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May someone please link a peer-reviewed scholarly journal demonstrating the existence of a god?
I would love to see this evidence that theists claim exists for their god. What more reliable source than something that has withstood the scrutiny of peer review and published?
15 Answers
- 7 years ago
First off, God exist but not in the way you think, there are civilizations out in the universe beyond what most people can comprehend so it not to far out there to think that maybe a leader of one of these civilizations put us on this planet for some reason and somewhere down the line in earths history we forgot and started to think that they were gods or the leader was god and those with him were angels, Just one of the Theories I have so I'm not saying I believe or don't believe what I just said. But the god in the Bible does not exist period.
- Old Man DirtLv 77 years ago
I wish you understood what the term peer reviewed means. It adds no credibility to a work because that means it was reviewed by some one who already agrees with the premise.
Because that is what it means any work by a creationist, YE or intelligent design paper was more then likely peer reviewed if for not other reason that the person using or citing that work is a peer.
- 7 years ago
God cannot be measured. Where would you begin? Where is the peer review for nirvana? You can find peer reviews of the mental effects of it, but no such thing as actual physical nirvana or enlightenment.
Scientists don't waste their time with the concept of disproving God or gods, there is no place to start. Only folks like you find it interesting.
- 7 years ago
I don't think there is any work like that. The existence of god/gods are hard to prove or disprove especially with religious documents. If god wanted us to know about the entity that is god, god would make it so that every living thing is aware of gods existence. Seeing as there are atheists, I doubt god cares about gods image or what people and possibly other species (aliens) think about god. If god is real but doesn't care then it doesn't matter what we think about god. But if god is real and does care then god would've made it so that we all are aware of god.
I hope you understand what I am getting at.
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- Anonymous7 years ago
Now this is what I call the most important question that I've seen here. There is no room for excuses. I can't wait to study the journal.
- SaraLv 77 years ago
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Av71k...
I asked this question concerning Einstein's friend and colleague Kurt Godel.
Here's the original link to ABC news: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/computer-scientis...
- ANDRE LLv 77 years ago
Sir — The question of religious belief among US scientists has been debated since early in the century. Our latest survey finds that, among the top natural scientists, disbelief is greater than ever — almost total.
Research on this topic began with the eminent US psychologist James H. Leuba and his landmark survey of 1914. He found that 58% of 1,000 randomly selected US scientists expressed disbelief or doubt in the existence of God, and that this figure rose to near 70% among the 400 "greater" scientists within his sample [1]. Leuba repeated his survey in somewhat different form 20 years later, and found that these percentages had increased to 67 and 85, respectively [2].
In 1996, we repeated Leuba's 1914 survey and reported our results in Nature [3]. We found little change from 1914 for American scientists generally, with 60.7% expressing disbelief or doubt. This year, we closely imitated the second phase of Leuba's 1914 survey to gauge belief among "greater" scientists, and find the rate of belief lower than ever — a mere 7% of respondents.
Leuba attributed the higher level of disbelief and doubt among "greater" scientists to their "superior knowledge, understanding, and experience" [3]. Similarly, Oxford University scientist Peter Atkins commented on our 1996 survey, "You clearly can be a scientist and have religious beliefs. But I don't think you can be a real scientist in the deepest sense of the word because they are such alien categories of knowledge." [4] Such comments led us to repeat the second phase of Leuba's study for an up-to-date comparison of the religious beliefs of "greater" and "lesser" scientists.
Our chosen group of "greater" scientists were members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Our survey found near universal rejection of the transcendent by NAS natural scientists. Disbelief in God and immortality among NAS biological scientists was 65.2% and 69.0%, respectively, and among NAS physical scientists it was 79.0% and 76.3%. Most of the rest were agnostics on both issues, with few believers. We found the highest percentage of belief among NAS mathematicians (14.3% in God, 15.0% in immortality). Biological scientists had the lowest rate of belief (5.5% in God, 7.1% in immortality), with physicists and astronomers slightly higher (7.5% in God, 7.5% in immortality).
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." Isaac Asimov