Posted on 02/03/2008 2:36:33 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
50 NOBEL LAUREATES AND OTHER GREAT SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVE IN GOD (This book is an anthology of well-documented quotations. It is a free e-book.)
CONTENTS
PART I. NOBEL SCIENTISTS (20th - 21st Century)
Albert EINSTEIN, Max PLANCK, Erwin SCHRÖDINGER, Werner HEISENBERG, Robert MILLIKAN, Charles TOWNES, Guglielmo MARCONI, John ECCLES, Richard SMALLEY, etc.
PART II. NOBEL WRITERS (20th - 21st Century)
T.S. ELIOT, Rudyard KIPLING, Alexander SOLZHENITSYN, François MAURIAC, Hermann HESSE, Winston CHURCHILL, Rabindranath TAGORE, Jean-Paul SARTRE, etc.
PART III. NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES (20th - 21st Century)
Albert SCHWEITZER, Jimmy CARTER, Theodore ROOSEVELT, Woodrow WILSON, Nelson MANDELA, Dag HAMMARSKJÖLD, Martin Luther KING, Jr., Frederik de KLERK, etc.
PART IV. FOUNDERS OF MODERN SCIENCE (16th - 21st Century)
NEWTON, GALILEO, COPERNICUS, KEPLER, BACON, DESCARTES, PASCAL, FARADAY, MAXWELL, KELVIN, BOYLE, HARVEY, LEIBNIZ, HUXLEY, HAECKEL, PASTEUR, DARWIN, etc.
Table: Scientific Disciplines Established by Bible-Believing Scientists
PART V. GREAT PHILOSOPHERS (17th - 21st Century)
Immanuel KANT, Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU, VOLTAIRE, David HUME, Benedict de SPINOZA, Giordano BRUNO, George BERKELEY, John Stuart MILL, Richard Swinburne
PART VI. OTHER RELIGIOUS NOBELISTS
PART VII. NOBELISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND SCIENTISTS ON JESUS
PART VIII. RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND LINKS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Really? The existentialist par excellence, who suggested men are like actors on stage without any script, actually believed in God?
I didn’t know Sarte. He is dead.
I suspect, however, that he was an atheist while here. I doubt he is one now.
I sorta doubt that great thinkers like Michael Farraday and James Clerk Maxwell would want to be on the same list as James Earl Carter!
It's not hard to do. Start at the top.
Albert Einstein believed in a God no "believer" on this site would recognize, one who took no note of, or interest in, the concerns of men or mankind for starters, one who was not an individual and perhaps not even an entity.
Einstein was amazed and awed by the natural world, and even more startled that it could be understood by rational analysis.
And how it was made that way.
Good point, but this is a compilation, not necessarily a group of people who see eye to eye on every issue. :)
thanks for posting!
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Heisenberg sorta believed in God, but he wasn’t certain.
No problem. The thread will get lost in Super Bowl & Tuesday hysteria, but maybe it’ll help others later. :)
RD
I only put this out for perusal, I cannot vouche for all the quotes in the free e-book.
The book does seem to source its quotes and material though!
RD
This list is good in some respects, but I think Sartre and Hume would be pretty shocked to be included.
Also, some of the other great guys on this list, people like Churchill, undoubtedly believed in Christian civilization, but there is very little evidence that Churchill actually believed in God, at least as the phrase “I believe in God” is traditonally understood.
Why would members of FR who don't believe in god be "alleged" atheists?
Because when push comes to shove - there is no such animal.
If they are shocked, the shock is probably combined with appreciation that the world they left behind recognized in their lives some small aspect of faith.
It’s pretty tough to hold any view on religion when you’re dead.
“50 Nobel Laureates & Other Great Scientists Who Believe In God”
If you go back far enough you’ll find great philosophers who not only believed in God, they believed in many Gods, like Zeus, Athena, Ares, etc.
Not all of these people were traditional Christians or Jews. Einstein saw the Creator as an impersonal being or perhaps a force, as you noted. I think Einstein did not like any sort of dogmatism. He would have laughed at anyone who tried to present a scientific proof for the existence of God, and he would have laughed at anyone who claimed to prove that God does not exist.
Einstein spoke of God almost in a literary or symbolic way, to suit his own purposes. “Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber Boshaft ist er nicht” - “Subtle is the Lord God, but evil he is not.” ... meaning that it was difficult but not impossible to understand nature. “What truly interests me is whether the Creator had any choice when He set about His Creation.” Here you can see him wink. When he said, “God does not play dice with the universe,” Bohr gave the rejoinder, “Stop telling God what to do.”
Some people will dispute some of those names, among them Einstein. Most scientists today will insists Albert was an atheist.
I can tell you that I failed my test. When I was in grad school, a friend of mine thought that when Billy Graham said, “Jesus”, it sounded like “Chili Sauce” so he used to walk around saying, “Chili Sauce ... Chili Sauce” as though rehearsing or perfecting the inflection. Well, one time we went on a ride together at a fair, the notorious Zipper, which has suffered some handful of incidents over the years such as doors popping open, etc. I dared him to yell “Chili Sauce”, and he dared me back, but neither of us would do it, since we felt in genuine fear for our lives, even if only in a small way, and this was enough to extinguish or suppress the hubris required for the act.
If they are shocked, the shock is probably combined with appreciation that the world they left behind recognized in their lives some small aspect of faith.”
I guess. But I tend to take people at their word. If they say, “I am an atheist” then I let them reap what they sow.
He wasn't an athiest...he regarded our universe as an awe-inspiring mystery and struggled as best he could to make sense of it by means of careful observation and rational analysis, always conscious of how much remained beyond his grasp.
He was contemptuous - I don't think I exagerate - of most religions because they put adherance to dogma above observation of the real world and claimed to know with certainty far more than they actually did.
And Heisenberg was worried that if you tried to observe God, it would just make determining his existence more uncertain.
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