Were any of the great scientists/inventors also religious?

LongShot · Oct 18, 2003

Quote from aphexcoil:

Keep in mind that just because a genius believes in something, that it doesn't make it true -- especially in matters relating to religion.

The best thing you can do for yourself is find a personal relationship with god in your heart based on your personal life experiences and evolve that relationship with him throughout your life. You don't need a priest, bishop or rabbi to find god.

There is a force in this universe that makes things happen.

a lot of forces in this universe make things happen: which one are talking about?

now you wouldn't be referring to the "god" force would you? i dont believe this one has been quantified. care to try?

aphexcoil · Oct 18, 2003

Quote from LongShot:

a lot of forces in this universe make things happen: which one are talking about?

now you wouldn't be referring to the "god" force would you? i dont believe this one has been quantified. care to try?

Well, when I referred to "force," I didn't mean physics. I meant there is a fundamental force that sets into motion all things that we observe, experience, etc.

Someone else on this board said it better. They said that god is more of a "verb" than a "noun." I agree completely.

LongShot · Oct 18, 2003

Quote from aphexcoil:

Well, when I referred to "force," I didn't mean physics. I meant there is a fundamental force that sets into motion all things that we observe, experience, etc.

Someone else on this board said it better. They said that god is more of a "verb" than a "noun." I agree completely.

ok but you're not really contributing anything of value by this statement [assumption]. yours is just a general statement of belief. more unfounded beliefs we don't need...

Mr. Bollinger · Oct 18, 2003

The point of this thread was to prove if any of the mentioned scientists believed in "god", not if they were correct in their beliefs.

marketsurfer · Oct 18, 2003

Quote from LongShot:

surf, man is not a reasonable animal merely capable of it. these men may be scientists even great ones but that doesn't mean they're right or rational every conscious moment. the beliefs we hold are for many reasons not just the rational. they may be blinded by their emotions to reasonable truth here.

i agree. however, this does not diminish my BELIEF in a creator. in addition, it is somewhat comforting to know that many other GREAT minds think the same way.

best,

surfer

Gordon Gekko · Oct 18, 2003

[Einstein:] "Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived...Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude...which has never left me..."

BOTTOM LINE HERE = IF YOU'RE RELIGIOUS, START READING SOME SCIENCE BOOKS AND FREE YOUR MIND FROM THE RELIGIOUS PRISON IT IS IN.

Bill Gates
"Isn't there something special, perhaps even divine, about the human soul?" interviewer Walter Isaacson asks Gates "His face suddenly becomes expressionless," writes Isaacson, "his squeaky voice turns toneless, and he folds his arms across his belly and vigorously rocks back and forth in a mannerism that has become so mimicked at MICROSOFT that a meeting there can resemble a round table of ecstatic rabbis."

"I don't have any evidence on that," answers Gates. "I don't have any evidence of that."
http://www.celebatheists.com

marketsurfer · Oct 18, 2003

Quote from Gordon Gekko:

"I don't have any evidence on that," answers Gates. "I don't have any evidence of that."
http://www.celebatheists.com [/B]

ahhh, i don't think bill gates ranks with the great minds listed earlier. he would probably agree. larry ellison wouldn't.

LOL,

surfer

electron · Oct 18, 2003

Quote from ShoeshineBoy:

Copernicus, who become the symbol of the Darwinian Centennial, was a pre-Renaissance Catholic mystic and alchemist and he wrote that the Sun was "enthroned" in its divine glory even as he shattered the old earth-centric models of the universe.

Copernicus a mystic? For God's sake, the guy was a Catholic priest, he should not even be mentioned here as he 'officially' believed in God! And his uncle was a Catholic bishop! Also in his times, it is almost impossible to find any atheist or even agnostic. Those came with the advances in natural science and the Enlightment Age that followed them.

fxtrading · Oct 18, 2003

Quote from ArchAngel:
And here's an interesting snipet - Sigma Xi, the scientific honorary society, ran a large poll a few years ago which showed that, on any given Sunday, around 46 percent of all Ph.D. scientists are in church; for the general population the figure is 47 percent. So, whatever influences people in their beliefs about God, it doesn't appear to have much to do with having a Ph.D. in science. [/B]

maybe PhDs scientists like banging religious people or religious people like banging scientists - opposites attract.

or maybe the PhDs show up and think to themselves "yep no divine intervention today, ha i was right again!"

Gordon Gekko · Oct 18, 2003

i have said this many times before, but i'll say it again: even i will totally agree that not all religious people are dumb.

religion is usually something engrained (brainwashed) into people at a young age. how intelligent the person is, doesn't really matter. of course there are intelligent people who are religious.

however, i WILL SAY, religion can HINDER a intelligent person from thinking outside of tradition--which i HATE. we (man) probably would have made even more great discoveries than we have now if religion wasn't around to screw things up all this time.