Snare and Racket,
Were you aware that your mind-limiting materialist views are a minority among scientists? About two-thirds of scientists believe in God, according to a new survey by sociologists from Rice University.
Great Scientists who believed in God are manifold: Here's a partial list of some Noble Laureates just in the past hundred years:
PART I. Nobel Scientists (20-21 Century) | ||
Albert Einstein | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Jewish |
Max Planck | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Protestant |
Erwin Schrodinger | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Catholic |
Werner Heisenberg | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Lutheran |
Robert Millikan | Nobel Laureate in Physics | probably Congregationalist |
Charles Hard Townes | Nobel Laureate in Physics | United Church of Christ (raised Baptist) |
Arthur Schawlow | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Methodist |
William D. Phillips | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Methodist |
William H. Bragg | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Anglican |
Guglielmo Marconi | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Catholic and Anglican |
Arthur Compton | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Presbyterian |
Arno Penzias | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Jewish |
Nevill Mott | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Anglican |
Isidor Isaac Rabi | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Jewish |
Abdus Salam | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Muslim |
Antony Hewish | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Christian (denomination?) |
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Quaker |
Alexis Carrel | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Catholic |
John Eccles | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Catholic |
Joseph Murray | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Catholic |
Ernst Chain | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Jewish |
George Wald | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Jewish |
Ronald Ross | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Christian (denomination?) |
Derek Barton | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Christian (denomination?) |
Christian Anfinsen | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Jewish |
Walter Kohn | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Jewish |
Richard Smalley | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Christian (denomination?) |
PART II. Nobel Writers (20-21 Century) | ||
T.S. Eliot | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Anglo-Catholic (Anglican) |
Rudyard Kipling | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Anglican |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Russian Orthodox |
François Mauriac | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Catholic |
Hermann Hesse | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Christian; Buddhist? |
Winston Churchill | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Anglican |
Jean-Paul Sartre | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Lutheran; Freudian; Marxist; atheist; Messianic Jew |
Sigrid Undset | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Catholic (previously Lutheran) |
Rabindranath Tagore | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Hindu |
Rudolf Eucken | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Christian (denomination?) |
Isaac Singer | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Jewish |
This is not to mention some of the greatest minds ever seen in previous centuries like Newton, Kepler, Bacon, Galelio etc. ; who were Christians.
Remember what Professor Lewontin has stated about Materialism.... statements which you do not deny but seem to welcome.
"It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes" ... materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
Surely to any lover of freedom, phrases like "Forced" and "materialism is an absolute" are enemies to free-minds and free thought . The notion that keeps being repeated among comitted materialists is that only they are responsible for science; this is proved false by FACTS. The opposite is true, an assumption of a superior intellect drives many scientists to look for patterns, logic, and systems inherent in creation, which they indeed find.
You are certainly welcome to your own views, but they are in the MINORITY among the educated, as well as compared to the world's population in general.