Scientists on Religion

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George Washington Carver Botanist, Inventor

“I was just a mere boy when converted, hardly ten years old. There isn’t much of a story to it. God just came into my heart one afternoon while I was alone in the ‘loft’ of our big barn while I was shelling corn to carry to the mill to be ground into meal.
A dear little white boy, one of our neighbors, about my age came by one Saturday morning, and in talking and playing he told me he was going to Sunday school tomorrow morning. I was eager to know what a Sunday school was. He said they sang hymns and prayed. I asked him what prayer was and what they said. I do not remember what he said; only remember that as soon as he left I climbed up into the ‘loft,’ knelt down by the barrel of corn and prayed as best I could. I do not remember what I said. I only recall that I felt so good that I prayed several times before I quit.
My brother and myself were the only colored children in that neighborhood and of course, we could not go to church or Sunday school, or school of any kind.
That was my simple conversion, and I have tried to keep the faith.”
 
Joseph Priestly Discovery of Oxygen

“When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.”
 
Albert Sweitzer Physician, Nobel Peace Prize

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”
 
John William Dawson Geologist

“The science of the earth… invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.”
 
**John Ray ** Botanist, Zoologist

“There is no greater, at least no more palpable and convincing, argument of the existence of a Deity than the admirable art and wisdom that discovers itself in the make and constitution, the order and disposition, the ends and uses, of all the parts and members of this stately fabric of heaven and earth. For if in the works of art, as for example a curious edifice or machine, counsel, design, and direction to an end, appearing in the whole frame, and in all the several pieces of it, do necessarily infer the being and operation of some intelligent architect or engineer, why shall not also in the works of nature, that grandeur and magnificence, that excellent contrivance for beauty, order, use, etc., which is observable in them, wherein they do as much transcend the effects of human art as infinite power and wisdom exceeds finite, infer the existence and efficiency of an Omnipotent and All-wise Creator?”

“A wonder it must be that there should be any man found so stupid as to persuade himself that this most beautiful world could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.”
 
Albertus Magnus Discovery of the element Arsenic
Teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas

“Above all one should accept everything, in general and individually, in oneself or in others, agreeable or disagreeable, with a prompt and confident spirit, as coming from the hand of his infallible Providence or the order he has arranged.”
 
Charlemagne_III said:
John William Dawson Geologist

“The science of the earth… invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.”
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I don’t have time to go through all the quotes you have presented on this topic. I have no likes for John William Dawson (1) because he spoke against Charles Darwin whom I love! This leads me to think that you Charlemagne are a creationist whereas I am NOT in any way shape or form! As far as Intelligent Design folks that are creationists, all I have to say is, “Good-bye!”
  1. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Dawson
 
**Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ** Nuclear Physicist

“The world is built according to the creative thoughts of God, this means in mathematical harmony. Humanity, created in God’s image, is able to trace these thoughts. Natural science is divine service.”
 
Albert Einstein Theories of Relativity

“I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.” And again, on a later occasion, Einstein said “… everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe—a Spirit vastly superior to that of man.”
 
M. Scott Peck Psychiatrist, Author

“The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer from a sense of meaninglessness and insignificance because he knows he’s but one human among five billion others - all feeling themselves to be the center of things - scratching out an existence on the surface of a medium-sized planet circling a small star among countless stars in a galaxy lost among countless galaxies. The person with the sacred mentality, on the other hand, does not feel herself to be the center of the universe. She considers the Center to be elsewhere and other. Yet she is unlikely to feel lost or insignificant precisely because she draws her significance and meaning from her relationship, her connection, with that center, that Other.”
 
**ROBERT MILLIKAN **Nobel Laureate in Physics:

“It pains me as much as it did Kelvin ‘to hear crudely atheistic views expressed by men who have never known the deeper side of existence.’ Let me, then, henceforth use the word God to describe that which is behind the mystery of existence and that which gives meaning to it. I think you will not misunderstand me, then, when I say that I have never known a thinking man who did not believe in God.”

“To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.”
 
ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER Nobel Laureate in Physics:

“I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously.”
 
WALTER KOHN Nobel Laureate in Chemistry:

“There are essential parts of the human experience about which science intrinsically has nothing to say. I associate them with an entity which I call God.”
 
George Wald Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology

"It has occurred to me lately - I must confess with some shock at first to my scientific sensibilities … that Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and condition of physical reality - that the stuff of which physical reality is composed is mind-stuff. It is Mind that has composed a physical universe that breeds life, and so eventually evolves creatures that know and create.”
 
Arno Penzias Nobel Laureate in Physics.

“The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I had nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.”
 
**Sir John Eccles ** Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology:

“There is a Divine Providence over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.”
 
Arthur Compton Nobel Laureate in Physics

“For myself, faith begins with the realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence."
 
Michael Behe Biochemist

“It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.”
 
William A. Dembski Mathematician

“Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.”
 
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