Not exact matches
Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science)
religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility
of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack
of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on
life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas
of God, and this is very common in all
scientists.
Jules suggests to me that as many as eighty per cent
of techies are
religious, but that this number is highly uncertain because the subject matter is taboo among most modern
scientists; it's not something we talk about in our daily working
lives.
To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental
religious vocation any more than they exist in this
life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects
of the human condition eagerly studied by social
scientists.
In this light, it is not the case that we would abandon a moral,
religious, aesthetic or political
life for a
life of doing logic, but rather, we would not leave the moral
life to the ethicists, the
religious life to the theologians and customary
religious practices, and the political
life to the politicians and political
scientists, just as we surely would not leave propositions in the hands
of the logicians.4
The author deals with the
scientist's vocation to worship God, and the impact
of technical work on his personal
life and
religious beliefs.
The Strategy
of the Genes: A Discussion
of Some Aspects
of Theoretical Biology (London: Allen and Unwin, 1957); Hardy, Sir Alister, The Biology
of God: A
Scientist's Study
of Man the
Religious Animal (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1976); by the same author, The
Living Stream: A Restatement
of Evolution and its Relation to the Spirit
of Man (London: Collins, 1965), and The Divine Flame: An Essay Towards a Natural History
of Religion (London: Collins, 1966), Vols.
Scientists have complete freedom to investigate, but decisions about the purposes science should serve involve essentially
religious questions concerning the meaning
of life and the goals
of men.
Cosmic Coincidence Einstein once wrote that for a
scientist, «
religious feeling takes the form
of a rapturous amazement at the harmony
of natural law» and that «this feeling is the guiding principle
of his
life and work.»
Paul Bettany stars as British
scientist and author Charles Darwin, a brilliant and deeply emotional man devoted to his
religious wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly, Bettany's wife in real
life) and the rest
of his family, but also somewhat increasingly removed from them.
In science, as in all other aspects
of life, a small percentage
of scientists would be crazy, or never change their views regardless
of facts or devoutly
religious never accepting anything contrary to their views and / or all
of the above.