Stats on religion and scientists 'nothing new' says Catholic biochemist - Behe

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Stats on religion and scientists ‘nothing new’ says Catholic biochemist

Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov 25, 2009 / 03:11 am (CNA).- Responding to an LA Times article published Tuesday regarding the lack of religious scientists in America, Dr. Michael J. Behe told CNA that the statistics were “nothing new.”
According to the LA Times article, only 51 percent of scientists in America believe in a higher power compared to 95 percent of American adults. Additionally, close to half of American scientists claim no religious affiliation while only 17 percent of American adults have no religious affiliation.
“About a hundred years ago a similar survey was taken,” said Dr. Behe, professor of Biochemistry at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Despite all of the changes and scientific advances in the last century, the old survey, says Dr. Behe, “showed roughly the same percentages.”
When asked for the explanation behind the apparent lack of religious scientists, Dr. Behe told CNA that there are a variety of factors.

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Somewhere along the way, scientists lose the ability to marvel about the “why” of physical processes, in all their focus on the “how”. They cease to see the forests for the trees, so to speak. As well, atheistic prpoagana persuades susceptible students whilst they matriculate within institutes of “higher learning”. :mad: Rob
 
Me too! I’m not sure how you can be a scientist without believing in God: there is too much evidence! 49% of scientists ignore evidence?
 
This is the part of the article that should be highlighted:
Dr. Behe warned against the idea that these statistics somehow prove that increased scientific knowledge diminishes the need for religion or the belief in God. “If there was scientific evidence against it, then number of scientists who believe in God would be close to zero.”

Rather, Dr. Behe continued,“there are plenty of scientific reasons to think that the elegant machinery that has been discovered in life could not have arisen by some chance process.”

What scientists have discovered about the universe in recent decades is that “the universe is very finely tuned to support life,” Dr. Behe told CNA.

“If a person looks at the scientific evidence objectively,” said Dr. Behe, “the past half century or so it’s become much stronger pointing towards the conclusion that something outside of our universe is needed to explain what we find in our universe.”
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