What are some people's views on God - atheist or not?

Answer 1

Albert Eistein: "I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."

"The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive."

" A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Thomas Jefferson: "To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul."

Modern scientists: In the United States, a survey indicated 7 percent of eminent scientists believe in God, while 40 percent of less eminent scientists believe in God. In Britain, a survey indicated that just under 5 percent of eminent scientists believe in God.

Buddha: It is neither God nor the self nor some causeless chance which creates us. It is our our deeds which produce both good and bad results according to the law of causation.

We should therefore abandon the heresy of worshipping God and of praying to him. We should stop all speculation and vain talk about such matters and practice good so that good may result from our good deeds.

CS Lewis:

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

"Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior."

"[God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God."

He exists. He doesn't exist.

Answer 2

Over 90% of the world's population believes in a Higher Power.

A few of today's famous scientists who believe in God:

1. Lawrence Krauss, World-Renowned Physicist

2. Robert Coleman Richardson, Nobel Laureate in Physics

3. Richard Feynman, World-Renowned Physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics

4. Simon Blackburn, Cambridge Professor of Philosophy

5. Colin Blakemore, World-Renowned Oxford Professor of Neuroscience

6. Steven Pinker, World-Renowned Harvard Professor of Psychology

7. Alan Guth, World-Renowned MIT Professor of Physics

8. Noam Chomsky, World-Renowned MIT Professor of Linguistics

9. Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel Laureate in Physics

10. Peter Atkins, World-Renowned Oxford Professor of Chemistry

11. Oliver Sacks, World-Renowned Neurologist, Columbia University

12. Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal

13. Sir John Gurdon, Pioneering Developmental Biologist, Cambridge

14. Sir Bertrand Russell, World-Renowned Philosopher, Nobel Laureate

15. Stephen Hawking, World-Renowned Cambridge Theoretical Physicist

16. Riccardo Giacconi, Nobel Laureate in Physics

17. Ned Block, NYU Professor of Philosophy

18. Gerard ‘t Hooft, Nobel Laureate in Physics

19. Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford Professor of Mathematics

20. James Watson, Co-discoverer of DNA, Nobel Laureate

21. Colin McGinn, Professor of Philosophy, Miami University

22. Sir Patrick Bateson, Cambridge Professor of Ethology

23. Sir David Attenborough, World-Renowned Broadcaster and Naturalist

24. Martinus Veltman, Nobel Laureate in Physics

25. Pascal Boyer, Professor of Anthropology

26. Partha Dasgupta, Cambridge Professor of Economics

27. AC Grayling, Birkbeck Professor of Philosophy

28. Ivar Giaever, Nobel Laureate in Physics

29. John Searle, Berkeley Professor of Philosophy

30. Brian Cox, Particle Physicist (Large Hadron Collider, CERN)

31. Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Laureate in Physics

32. Rebecca Goldstein, Professor of Philosophy

33. Michael Tooley, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado

34. Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

35. Leonard Susskind, Stanford Professor of Theoretical Physics

36. Quentin Skinner, Professor of History (Cambridge)

37. Theodor W. Hänsch, Nobel Laureate in Physics

38. Mark Balaguer, CSU Professor of Philosophy

39. Richard Ernst, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

40. Alan Macfarlane, Cambridge Professor of Anthropology

41. Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson, Princeton Research Scientist

42. Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Laureate in Physics

43. Hubert Dreyfus, Berkeley Professor of Philosophy

44. Lord Colin Renfrew, World-Renowned Archaeologist, Cambridge

45. Carl Sagan, World-Renowned Astronomer

46. Peter Singer, World-Renowned Bioethicist, Princeton

47. Rudolph Marcus, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

48. Robert Foley, Cambridge Professor of Human Evolution

49. Daniel Dennett, Tufts Professor of Philosophy

50. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics

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