09-21-2012, 06:30 AM
(09-21-2012, 05:55 AM)kandrathe Wrote: No, no. I was just challenging the eppie assertion that scientists "can't rightly combine their work with religion" -- These are just some of the most reknowned who do -- and speak about doing exactly that. Given enough time, I could look up many many more... And, they were all "hard" scientists -- not the soft squishy type he was implying they might be... You are free to argue with these professors views. They seem fully capable of defending themselves without my aid.
No credible scientist "combines" their work with religion. They do not mix. Those who maintain their religion while doing good science do so by either segregating their two classes of beliefs so thoroughly that they don't trouble one another, or by choosing religious beliefs so slippery and vague that they couldn't contradict anything at all.
You didn't list the big fish, though, which is Freeman Dyson.
-Jester