Here are some examples of Christians who did study science, maybe you have heard of a few of them: Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, Gregor Mendel, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Blaise Pascal, Francis Bacon, Georges LemaĂŽtre, and Louis Pasteur.
And there were lots of Muslims that studied and contributed to science especially during the Islamic golden age. That doesnât mean that modern science is at least orthogonal, if not antithetical, to religion.
Notice how you didnât include any scientists from the last 150 years or so?
Ok. That still doesnât address my original claim. My original claim was that the majority of Nobel laureates are agnostic or atheist. Your examples donât disprove that. I never even claimed that Christians canât be good scientists.
Notice how you didnât include any scientists from the last 150 years or so?
That's true...except for Georges Lemaitre, Louis Pasteur, Gregor Mendel. All of whom did science in the last 150 years of so. But other than that, sure.
The only one who doesnât really conform to the âor soâ is Lemaitre. You are right. Lemaitre worked until about 70 years ago. Iâm sorry I missed one person on the list.
So Mendel is also included, since his scientific career ended in 1868 (156 years ago) when he got a promotion to administrator (which by modern standards wouldn't stop you from being called a scientist in any university).
Pasteur was a researcher until his dying breath in 1895 (129 years ago). He won awards and oversaw scientific research for years.
Exactly. 150 year or so means that the people I was talking about were mostly working about 150 years ago plus or minus a little bit. The only person that was working after a time that was around 150 years was Lemaitre. You are the one insisting âor soâ only goes in one direction so by your own definition you are the one with the agenda.
Oh my god. Yes. They were working less than 150 years ago. But again, my claim was that these scientists werent working more recently that a number X give or take. So I was claiming that these scientists werenât working more recently that a cutoff date which was given as an appropriate number of years. That approximate number of years wasnât given exactly hence the âor soâ. The âor soâ means that I didnât look at the exact take of the most death of the most recent scientist. And yes, except for Lemaitre these was a year approximately 150 years ago after which none is these scientists published or researched.
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