Scientists on Religion

  • Thread starter Thread starter Charlemagne_III
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
**George Smoot **Physicist Nobel Prize

“There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.”
 
G.W. Leibniz Mathematician, Philosopher

“Not even by supposing the eternity of the world can we escape the ultimate, extramundane reason of things, i.e., God.”
 
**Albert Einstein **Physicist Nobel Prize

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
 
Olinthus Gregory Mathematician

“We do not deny that the scheme of revelation has its difficulties: for if the things of nature are often difficult to comprehend, it would be strange indeed if supernatural matters were so simple, and obvious, and suited to finite capacities, as never to startle or puzzle us at all. Origen remarked, with his usual sagacity, that “he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it as are found in the constitution of nature:” and this obviously suggests the reflection, that he, who denies the Bible to have come from God on account of these difficulties, may, for exactly the same reason, deny that the world was formed by him.”
 
**Blaise Pascal **Mathematician

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”

“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”
 
tonyrey said:
The respectability of science was conferred by Christianity with two fundamental tenets: the validity of reason and the intelligibility of reason based on one simple but profound statement by Jesus:

In other words the reality of Design…
Click to expand...
D… Design. You can’t write that 😃 It would imply that God was directly involved in the creation of life. Which He was/is.

Ed
 
**George Ellis **Mathematician

“To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally different order of reality or being, not restrained within the bounds of the Universe itself.”
 
Francis Collins Director Human Genome Project

“By investigating God’s majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.”

“…science is powerless to answer questions such as ‘Why did the universe come into being?’”
 
**John Suppe **Geologist

“Some non-scientist Christians, when they meet a scientist, feel called on to debate evolution. That is definitely the wrong thing to do. If you know scientists and the kinds of problems they have in their lives: pride, selfish ambition, jealousy; that’s exactly the kind of thing Jesus talked about, and which he came to resolve (by His death on the cross).
Science is full of people with very strong egos who get into conflicts with each other…The gospel is the same for scientists as for anyone. Evolution is basically a red herring. If scientists are looking for meaning in their lives, it won’t be found in evolution.”
 
John Hall Gladstone Chemist

From his biography of chemist Michael Faraday:

“When his faculties were fading fast, he would sit long at the western window, watching the glories of the sunset; and one day, when his wife drew his attention to a beautiful rainbow that spanned the sky, he looked beyond the falling shower and the many-colored arch, and observed, “He hath set his testimony in the heavens.” On August 25, 1867, quietly, almost imperceptively, came the release. There was a philosopher less on earth, and a saint more in heaven.”
 
Guy Consolmagno Astronomer

“For what it’s worth, in my experience astronomers are more likely than biologists to be believers. But several surveys, more scientific than my anecdotal experiences, have confirmed that in academic settings, the real atheists are to be found in English Literature departments.”
 
Edward Hitchcock Geologist

“We cannot doubt, after an examination of all the passages in the Bible where the creation is spoken of, that the sacred writers most clearly intended to teach the creation of the universe out of nothing (creation prima, vel immediate, in the language of the theologians, and not out of pre-existing materials: (creation secunda, vel mediate).”
 
**Charles Lyell **Geologist

“The disposition of the seas, continents, and islands, and the climates have varied; so it appears that the species have been changed, and yet they have all been so modelled, on types analogous to those of existing plants and animals, as to indicate throughout a perfect harmony of design and unity of purpose. To assume that the evidence of the beginning or end of so vast a scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to us inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations which subsist between the finite powers of man and the attributes of an Infinite and Eternal Being.”
 
Charlemagne_III said:
**John Suppe **Geologist

“Some non-scientist Christians, when they meet a scientist, feel called on to debate evolution. That is definitely the wrong thing to do. If you know scientists and the kinds of problems they have in their lives: pride, selfish ambition, jealousy; that’s exactly the kind of thing Jesus talked about, and which he came to resolve (by His death on the cross).
Science is full of people with very strong egos who get into conflicts with each other…The gospel is the same for scientists as for anyone. Evolution is basically a red herring. If scientists are looking for meaning in their lives, it won’t be found in evolution.”
Click to expand...
Nevertheless, it gets brought up here all the time. Without the herring part:)

Ed
 
**J.B.S. Haldane **Primordial Soup Theory

“It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.”

“Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he’s unwilling to be seen with her in public.”
 
Emanuel Swedenborg Inventor, Engineer

“All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.”
 
edwest2 said:
The respectability of science was conferred by Christianity with two fundamental tenets: the validity of reason and the intelligibility of reason based on one simple but profound statement by Jesus:
Click to expand...
I have written it, Ed.👍
It would imply that God was directly involved in the creation of life. Which He was/is.
Click to expand...
I fail to see the problem… :confused:
Click to expand...
 
Peter Agre Physician, Molecular Biologist Nobel Prize

“Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.”
 
E.T. Whittaker Mathematician, Astronomer

“There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.”
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top