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- From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
- Subject: Re: Number of "religious scientists"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.004621.5136@access.usask.ca>
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- Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
- References: <craigen.11.721488939@ace.acadiau.ca> <6cJ6TB3w165w@iowegia.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:46:21 GMT
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- In article <6cJ6TB3w165w@iowegia.uucp>, quest@iowegia.uucp (Steve J. Quest) writes:
- |> craigen@ace.acadiau.ca (DOUGLAS CRAIGEN) writes:
- |>
- |> > >>Then how do you explain the large number of people who are both scientists
- |> > >>and are religious?
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- ETC
-
- |> It has been my experience that when a true professional
- |> scientist is challenged- science vs. beliefs, they will invariably
- |> admit that they are truly atheistic, and wear the religion as a
- |> badge because it was a heritage of their parents, etc.
- |>
- |> When I was younger, I believed in a deity. I prayed and
- |> all that. I also noticed nothing happened. I took up science, I
- |> experimented and all that. I also noticed that GREAT things could
- |> happen! Needless to say, I am a scientist today- but above all, I
- |> am a complete unequivocal atheist. I have no beliefs or need for
- |> belief in any form of deity. I believe in science..........sq
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- An atheist believes that the statement "God exists" is false. Certainly
- a scientist should not be an atheist because no scientific evidence
- exists to prove that God does not exist. It's like believing the
- nonexistence of stars 1 trillion light years from us simply because no
- evidence exists for their existence. I have not seen evidence supporting
- the existence of God. I have not seen a formal account of what God is.
- How can anyone prove anything about God?
-
- Henry Choy
- choy@cs.usask.ca
-