Scientists on Religion

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**Stephen C. Meyer ** Geophysicist

“Though the designing agent responsible for life may well have been an omnipotent deity, the theory of intelligent design does not claim to be able to determine that. Because the inference to design depends upon our uniform experience of cause and effect in this world, the theory cannot determine whether or not the designing intelligence putatively responsible for life has powers beyond those on display in our experience. Nor can the theory of intelligent design determine whether the intelligent agent responsible for information life acted from the natural or the “supernatural” realm. Instead, the theory of intelligent design merely claims to detect the action of some intelligent cause (with power, at least, equivalent to those we know from experience) and affirms this because we know from experience that only conscious, intelligent agents produce large amounts of specified information.”
 
**Dr. Ben Carson ** Brain Surgeon

“I had an opportunity to have a debate publicly with Don Johanson, the famous archaeologist…who discovered Lucy, the so-called missing link. And he shows this all over the world, you know, this little skull with a protruding mandible and a receding forehead…and I said, you know, I’m a neurosurgeon, and I operate on a lot of people who have, you know, deformed skulls and things, and eventually they die and they get buried and years later somebody like you comes along and finds their skull and says they found the missing link. … Why is there only one of them? Why isn’t there a whole colony of them? How can you dig up this one little thing and then extrapolate?”
 
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Paleontologist

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
 
**Nicholas of Cusa ** Astronomer

“Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.”
 
**Sir Ernst Chain ** Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology:

“As far as my own actions are concerned, I am trying to be guided by the laws, ethics and traditions of Judaism as formulated in the Old Testament, which are, of course, also the basis of Christianity. I am convinced, and have been for many years, that it is impossible to construct a sort of absolute and generally applicable code of ethical behaviour on the basis of scientific knowledge alone, if only for the reason that our knowledge about the basic problems of life is far too fragmentary and limited, and will always remain so."
 
Frederick Rossini Thermodynamicist

“The point of all of this is that our creator has fashioned laws that are deep seated and broadly applicable, that science is heavily intertwined in our everyday life, frequently without our realization, that we need to break down the compartmentalization of knowledge, that we need to work for a unification of learning, and that we need to understand better the meaning and purpose of life.”
 
**Max Planck ** Nobel Laureate in Physics

“Religion represents a bond of man to God. It consists in reverent awe before a supernatural Might, to which human life is subordinated and which has in its power our welfare and misery. To remain in permanent contact with this Might and keep it all the time inclined to oneself, is the unending effort and the highest goal of the believing man. Because only in such a way can one feel himself safe before expected and unexpected dangers, which threaten one in his life, and can take part in the highest happiness - inner psychical peace - which can be attained only by means of strong bond to God and unconditional trust in His omnipotence and willingness to help."
 
Stanley Jaki Physicist and Philosopher of Science

“No true worship is deserved by a God who is the product of a cosmic process, let alone the distillation of a process theology. The only God who deserves a proper cult, which is worship, is much more than the Creator who brings forth the universe out of nothing . . . by real cult I mean a religion steeped in Revelation and in particular in the Christian Revelation.”
 
William James Psychologist, Philosopher

“It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.”
 
**William Foxwell Albright ** Archeologist

“The excessive skepticism shown toward the Bible by important schools of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, certain phases of which still appear periodically, has been progressively discredited. Discovery after discovery has established the accuracy of innumerable details, and has brought increased recognition to the value of the Bible as a source of history.”
 
Jennifer Wiseman Astronomer

“I think it’s exciting as Christians to go exploring, because we’re never going to find anything that’s outside of God’s realm. Everything is part of this majestic creation, and the more you discover the more amazed you get by thinking about God.”
 
Kenneth R. Miller Cell Biologist

“From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the ‘Big Bang,’ people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.”
 
Joseph Lister Surgeon

“I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.”
 
**Samuel Morse **Inventor of Telegraph and Morse Code

“Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.”
 
William Prout Chemist

“The poor untutored savage ‘sees God in every cloud, and hears Him in the wind.’ The complacent philosopher smiles at the credulity of the savage, and perhaps deifies the ‘laws of nature.’ Both are alike ignorant; nor is the imagined Supreme Being of the untaught savage in any degree more absurd than the imagined Pantheism of the philosopher.”
 
William Ramsay Chemist, Nobel Prize

“Christianity is the religion of an educated mind.”
 
Bernhard Riemann Mathematician

Bernhard Riemann’s tombstone in Biganzolo (Italy) refers to Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
 
Joseph Taylor Physicist, Nobel Prize

“A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.”
 
Nevill Mott Physicist, Nobel Prize

“Neither physical science nor psychology can ever ‘explain’ human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.”
 
**William Whewell **Mathematician, Scientist

“Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.”
 
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