I hear atheists and scientists mocking Christians saying they have a lower IQ, and that no intelligent scientist can have faith in God.
However, my research is showing that almost all of the greatest scientists with high IQ that revolutionized our world were men of faith.
Would you say Albert Einstein was a man low IQ and lacked intelligence? Based on today's standards he would be labelled that for saying the following:
"Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith."
So how do you make sense of Einstein's faith and statement above with the massive anti-faith posture in modern science?
Annsan_In_Him2016-09-18T22:46:22Z
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You shouldn't have mentioned Einstein, for he was a deist, and every anti-God person on here will attack your question for claiming that he was "a man of faith". So here is a sample answer to your actual question about scientists alive today, who have faith in God as creator of this universe and all life in it - only a few of the British ones I know of; a complete global list would run to hundreds of pages of names.
Prof. Frank Russell Stannard, OBE - Physicist Michael Pole - Physicist Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne, KBE - Physicist Rev. Prof. Alister McGrath - Biophysicist Dr. John C Lennox - Mathematician Dr. Francis S Collins - Gene pioneer Prof. Norman C Nevin, OBE - Medial geneticist Prof. John Bryant - Molecular biologist Dr. Denis Alexander - Immunologist Dr. Christopher Southgate - Biochemist Prof. Sir John Houghton, CBE - Physicist Prof. Sir Ghillean Prance - Botanist Prof. Bob White - Geophysicist Prof. Colin Humphreys, CBE - Materials scientist Rev. Dr. Rodney Holder - Astrophysicist
The above all contributed a chapter each to the book below, they all believe God created the heavens and the earth and have no problems with current theories about them being billions of years old. Oh, and they are just a tiny few of the ones in Britain. We'd be here till the middle of next month if I tried to list theistic scientists from all over the world! Another British theoretical physicist to add to that list, Prof. Edgar Andrews, expert in large molecules, BSc, PhD, DSc, FinstP, FIMMM, CEng, CPhys. He wrote the second book detailed below. Also, Prof. Tom McLeish, Prof. of Physics, applications of physics to biology, wrote the third book below.
Einstein was talking about a general sense of awe of the universe, which any good scientist has.
And there are scientists with religious inclinations (Francis Collins would be one). I assume they are able to keep their beliefs and their work separate. It's not as if science is the only field with a potential contradiction : you have teachers who probably don't actually like children but who are good at teaching them, doctors who smoke and are in terrible shape but who are good diagnosticians, etc.
While I personally can't see how a person could reconcile being a hardcore scientist with being religious, it's their work that counts.
and that no intelligent scientist can have faith in God.
- Only idiot fundies say that.
However, my research is showing that almost all of the greatest scientists with high IQ that revolutionized our world were men of faith.
- If you did any real research you would discover that most of those "religious" people HAD to be "religious" or they would have been burned at the stake. Try actual thinking some day.
So how do you make sense of Einstein's faith
- How about if you read everything he said, you brain dead twit. And "faith" has nothing to do with religion except where they have hijacked it.
I am a Christian and a scientist, as is my wife and many other people we know; all of which vary in intelligence and wisdom. Just because someone becomes a Christian does not mean they have sacrificed their brain to God. I came as I was and just sought him. I took steps to avoid brainwashing and manipulation, but I honestly sought God. By doing so, I found him, as many others have done over the course of years.
< my research is showing that almost all of the greatest scientists with high IQ that revolutionized our world were men of faith> Has your research shown you that pronounced atheists were at best discriminated against if not ostracized from their communities in the past? You can't get an honest assessment of anyone's true beliefs when there are penalties associated with certain ones of them. Do you really think there are no atheists in Saudi Arabia, or do you think the death penalty might dissuade people from letting their true beliefs be known? And Einstein, like many people, expressed various views about god and religion at different times in his life. . .