Why do scientists refuse to believe in god?

Answer 1

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In My thinking they are not considering the real meaning behind god. God does not means any religious or spiritual belief . But the nature and its rules are God . The law for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction or any other law combining all laws and every other thing of nature is god. So whether you say it or not everyone of us believes in god in some way or the other . The names are different like nature is one name , and Jesus is one name , and Siva is one name and Allah is one name but the meaning is same for every word . Hence scientist also believe in God in the name of nature.

Creation without a creator is impossible .

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Religious belief is independent of science. Scientists are not required to believe in God, and many don't.

Besides; you can't take God to a laboratory so it is up to them what they believe or not.

Some scientists do believe in God, and ethics may permeate the choices they make as scientists. For example if a scientist believes that "thou shalt not kill", they may decline to work on nuclear weapons.

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Nobody "should" believe in God. It is a personal choice. In the case of scientists, if they had a belief that the results of research work could be swayed to produce desired results by prayer, meditation or sacrifices it would negate the purpose of doing research

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many scientist have come to the conclusion that there is God. Others simply tend not to bend their elbows and look for all kind of explanations as why that is impossible. It is a matter of personal choice. If scientist were more God concius They would be aware that the science boom in the last days is something that The Bible clearly states and the heat of the last days is something that the Bible clearly states. Why do we have global warming and fast technology development? Those are two specific things the Bible mentions will come together as in the other things that has never failed. Scientist keep looking for answers to this and never come to a single conclution with many formulations Answer:and hypotesis.

I think scientists should believe in God because through God all things are possible.

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The job of a scientist is to gain an understanding into the workings of Earth's nature and the universe, through observation , experiment, mathematical proof, etc. They should do this objectively, with hard evidence, without the influence of superstition. For these reasons, scientists are generally not religious people , nor should they be. Certain scientific disiplines contradict the bible , such as evolutionary Biology, but nevertheless, Christian scientists have made great contributions in many areas.

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Check out the Francis S. Collins book called "The Language of God - A scientist presents evidence for belief."

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. is the former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He led the successful effort to complete Human Genome Project (HGP), a complex multidisciplinary scientific enterprise directed at mapping and sequencing all of the human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. President Obama has now nominated Dr. Collins to run the NIH. Source(s): http://www.genome.gov/10000779 http://www.Amazon.com/Language-God-Scientist-Presents-Evidence/dp/0743286391

Answer 2

There are plenty of people combining scientific careers with religious beliefs.

Science does not exclude the possible existence of god or gods.

Where it gets tricky is if you want to combine a literal belief in the religious texts with science.

Age of the Earth, the Ark story from the bible, things like that.

Why scientists would be more likely to refuse to believe in god is that science is about understanding and proving things.

And religion is kinda weak on actual proof.

Religion works more according the line of "it is so because we say so".

Take the order of the planets for instance. For a long time, people thought the Earth was the center of the solar system. The Christian Church liked this, b/c it had God's most important Creation - us - at the center.

Then came science, telescopes and maths.

We could see the planets better.

And a guy called Copernicus realized that it was very hard to understand how the planets were moving if the Earth was in the middle. Some of them would have to be going backwards at times. But if he put the Sun in the middle, most movements made good sense.

Planets didn't have to go in reverse to be allowed to be where they were.

The Sun in the middle was his scientific theory.

Mathematics allowed any one with enough skills to predict where a planet would be at any given time. And eventually better telescopes proved his theory right.

Religion doesn't really like that kind of self-improving, self-learning approach. You're not really "allowed" to step up and say "I have a better idea about what Jesus actually meant back then".

In science you can, assuming you can figure out a way to test and prove your theory.

Answer 3

I think that you have been watching Richard Dawkins on TV too much! The fact is that scientists, like any other profession, are split down the middle on this one. There are many many scientists (some say a large majority) who actually are practising Christians, Jews or Moslems, and certainly the greatest scientists in history - Newton, Galileo, Faraday, Einstein etc all believed in a God of some sort with the majority being Christian. However, there were some great scientists of all three Abrahamic religions with moslems being the greatest astronomers, as an example, this planet has ever seen.

While there are some scientists who simply cannot understand a belief in God and who believe, rather naively, that everything can be explained by their, often blind, faith in science (is science their 'god' then?) there are many more who, when studying the depths of natural laws, realise that the universe is far more awesome than first thought, and that a spiritual approach to their scientific understanding is not only possible, but often the only way of really understanding the universe and how it works.

From Islamic perspective
From Islamic perspective, most scientists are strong believers in God. In the golden era of Islamic civilization, almost all scientists in all branches of science were religious Muslims.

Quran says (meaning English translation):

" ...Those who fear Allah (God), among His servants, who have knowledge,..."

[Quran, chapter 35, verse 28]

In this regards, I quote here the words said by Dr. Maurice Bucaille, an eminent medical scientist and a member of the French Academy of Medicine. He is the author of the book entitled "The Bible, The Quran and Science."

"Science and Islam's close relationship with it played a tremendous role in strengthening my faith and that of scientists throughout history - even today! This is a fascinating section - do take time to explore it!"

Answer 4

Your definitions are what's confusing you.

"God" - as most religions define "him" - is outside of science ...

that is - His existence can not be proven ... nor disproved ...

Science does not exist on belief - but on testable data. Thus God is non-scientific, and so is Atheism.