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Science experts, do you believe in God?
I would like to know if anyone who is very educated about science believes in God/Jesus? A lot of people seem to think it's either science or religion that one can believe in...
20 Answers
- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Sure why not?
They even named the dicovery of a particle believed to be the root of all exsistance
"The God Particle" Sounds like God and science are getting along so why should we continue to debate it?
Proof that even the scientists have gotten to the point where they shrug and say "God Particle?"
...."yep sounds good to me"......
"alright then thats what we'll call it"
- Ottawa MikeLv 68 years ago
I think most scientifically oriented people are like me and are what could be considered agnostic or atheist-agnostic. That basically means that we don't believe there is any physical evidence of God (or more generally a supreme being) but that it can't be ruled out.
A supreme being is still a possibility for a scientific reason. Absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. We still don't know why we are here or what happened before the Big Bang, i.e. how the universe came to be.
For me, religion is not a problem until it is used as a source of authority.
- SpartanCanuckLv 78 years ago
I lack belief in any of the thousands of deities that humanity has worshipped (including Yaweh), though I consider it possible that Jeshua of Aramathea was a historical figure. I do know people in the sciences who have some manner of belief. Mostly, they are deists (note that Einstein fell into this category, and the deist conception of a God is vastly different from most religious perspectives) or Buddhists, it seems, though there is at least one (rather unorthodox) Catholic in the lot. Oh. And I knew a United Church of Canada minister a few years back who had a PhD in biology. In practice, he seemed to be cutting things awfully close to deism/pantheism though.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism - DrDaveLv 78 years ago
YES Einstein DID believe in God. An extremely large amount of scientists believe in God or some form of higher power. The Problem with religion today are the idiots who still worship as people did 2000 years ago. The very fact that man has decided how God created makes me laugh. Who's to say his method wasn't evolution? God didn't write the Bible. A bunch of peyote chewing, plant smoking lunatics who proclaimed themselves Apostles did. I believe in a higher power, I'll call it God. I choose not to listen to a bunch of blundering boobs to tell me what God is. I'll choose to remain humble. Todays religion is nothing more than a hindrance to the betterment of mankind. Take Christianity for instance. Look at the people they maimed, tortured, and killed for heresy in their history. Right with the Lord?
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Science and spirituality combined gives you an understanding of what life really is . There is a god but hes not a he or a she he is a source . A light where we come from .
- 8 years ago
Scientist are the people who have the true belief and faith in God. Because when they know more, they believe more.
I believe in God, Prophet Mohammed, Prophet Jesus, and all other prophets.
At the same time, I respect others regardless of their faiths. We are all humans and we should live all in peace and harmony.
- Bob D1Lv 78 years ago
("Science experts, do you believe in God?")
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Notice that in the final analysis, it was religion who had to bend and adapt to science and evolution in order to survive, not the other way around. Thus, that should provide you with a 'big hint' as to what is true.
See: How Critical Thinker Lose Their Faith in God
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=h...
Best regards
Source(s): self - Doc89891Lv 78 years ago
Well, in the first place, science and religion are not incompatible. It is quite possible to imagine a universe where both are important. But having said that, I must tell you a little bit about science. Scientists observe facts, and do observations and try to understand the fact or deduce why it exists or how it behaves, etc. That scientists personally believe or disbelieve is irrelevant. Scientists are trying to find out what is - "just the facts, please" - no speculation.
God is not a subject for scientific study.
A scientist would need to see god repeatedly, measure him, do x-rays and ultrasounds and above all conduct many interviews, make observations of him in action, etc. I use him strictly for convenience, of course. If god exists, god might be a he, or a she, or an it or a xanth or a ............ ???????
- LharveyLv 48 years ago
You can have a scientific mind and believe in a Creator. Its just that you have to expand the point of view of what that Creator did in his "Creation".
Rather than some outdated understanding from a book from the bronze age, I would simply modernize the Act of Creation as not "seven days and nights", but rather as "the Big Bang"
And once they figure out the Big Bang, The Creator simply shifts back even further to what caused THAT to make the Big Bang happen.
See? There is perfectly acceptable room for God to have a place. The controversy is more centered on how much of that Bronze Age text to hold onto.
- 8 years ago
No, I do not. I feel that there is no proof that god exists, and therefore no reason to believe in him. And if there is, please show it to me.
I don't mind if others have religious beliefs, so long as they do not interfere with others. (That includes staying out of gov't affairs)