{"id":867,"date":"2002-08-02T17:23:44","date_gmt":"2002-08-03T01:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/02\/scientists-and-their-gods\/"},"modified":"2002-08-02T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2002-08-03T01:23:44","slug":"scientists-and-their-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/02\/scientists-and-their-gods","title":{"rendered":"Scientists And Their Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: this was orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly an excerpt from the arti\u00adcle men\u00adtioned at the begin\u00adning. Since then, I\u2019ve added a few oth\u00aders and I\u2019ve also done some fur\u00adther research on most of the sci\u00aden\u00adtists.<\/i><\/p>\n

In Sci\u00aden\u00adtists And Their Gods<\/a>, Dr. Hen\u00adry F. Schae\u00adfer<\/a> (Chris\u00adt\u00adian, Nobel nom\u00adi\u00adnee, Stan\u00adford grad<\/b>, and the third most-quot\u00aded chemist in the world) writes about the fact that there are many<\/b> Chris\u00adtians who work in the hard sci\u00adences. I was par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00aded to note that three (four count\u00ading the author) have con\u00adnec\u00adtions to Stan\u00adford.<\/p>\n

Some nota\u00adbles:<\/p>\n

Robert Grif\u00adfiths<\/a>, \u201cmem\u00adber of our U.S. Acad\u00ade\u00admy of Sci\u00adences, Otto Stern pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of physics at Carnegie Mel\u00adlon Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty received one of the most cov\u00adet\u00aded awards of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Phys\u00adi\u00adcal Soci\u00adety in 1984 on his work in phys\u00adi\u00adcal mechan\u00adics and ther\u00admo\u00addy\u00adnam\u00adics. Physics Today said he is an evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Chris\u00adt\u00adian who is an ama\u00adteur the\u00adolo\u00adgian and who helps teach a course on Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty and sci\u00adence.\u201d (inci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly, he\u2019s a Stan\u00adford grad<\/b><\/i>)<\/p>\n

Richard Bube<\/a> \u201cFor many years, Bube was the chair\u00adman of the depart\u00adment of mate\u00adri\u00adals sci\u00adence at Stan\u00adford<\/b><\/i> and car\u00adried out foun\u00adda\u00adtion\u00adal work on sol\u00adid state physics con\u00adcern\u00ading semi\u00adcon\u00adduc\u00adtors. He said:There are pro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate\u00adly as many athe\u00adis\u00adtic truck dri\u00advers as there are athe\u00adis\u00adtic sci\u00aden\u00adtists.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Suppe<\/a>, \u201cMem\u00adber of the U.S. Acad\u00ade\u00admy of Sci\u00adences and not\u00aded pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of geol\u00ado\u00adgy at Prince\u00adton, expert in the are of tec\u00adton\u00adics, began a long search for God as a Chris\u00adt\u00adian fac\u00adul\u00adty mem\u00adber. He began attend\u00ading ser\u00advices in the Prince\u00adton Chapel, read\u00ading the Bible and oth\u00ader Chris\u00adt\u00adian books.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charles H. Townes<\/a> \u201cMy can\u00addi\u00addate for the sci\u00aden\u00adtist of the cen\u00adtu\u00adry is Char\u00adlie Townes. (Of course, he is a friend of mine and there could be some bias here.) He did some\u00adthing fair\u00adly sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant when he dis\u00adcov\u00adered the laser. He almost got a sec\u00adond Nobel Prize for the first obser\u00adva\u00adtion of an inter\u00adstel\u00adlar mol\u00ade\u00adcule.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arthur Schawlow<\/a>: \u201cwon a Nobel Prize in physics, 1981, serves as physics pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Stan\u00adford <\/b><\/i> and iden\u00adti\u00adfies him\u00adself as a Chris\u00adt\u00adian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allan Sandage<\/a>: \u201cthe world\u2019s great\u00adest obser\u00adva\u00adtion\u00adal cos\u00admol\u00ado\u00adgist, an astronomer at the Carnegie Insti\u00adtu\u00adtion, was called the Grand Old Man of cos\u00admol\u00ado\u00adgy by The New York Times when he won a $1 mil\u00adlion prize from the Roy\u00adal Swedish Acad\u00ade\u00admy of Sci\u00adences.\u201d<\/p>\n

William Phillips <\/a> yet anoth\u00ader Nobel lau\u00adre\u00adate. Read a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading arti\u00adcle<\/a> about him.<\/p>\n

David Cole: a Berke\u00adley bio\u00adchemist. Could\u00adn\u2019t find a bio page on him.<\/p>\n

Fran\u00adcis Collins<\/a>: direc\u00adtor of the Human Genome Project, the largest sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic project ever under\u00adtak\u00aden, Dr. Collins once said I\u2019d call myself a seri\u00adous Chris\u00adt\u00adian. That is some\u00adone who believes in the real\u00adi\u00adty of Christ\u2019s death and res\u00adur\u00adrec\u00adtion, and who tries to inte\u00adgrate that into dai\u00adly life and not just rel\u00ade\u00adgate it to some\u00adthing you talk about on Sun\u00adday morn\u00ading.<\/i> (source<\/a>) Inci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly, Collins was an athe\u00adist who became a believ\u00ader after attain\u00ading his doc\u00adtor\u00adate.<\/p>\n

Arno Pen\u00adzias<\/a> said \u201cThe best data we have are exact\u00adly what I would have pre\u00addict\u00aded had I had noth\u00ading to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.\u201d (read more about him<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Owen Gin\u00adgerich<\/a>, pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of astron\u00ado\u00admy at Har\u00advard and a devout Chris\u00adt\u00adian, said \u201cI can only imag\u00adine that God, as a pow\u00ader\u00adful force in the uni\u00adverse, could put on many dif\u00adfer\u00adent faces. If God is in fact all-pow\u00ader\u00adful, there\u2019s no rea\u00adson why this all-pow\u00ader\u00adful force in the uni\u00adverse could not rep\u00adre\u00adsent itself and relate to the self-con\u00adscious human beings, in some fash\u00adion, through com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion with human beings. And how do you com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate? Through prophets of all ages.\u201d (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Relat\u00aded Sto\u00adries<\/b><\/p>\n