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Subject: The Nobel Scientists: What They Say about God


The German physicist Max Born, who pioneered quantum

mechanics, said, "Those who say that the study of

science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly

people." He was right, of course, and over the years,

many other Nobel laureates have agreed with him.



American physicist Arno Penzias shared the 1978 Nobel

Prize for discovering microwaves in space -- patterns

that physicists have interpreted as showing that the

universe was created from nothing. Penzias said, "If

I had no other data than the early chapters of

Genesis, some of the Psalms, and other passages of

Scripture, I would have arrived at essentially the

same picture of the origin of the universe, as is

indicated by the scientific data."



German-British researcher Ernst Boris Chain was

awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with

penicillin. Chain says, "The principle of [divine]

purpose ... stares the biologist in the face wherever

he looks ... The probability for such an event as the

origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer

chance is just too small to be seriously considered

..."



Chain also said that, "The assumption of directive

forces in the origin and development of vital

processes becomes a necessity in any kind of

interpretation."



American physicist Arthur Compton discovered what we

call the Compton Effect, relating to X-rays. He said,

"For me, faith begins with the realization that a

supreme intelligence brought the universe into being

and created man. It is not difficult for me to have

this faith, for an orderly, intelligent universe

testifies to the greatest statement ever uttered: 'In

the beginning, God ...' "



William D. Phillips won the 1997 Nobel Prize in

chemistry for using lasers to produce temperatures

only a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

Phillips once quipped that so many of his colleagues

were Christians he couldn't walk across his church's

fellowship hall without "tripping over a dozen

physicists."



It's been the conventional wisdom that scientists are

atheists, but not so, by a long shot. Professor

Richard Bube of Stanford says, "There are

[proportionately] as many atheistic truck drivers as

atheistic scientists." But among Nobel laureates, the

number who recognize the hand of God in the universe

is remarkably high. Charles Colson.



Edward E. Rylander,M.D.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have acepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it.

--H. S. Lipson, FRS (Professor of Physics, University of Manchester, UK), 'A Physicist looks at evolution'. Physics Bulletin, vol. 31, 1980, p. 138.

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"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish…We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be."
- Pope John Paul II

Typical atheist assumption--could easily apply to modern science
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
- Thomas Jefferson

Please take note!
This letter is allegedly written by Thomas Jefferson to a Dr. Woods. Can anyone confirm this letter actually exists?

Christian response
"A legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein

Intended to bash religion, but can apply equally as well to science/atheism
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
- Edward De Bono, PO: Beyond Yes And
Perfect example of myth

Recovering Evolutionist
‘I attended a creation seminar arranged by my pastor. I had only been a Christian for some four years or so, and was still a convinced evolutionist. I have to admit that I went with the attitude — what can this pastor, whose last science course was probably in junior high school, tell me about the area I know so much about?

‘I came away from that meeting with my faith in evolution shaken enough to make me have to embark on what turned out to be a three or four year intensive study of all the available material on creation/evolution. At the end of that time, I was convinced that the creation point of view, from a scientific standpoint, was the only credible position that a thinking person with a scientific background could accept.’

- Alan Galbraith, Ph.D--Geology, Hydrology
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Atheist Philosophy
"Now for the evidence," said the King, "and then the sentence."
"No!" said the Queen, "first the sentence, and then the evidence!"
- Lewis Carroll

Religious Requirements
'The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.'
- Thomas Jefferson: Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779

Nations under religion
".no nation has ever yet existed or even been governed without religion. Nor can be."
- Thomas Jefferson

Critique of Alexander Kohn's False Prophets:Fraud and Error in Science and Medicine

"Although it may be difficult in some situations to distinguish between deliberate falsification and inadvertent error, it is possible and important to do so in principle. Whether or not they function consistently and effectively, institutional mechanisms to reduce the number and the significance of errors are an integral part of scientific research. Until recently there have been few social devices specifically designed for detecting and dealing with instances of fraud. It was, and in many quarters still is, thought to be destructive to collegial relations even to talk openly about such transgressions, much less to institute changes or maintain inspection systems. Scientists' reluctance to deal with the problem has made serious appraisal more difficult and reform less exigent."

- Patricia Woolf


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