[lbo-talk] Leading Scientists Still Reject God

Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 05:51:46 PDT 2005


On 6/8/05, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> >[lbo-talk] "Damn, did God piss in your cheerios?"

and btw, this:

--- Similarly, Oxford University scientist Peter Atkins commented on our 1996 survey, "You clearly can be a scientist and have religious beliefs. But I don't think you can be a real scientist in the deepest sense of the word because they are such alien categories of knowledge." ---

goes right to my point in my exchange with martin. i think atkins is wrong about "real scientist" -- again, the issue is not what science is, but what you think *god* is -- but his point about alien categories of knowledge is precisely the point i was trying to make.

j

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