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Pt. 6

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zaiyar : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

zaiyar

2 votes NegativePositive

578 days 17 hours ago...

I have a code for you: ..|.,

watersnake6 : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

watersnake6

2 votes NegativePositive

578 days 14 hours ago...

what a pessimistic view. ^^ agreed
If we wave our hands about people will believe that I am right about THE END OF DAYS!!!!


BOGI BOGI

zaiyar : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

zaiyar

5 votes NegativePositive

578 days 10 hours ago...

^ everyone makes mistakes.

psychologyprofessor : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

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570 days 7 hours ago...

alifeva1 dis for U:

THE ARGUMENT FROM ADMIRED
RELIGIOUS SCIENTISTS
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men
disbelieve in Christian religion, but they conceal the
fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their
incomes.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

`Newton was religious. Who are you to set yourself up as superior to Newton, Galileo, Kepler, etc. etc. etc.? If God was good enough for the likes of them, just who do you think you are?` Not that it makes much difference to such an already bad argument, some apologists even add the name of Darwin, about whom persistent, but demonstrably false, rumours of a deathbed conversion continually come around like a bad smell,* ever since they were deliberately started by a certain `Lady Hope`, who spun a touching yarn of Darwin resting against the pillows in the evening light, leafing through the New Testament and confessing that evolution was all wrong. In this section I shall concentrate mostly on scientists, because - for reasons that are perhaps not too hard to imagine - those who trot out the names of admired individuals as religious exemplars very commonly choose scientists.

Newton did indeed claim to be religious. So did almost everybody until - significantly I think - the nineteenth century, when there was less social and judicial pressure than in earlier centuries to profess religion, and more scientific support for abandoning it.

In 1996, in the gardens of his old college at Cambridge, Clare, I interviewed my friend Jim Watson, founding genius of the Human Genome Project, for a BBC television documentary that I was making on Gregor Mendel, founding genius of genetics itself. Mendel, of course, was a religious man, an Augustinian monk; but that was in the nineteenth century, when becoming a monk was the easiest way for the young Mendel to pursue his science. For him, it was the equivalent of a research grant. I asked Watson whether he knew many religious scientists today. He replied: `Virtually none. Occasionally I meet them, and I`m a bit embarrassed [laughs] because, you know, I can`t believe anyone accepts truth by revelation.`

The efforts of apologists to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound of bottoms of barrels being scraped. The only website I could find that claimed to list `Nobel Prize-winning Scientific Christians` came up with six, out of a total of several hundred scientific Nobelists. Of these six, it turned out that four were not Nobel Prize-winners at all; and at least one, to my certain knowledge, is a non-believer who attends church for purely social reasons. A more systematic study by Benjamin Beit- Hallahmi `found that among Nobel Prize laureates in the sciences, as well as those in literature, there was a remarkable degree of irreligiosity, as compared to the populations they came from`.52

psychologyprofessor : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

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570 days 7 hours ago...

^continued…

A study in the leading journal Nature by Larson and Witham in 1998 showed that of those American scientists considered eminent enough by their peers to have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to being a Fellow of the Royal Society in Britain) only about 7 per cent believe in a personal God.53 This overwhelming preponderance of atheists is almost the exact opposite of the profile of the American population at large, of whom more than 90 per cent are believers in some sort of supernatural being. The figure for less eminent scientists, not elected to the National Academy, is intermediate. As with the more distinguished sample, religious believers are in a minority, but a less dramatic minority of about 40 per cent. It is completely as I would expect that American scientists are less religious than the American public generally, and that the most distinguished scientists are the least religious of all. What is remarkable is the polar opposition between the religiosity of the American public at large and the atheism of the intellectual elite.54

RICHARD DAWKINS, THE GOD DELUSION

52
Beit-Hallahmi and Argyle (1997).

53
E. J. Larson and L. Witham, `Leading scientists still reject God`, Nature 394, 1998, 313.

54
http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9610/reeves.html gives a particularly interesting analysis of historical trends in American religious opinion by Thomas C. Reeves, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, based on Reeves (1996).

*
Steer, R. (2003). Letter to an Influential Atheist. Carlisle: Authentic Lifestyle Press.

Here is a link to Richard’s book:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/d31dd760-c3f0-4318-8dd2-d00fb91799eb/Richa

rd.Dawkins.-.The.God.Delusion.(2006)

stbasdf : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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2 votes NegativePositive

570 days 6 hours ago...

why is alifev so focused on isaac newton being religious. no one ever said he wasn`t. people can choose their own beliefs.

low vote for being lame in his own uploads. this history channel segment has been posted on spiked at least twice in the last few years too

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