And yet many of the world's greatest scientists still believe in God. They sure haven't read any books.
Dotnet saves the day again.
Nice one, btw. Very complete compilation.
I don't really care about your statistics because nothing you just said refutes what I said in any way shape or form. I never said "All of the greatest scientific minds in the history of the world have believed in God" and I never will. "Many" doesn't imply any kind of a number or percentage whatsoever.No. That statement is basically assumption. Hawking doesn't believe (Prominent physicist). Neither does Michio Kaku (Another prominent physicist). Einstein did, but he's dead (Pantheist). Most physicists, biologists, and geneticists don't exactly believe. Richard Dawkins is an Atheistic. Collins believes in a god, he's an evangelical, but he's among the four percent of scientists who are evangelical, obviously among the minority. Carl Sagan was Agnostic.
This was a survey done on the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Of the scientists, men are less inclined to believe. In the 65+ years range, the study yielded that 48% don't believe in either a god or a universal power. Physicists who are Atheistic are the majority. Those involved in Geosciences are the most Atheistic at 47% atheists/agnostics. On average, 41% of all scientists surveyed are atheistic/agnostic 18% believe in a higher power, 33% believe in a god. The majority in that group is atheistic.
I'm inclined to believe that you're going to defend your position by asking for my source for these statistics.
http://www.pewforum.org/Science-and-Bioethics/Scientists-and-Belief.aspx
I'm also inclined to believe that you have put little to no thought into that statement.
Pffft. Hawking doesn't believe in silicon heaven either. If I were to meet him in person, the first question I would ask him is "If there's no silicon heaven, where do all the calculators go?"No. That statement is basically assumption. Hawking doesn't believe (Prominent physicist).
This.It is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of a higher power.
It's symbolic actually.wear magic underwear.
yeah well it doesn't make them appear any less crazyIt's symbolic actually.
A coincidental, near global power-play?
You've missed hal's point; religion wasn't the object of his question regarding a theoretical "global power play." He was referring to the plurality of what he calls "seemingly-inexplicable things."
I like this, because it paints God as a janitor to tidy up the inconvenient gaps in our knowledge, therefore as we explain more phenomena God is closer and closer to being out of a job -- and ultimately irrelevant.
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Plumb_Drumb said:hey, would you drool all over the monitor for me, in response to dotnetbeast, in the god thread?
dude, message from our bud who did something m0tarded and now has read only access:
I hope you know that that's a terrible argument.yeah well it doesn't make them appear any less crazy
so is most of religion.I hope you know that that's a terrible argument.
If God was real, he would have never allowed us to fuck things up this bad.
I don't agree.