Sentences with phrase «religious views of scientists»

In contrast to the situation in Egypt, where even the most Western - oriented scientist I talked to at some point or other declares himself to be «a good Muslim,» in Tunisia the personal religious views of scientists I meet hardly seem relevant.

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Many of its defenders were scientists and many of its opponents were religious, so it was easy to caricature the debates as a clash between the modern, rational, scientific view and an irrational, religious mindset.

My own view of all of this, as a practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas, and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.

In fact, some of the most print - based religious groups are the fundamentalists, who often view the scriptures reverently, much the way that some scientists view their textbooks and professional journals.

I have no problem with religious folks but you must understand that from a scientist point of view, we cant trust religious people for the simple fact that they are anti-science via their own beliefs.

They may coincide in persons who are scientists and also believers, or in private encounters between individuals, but there is no possibility of, or need for, a synthesis between our scientific and religious world views.

Whereas most scientists seem happy to adopt a view that «one can be «real» scientist without being committed to any specific religious, spiritual or anti-religious view of the world» (p. 23), Dawkins believes that science is at war with religion, and must vanquish it.

The McGraths conclude, «Dawkins is forced to contend with the highly awkward fact that his view that the natural sciences are an intellectual superhighway to atheism is rejected by most scientists, irrespective of their religious views» (p. 21).

But religious conservatives did not appear to be morally mollified by this technique, and even many scientists have taken a dim view of the experiments.

Regardless of a scientist's view on their origin, they say, discovering the laws of nature requires the same scientific methods and techniques whether the researcher is a devout religious believer or an atheist.

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.