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That's an impressive list! And the last person listed only died two hundred and thirty years ago!
The Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre, who died in 1966, discovered the Big Bang.
Werner Heisenberg, died in 1976, on of the creators of quantum physics, was Lutheran.
Ernest Walton, who died in 1995, proved that E=mc², was Methodist. Nobel prize in physics.
John Eccles, Nobel prize in Physiology, who died in 1997, was a devout Christian.
Just to name a few… That doesn't prove anything, but yes one can be scientist, and a good one, and believe in God.
In Steven Hawkings' book A Brief History of Time, Hawking described meeting with the Pope and the Pope told him how the Big Bang theory was great but don't go searching for the cause of the Big Bang.
I think that perfectly illustrates the difference between scientists who are religious and the Church itself.
It shows a lack of imagination considering brane theory posits the big bang event was a natural event in a larger manifold and Hawking suggests the axis of time we know started with the big bang. There is no before for anything to exist, including God.
That's the kind of talk that would have gotten you burned at the stake.
If the Republican Party takes over and makes (a specific version of) Christianity a state religion, it may yet still.
The Church (we should even say "the Churches") is a very complex structure. However you're partly right, and as an institution, the Catholic Church tends to be quite conservative, but it's still better than most Evangelical Churches, which are against science altogether...
Still, I have read an article (I can search it if you are interested) that showed that 30% of professional scientists were affiliated to a religion. It's far less than the general population, but it's not nothing; religion and science can work together, as long as both stay in their line.
That sounds like the exact opposite of "working together"
Bad choice of words, you're right ^^. Science and religion work together like two workers on an assembly line. One takes care of screwing, the other of nailing; if the nailer tries to screw with his hammer, it's not going to work... when people read the Bible to look for biological or astronomical truths, that doesn't work either.
I can agree the church certainly has screwed a lot of people over the years...
You're really throwing out some softballs here dude 😆
Ahaha indeed!