Scientists on Religion

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Thanks for all the enlightening quotes. Scientists throughout history have believed in God. Many quotes from them can be found at the Scientific GOD Journal: 50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in GOD

Here’s one: “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” - Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”

Many scientists are quoted at Does God Exist?. In the most recent issue: “How could a scientist achieve his goal of discovering the absolute truths that govern the natural world without the blessing of the Author of those truths? For me now the true thrill of science is the search to understand a small corner of God’s grand design, and to lay the glory for such discoveries at the Grand Designer’s feet.” - Raymond Damadian (1936-), Armenian-American physician and inventor of the MRI

And golfers, plumbers, and accountants believe in God, too!
 
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Thanks for all the enlightening quotes. Scientists throughout history have believed in God. Many quotes from them can be found at the Scientific GOD Journal: 50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in GOD

Here’s one: “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” - Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”

Many scientists are quoted at Does God Exist?. In the most recent issue: “How could a scientist achieve his goal of discovering the absolute truths that govern the natural world without the blessing of the Author of those truths? For me now the true thrill of science is the search to understand a small corner of God’s grand design, and to lay the glory for such discoveries at the Grand Designer’s feet.” - Raymond Damadian (1936-), Armenian-American physician and inventor of the MRI

And golfers, plumbers, and accountants believe in God, too!
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Thank you for the interesting contribution. God bless. 👍
 
**Robert Jastrow ** First Director of NASA’s Lunar Exploration Committee
Concerning the Big Bang:

“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.” ― Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers
 
Gregor Mendel, Augustinian priest, founder of the modern science of genetics, and a contemporary of Charles Darwin.

“The victory of Christ gained us the kingdom of grace, the kingdom of heaven. Easter is the sky banner flag, the flag of eternity, the victory blowing over the gates of the Holy City of Jerusalem.”
 
**Charles Townes **Nobel Prize Winner and Creator of the Laser

“Science and religion not only share common logic; they also share something else, namely, uncertainty. We must recognize that we do not know things for sure. Knowledge, even scientific knowledge, is less than absolute.”
 
**Joseph Murray **(1919–2012): A Catholic surgeon who pioneered transplant surgery. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990.

“I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.”
 
Robert Boyle The Father of Modern Chemistry

“The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man’s redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.”
 
Robert Millikan 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics

“I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.”
 
**Michael Faraday ** Electromagnetism

“I am, I hope, very thankful that in the withdrawal of the powers and things of life, the good hope is left with me, which makes the contemplation of death a comfort — not a fear. Such peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid?”
 
DaddyGirl said:
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”
–Stephen Hawking
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The logic here escapes me. The universe creates itself from nothing.

Is gravity nothing?
 
DaddyGirl said:
“This present-day version of God of the gaps goes by a fresh name: intelligent design. Instead, why not tally all those things whose design … reflect the absence of intelligence?”–Neil deGrasse Tyson
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What would be those things whose design suggests the absence of intelligence? :confused:
 
DaddyGirl said:
“I have **never seen the slightest scientific proof **of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.”
–Thomas Edison
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Like Einstein, Edison believed in God, but not in the personal God.

Like Einstein, he never gave a reason why the one but not the other, and it would have been absurd of him to require scientific proof of the personal God. That is a matter of Revelation, not natural theology.
 
Stanley L. Jaki Templeton Prize, Philosopher and Historian of Science,
Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and another in Theology

“All great cultures that witnessed a stillbirth of science within their ambience have one major feature in common. They all were dominated by a pantheistic concept of the universe going through eternal cycles. By contrast, the only viable birth of science took place in a culture for which the world was a created, contingent entity.”
 
**Pierre Gassendi **French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician
Molecular Theory

"But because men may yet be puzzled with the universality and constancy of this regularity, and its long continuance through so many ages, that there are no records at all of the contrary anywhere to be found; the atomic atheist further adds, that the senseless atoms, playing and toying up and down, without any care or thought, and from eternity trying all manner of tricks, conclusions and experiments, were at length (they know not how) taught, and by the necessity of things themselves, as it were, driven, to a certain kind of trade of artificialness and methodicalness; so that though their motions were at first all casual and fortuitous, yet in length of time they became orderly and artificial, and governed by a certain law, they contracting as it were upon themselves, by long practice and experience, a kind of habit of moving regularly; or else being, by the mere necessity of things, at length forced so to move, as they should have done, had art and wisdom directed them.”
 
**John Abercrombie **
Authored first textbook on Neuropathology

“The unanswerable reasonings of Butler never reached the ear of the gray-haired pious peasant, but he needs not their powerful aid to establish his sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality. It is no induction of logic that has transfixed the heart of the victim of deep remorse, when he withers beneath an influence unseen by mortal eye, and shrinks from the anticipation of a reckoning to come. In both the evidence is within, a part of the original constitution of every rational mind, planted there by Him who framed the wondrous fabric. This is the power of conscience: with an authority which no man can put away from him it pleads at once for his own future existence, and for the moral attributes of an omnipresent and ever-present Deity. In a healthy state of the moral feelings, the man recognizes its claim to supreme dominion. Amid the degradation of guilt it still raises its voice and asserts its right to govern the whole man; and though its warnings are disregarded, and its claims disallowed, it proves within his inmost soul an accuser that cannot be stilled, and an avenging spirit that never is quenched.”
 
**George R. Price **(1922–1975): An American population geneticist and atheist convert to Christianity

“Believers In Psychic Phenomena… Appear To Have Won A Decisive Victory And Virtually Silenced Opposition… This Victory Is The Result Of Careful Experimentation And Intelligent Argumentation. Dozens Of Experimenters Have Obtained Positive Results In ESP Experiments, And The Mathematical Procedures Have Been Approved By Leading Statisticians… Against All This Evidence, Almost The Only Defense Remaining To The Skeptical Scientist Is Ignorance.”
 
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716): Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, Logician, Geologist, etc.

“God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.”

“Natural religion [worship of nature] itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.”
 
Freeman Dyson quantum electrodynamics

“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.”
 
John Lennox Mathematician, Philosopher of Science

“God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very possibility of explanation, scientific or otherwise. It is important to stress this because influential authors such as Richard Dawkins will insist on conceiving of God as an explanatory alternative to science – an idea that is nowhere to be found in theological reflection of any depth. Dawkins is therefore tilting at a windmill - dismissing a concept of God that no serious thinker believes in anyway. Such activity is not necessarily to be regarded as a mark of intellectual sophistication.”
 
Fred Hoyle (British astrophysicist): “A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.” (2)

George Ellis (British astrophysicist):
“Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this [complexity] possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word ‘miraculous’ without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.”

**Paul Davies **(British astrophysicist):
“There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all…It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe…The impression of design is overwhelming”.

Paul Davies:
“The laws [of physics] … seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design… The universe must have a purpose”.

Alan Sandage (winner of the Crawford prize in astronomy):
“I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.”
 
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