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How Many Scientists are Religious?

Evidence How Many Scientists are Religious? Many people assume that highly educated people are less inclined to be religious. Yet, the professional society Sigma Zi did a survey with some interesting results. "Three thousand three hundred responded, so this is certainly beyond statistical uncertainty. The headline says, "Scientists are anchored in the U. S. mainstream." It says that half participate in religious activities regularly. Looking at the poll is that 43% of Ph.D. scientists are in church on a typical Sunday. In the American public, 44% are in church on a typical Sunday. So it's clear that whatever it is that causes people to have religious inclinations is unrelated to having an advanced degree in science." On the other hand, there does seem to be a correlation with wealth and agnosticism. "It is true in science, as well as in essentially all other professions, that after income levels reach perhaps $50,000 per year (in North America), further increases in salary may be correlated with higher percentages of agnosticism. In his 1998 paper in Nature Edward Larson showed that for incomes above $150,000 per year, belief in God falls off significantly. The same trend holds, for example, for lawyers at these income levels. This finding, of course, is consistent with the words of Jesus on the difficulty of a rich person entering the kingdom of heaven." (Cited from "Scientists and Their Gods", by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer, III at http://leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/scientists.html Also (Cited from "Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang, and God" Dr. Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, III at http://www.leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/bigbang.html )

Scientist Schaefer on Big Bang as Consistent With Genesis

Scientist Schaefer on Big Bang as Consistent With Genesis Creation, Evidence "A Creator must exist. The big bang ripples (April 1992) and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis. " (Dr. Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, III at http://www.leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/bigbang.html ;Cited from "Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang, and God"

Hawking on Design

Hawking on Design Creation, Evidence In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense. ? Stephen Hawking(Cited from "Scientists and Their Gods", by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer, III at http://leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/scientists.html ) A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. ? Fred Hoyle (Cited from "Scientists and Their Gods", by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer, III at http://leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/scientists.html )

Stephen Hawking on God

Stephen Hawking on God Creation, Evidences Stephen Hawking is probably the most popular living scientist. In his book, A Brief History of Time, he said, "It is difficult to discuss the beginning of the universe without mentioning the concept of God. My work on the origin of the universe is on the borderline between science and religion, but I try to stay on the scientific side of the border. It is quite possible that God acts in ways that cannot be described by scientific laws." When asked by a reporter whether he believed that science and Christianity were competing world views, Hawking replied cleverly "Then Newton would not have discovered the law of gravity." Dr. Hawking is well aware that Newton had strong religious convictions. A Brief History of Time makes wonderfully ambiguous statements such as, "Even if there is only one possible unified theory (here he is alluding to the envisioned unification of our understandings of quantum mechanics and gravity), it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" In a similar vein Hawking asks "Why does the universe go to the bother of existing?" (Cited from "Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang, and God" (Dr. Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, III at http://www.leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/bigbang.html )

Science Writer on "the impression of design"

Science Writer on "the impression of design" Evidence, Creation Science writer extraordinaire Paul Davies adds "There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming." (Cited from "Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang, and God" by Dr. Henry F. "Fritz" Schaefer, III at http://www.leaderu.com/offices/schaefer/docs/bigbang.html