21 Scientists Who Believed the Bible
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21 Scientists Who Believed the Bible
Have a close look at these names:
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Matt Shizzle, I think this is your cue...(NTSA!..meow)
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Actually:
Names:
Johannes Kepler
Robert oyle
Isaac Newton
Carl Linnaeus
Leonhard Euler
Georges Cuvier
Michael Faraday
Samuel Morse
Charles Babbage
Matthew Maury
James Joule
Louis Pasteur
Gregor Mandel
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
Joseph Lister
James Clerk Maxwell
John Ambrose Fleming
George Washington Carver
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Wernher von Braun
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i wouldnt even call half of those "Great Scientists"
Seriously, when a "Great Scientist List" has a Gynaecologist on it, you know its screwed >.>
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yeah, the list is a short one .... of course ....
Interesting that, being that those names were in chronological order, the most modern name you could find was 60 years old. On the other hand, if you looked at modern scientists, you'd find your numbers clearly skewed in favor of irreligiosity. However, this would not prove that non-belief would be the correct position any more than the suggestion that 21 scientists did believe would prove the opposing position, as both would be ad vericandum arguments.
PS: If you get to use a Nazi rocket scientist (von Braun) as an example of a religious scientist...then you don't get to use the "Hitler was an atheist" argument.
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Yeh, I am a bit skeptical about some of the scientists in this book.
Interesting though aye.
Damn! You guys are good!
Ah Ah Ah! its "GREAT Scientist" remember that, Nazi rockteer is GREAT
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The list said it, not me!
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Isaac Newton was a great scientist.. You've definitely got a point there..
Just curious what the consequences would have been for Isaac to reject the bible in a world where even questioning the bible often meant torture and death.
Kind of like saying (Pick a Name) loved and supported the Communist party while living in East Germany in the 1960's.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
say that again AmericanIdle, YEAH .....
I have to hand it to the OP. He has proven that atheists are smart enough to keep their opinions to themselves when it means death to voice them.
Once again, rational thought prevails.
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I know I'm not the first to point this out, but just because a bunch so smart people believed in God doesn't mean God exists.
Also, for some reason, Albert Einstein is absent from the list. Is it because of a mistake; intentional omission because he was a Jew and/or not a Christian; or the compiler of the list conceding that Einstein was an atheist?
If one could use the Arguement from Authority to try to prove that Christianity is the "correct" choice, Einstein would destroy it. Depending on who you ask, his religious preference was either "Jewish," "Deist" or "Strong Atheist." In any case, it's generally agreed upon that he wasn't a Christian. Of course, like DG said, it'd be fallicious to assume that whichever one of those three Einstein was is the "correct" choice simply because it was Einstein's choice for the same reason - namely, the Arguement from Authority.
Not a violation of Godwin's Law. In fact, this quote preempts it. But still:
Good night, funny man, and thanks for the laughter.
I don't get it.....so some scientists are believers? We know that already, some are, many aren't, some are believers so that they can get funding as well. But all of the scientific believers still have the same issue as all the other believers.....prove the biblical god exists, or that ANY god exists. There are Hindu Scientists as well, ooopy dooo.
He made great contributions, but that has nothing to do with virgin births or zombie gods surviving rigor mortis after 3 days. He also believed in alchemy too. Being inteligent and discovering something that becomes a building block for future scientists DOES NOT make a deity real. Muslims constantly claim that they invented algebra, but Christians dont believe in Allah as a result.
The ancient greeks postulated elements but no one today believes in their polytheistic gods. The ancient Egyptians contributed greatly to math merely by using it to build their incredible monuments, but no one sane today would buy Ra, the sun god as being real.
Being sceintifically educated does not make you immune to believing false things.
When today's deist, polytheist or monotheist can come up with a DNA sample of their deity, they would have something. Dont worry, I wont hold my breath waiting for that day.
Newtons contrubutions that we still use today no more proves the existance of Jesus's magical hocus pokus claims any more than his contributions would prove the existance of Thor or Isis.
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Unfortunately, that's not true. Both Hellenic (Greek) and Kemetic (Egyptian) Reconstructionist faiths exist in modern America, as well as a multitude of others, such as Asatruar (Nordic Reconstructionism). So, hate to tell you Brian, but both Zeus and Ra are worshipped, by educated people, in the US.
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Interestingly, everyone remembers Newton for his work on gravity and motion, even though most of his work was on theology and alchemy. There is a lesson there, I think, though I have no idea what it could be.
Götter sind für Arten, die sich selbst verraten -- in den Glauben flüchten um sich hinzurichten. Menschen brauchen Götter um sich zu verletzen, um sich zu vernichten -- das sind wir.
I would guess that the lesson is that it is possible to do the right thing for the wrong reasons.