?
I don’t know about most scientists, but here’s some data:
Why are Most Scientists Atheists If There is Evidence for Belief in God?
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I’m not a fan of that site, but they did summarize the numbers. Here’s the original survey.
The original survey seems to cover scientists from elite institutions, so we can’t say anything about scientists as a whole. If rate of disbelief is higher in those places that’s interesting in that religiosity might hold one back from scientific excellence.
Your source does a lot of rationalization. Other conclusions we can draw (but would have to test) are that a secular upbringing leads to a successful scientific career far more often than a religious upbringing. As for the marriage factor, we’d have to see about the religiosity of the spouse, since that could drive a non-believer to church.
All I can say is that at MIT, in grad school, and at Bell Labs the level of belief was far, far below national averages.
What part of “lies straight from the pit of hell” do you not understand?
There was nothing, ever said, taught , thought , or written, that wasn’t from another human being. Our beliefs are all really from them, no God or a God. Even the idea of God is part of evolution.
Scientists that don’t believe in a god or God are not against it, that is a misconception…
Objection: Assumes facts not in evidence.
Science is based on fact, trying for truth, Religion is based on faith and belief from other humans. Science doesn’t call something
Fact until it is proven. They are not against Religion that is a fallacy!
The thing about the Bible is the fact that ii is called the word of God, inspired by God and that is just the idea of some humans passed on through the years, no one can truthfully say it is of God. It can be proven that it was written and called the word of some humans.
How can someone Hate someone or something if they don’t believe it exists?
This is more information on this one site than I ever dreamed. This is about the scientists who are also Christian. And as one of them said, “No compartmentalization is needed.” (Paraphrased sentence.)
I don’t believe in the same beliefs as some of these scientists. But this was a breath of fresh air from the ignorance of some of the posts that I read at the SDMB. May it give a little light to those who think it’s either/or for science and religion:
Yes, there is. Science and religion contradict each other both in what they claim and in the type of thinking required for them. A scientist who says that is either lying about what they believe or lying (or deluding themselves) about not compartmentalizing.
Nearly all religious people compartmentalize; they have to, to function in the real world. If they don’t they’ll start doing extraordinarily irrational things that will likely get themselves or someone else killed, due to religion being so totally false and blatantly crazy. And since neither reality nor logic is going to change no matter how hard they believe, they have to use some kind of coping mechanism like compartmentalization.
That site is amazing…it makes up answers for what they can’t explain, just like mythology
Most scientists are logical and in order to believe in religion you have to suspend all logic
Of course Scientists can believe in God or a god, but there is a big gap between belief and Fact. One can believe anything, but until belief can be proven it is just that Belief. Be it religion or anything else.
Science looks for truth and doesn’t claim anything is true until proven, Religions state something is true, and don’t seem to want the facts. Many even read the Bible, but don’t stop and think about if it is true or not.
Religion to me is a tool many use to get through life. Each person sees it in a different light, hence the many religions and concepts of God or a God.
Even this guy? :dubious:
The “agenda” is called “inference to the best explanation.”