Has science ditched God

Answer 1

It really depends on the individual scientist. Some scientist are extremely atheist or agnostic. Others are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or a number of other religions.

An example of this:

• Stephen Hawking (physicist) - Atheist
• Bill Nye (mechanical engineer) - Agnostic
• Lawrence Krauss (physicist) - Atheist
• Albert Einstein (physicist) - Jewish
• Henry F. (Fritz) Schaefer (theoretical chemist) - Christian
• Ahmed Zewail (chemistry/physics) - Muslim
• William D. Phillips (Nobel Prize in physics) - Methodist
• Arno Penzias (Novel Prize in physics) - Jewish
• Guglielmo Marconi (Nobel Prize in physics) - Catholic
• Farouk El-Baz (NASA Apollo Program) - Muslim
• Francis Collins (director of the human genome project) - Christian
• Phillip W. Anderson (Nobel Prize in physics) - Atheist
• Norman Tolk (physicist) - Mormon

Albert Einstein was quoted as saying, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Bill Nye was quoted as saying, "You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else."

Beliefs on God differ greatly throughout the modern scientific community, even among those in the same areas of study.

Answer 2

OpinionScience is a separate area of area of human activity from religion and has no interest in God(s). As a result it neither affirms or denies God(s) any more than religion "ditches" the recommended pattern for torquing the bolts on the wheels of a Jeep Cherokee.

OpinionMost mainstream science does not allow the possibility of God having been involved in any of the fields subject to scientific study. Theistic evolutionists and Creationists do allow for theories which acknowledge divine intervention and creation.

Answer 3

One can be a religious scientist; and there are some. However, the general paradigm in which Science is taught, is one of mere natural causes. Any consideration of the supernatural is dismissed offhand as "pseudoscience," without so much as a glimpse into the possibility.

Many think that science, and specifically Evolution, have proved that there is no God. They don't comprehend that even if Evolution was an unquestionable fact, it would not automatically follow that God isn't there. They also seem unaware that there are some highly-qualified scientists who do not believe in Evolution. A few examples are Jerry Fodor, Massimo Palmarini, Michael Behe, and Thomas Nagel, among others.

Link: Thomas Nagel questions Darwinism

Evolution is fraught with difficulties and it remains in fact a theory, open to dispute by people who choose to avoid ignoring its problems. It can neither be proven nor demonstrated in the lab (in its broader sense of giving rise to new organs or species).See also the Related Links.

Link: Evidence for Creation

Link: Can you show that God exists

Link: God's wisdom seen in His creations