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Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says
Scientific American ^ | March 20, 2019 | Lee Billings

Posted on 03/22/2019 5:20:30 AM PDT by Heartlander

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1 posted on 03/22/2019 5:20:30 AM PDT by Heartlander
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A real scientist speaks, rather than a science-priest.


2 posted on 03/22/2019 5:26:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

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3 posted on 03/22/2019 5:32:58 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Heartlander

Well, that’s his last prize. Probably no more funding, either. Possibly, he’ll be looking for a new job as well.


4 posted on 03/22/2019 5:42:44 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Heartlander
I cannot,for the life of me,understand how scientists...particularly astronomers...can be convinced that there's no God. Agnostic? Maybe.That would make them a bit like the “Doubting Thomas”.But atheist? Sorry,does not compute!
5 posted on 03/22/2019 5:45:58 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Heartlander

You can join Reasons to Believe. Our founders Hugh and Kathy Ross, along with Ken Samples, Razale Rana, Jeff Swernick, and others, write books, speak, study the connection with God, Science, and the Bible. We have been reading their books and going to their meetings for many years. They are Cosmologists, Physicists, etc. Their office is in California.

If interested I would recommend Why the Universe is the Way it is. And Who was Adam.

Last Saturday at our RTB meeting on campus of UT we had for our speaker Michael Strauss, an OU professor. We discovered Not All Okies are Dumb Okies. He is brilliant. One week we had a professor of Quantum Mechanics.

We just got a dvd from RTB about String Theory. Very interesting.

If the Universe had a beginning, Big Bang, had to have a creator...


6 posted on 03/22/2019 5:46:28 AM PDT by buffyt (Pokie Haunt Us Warrior and Alexandria Pistachio Kotex....)
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To: Gen.Blather

There still are scientists out there making a living while bucking the atheism dogma. The commies haven’t killed real science yet.


7 posted on 03/22/2019 5:47:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Heartlander

A breath of fresh air.

If I hate anything it is a smug atheist. And they are all smug.


8 posted on 03/22/2019 5:49:21 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Olog-hai

Does reality come into existence when we discover it?
Or when G-d knows it?


9 posted on 03/22/2019 5:50:41 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Heartlander

Gleiser is a Jewish agnostic who is honest with himself and his work. His views on the subject follow those of Einstein and Einstein’s mentor Kurt Goedel. Such views are valuable to defend science against deceivers who abuse science.

Newton was to the 17th century what Einstein was to the 20th century and what Goedel is becoming to the 21st century. Yet Newton was a devout Christian.

A Christian scientist is not only humble but also guided to uncover and enlighten what God wants His human creation to have, There are many scientific facts to pursue but the Christian scientist lets God and His flesh form in Christ be the guide as to what to pursue.

Belief in Christ not only instills humility but also guides the Christian scientist to avoid shiny objects such as beautiful fruit from a poisonous tree. For example, precoded genetic laboratory grown humans; should the knowledge underlying technology for this be a focus for development or should it be avoided in favor of gaining genetic knowledge to cure disease? Which should be funded? Which should receive research grants? Such questions are moral and ethical in nature and are rooted in scripture.


10 posted on 03/22/2019 6:04:29 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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If I hate anything it is a smug atheist. And they are all smug.

Most are stuck in adolescent rebellion.
11 posted on 03/22/2019 6:36:27 AM PDT by needmorePaine
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To: Olog-hai

He’s an agnostic but it’s better than atheist.

I believe in God and a specific one, but it doesn’t need to be proved by science or the whole point is missed.

Scientists don’t have to “disprove” something for which there is not scientific model to disprove.

And neither side can prove God’s existence with science or disprove it.

They can make a good case for intelligent design and a creator but that creator can be a sixth grade student in some other place and time and we are his project.

Just saying as absurd as it sounds, there is no means of scientifically proving or disproving a benevolent creator.

That’s what faith is for.


12 posted on 03/22/2019 6:36:50 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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13 posted on 03/22/2019 6:39:32 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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"...we should take a much humbler approach to knowledge, in the sense that if you look carefully at the way science works, you’ll see that yes, it is wonderful — magnificent! — but it has limits.

That is a great starting point. Atheistic materialism gives a multiple choice test question on causality and forbids one of the answers, possibly decapitating itself in the process.

14 posted on 03/22/2019 6:39:38 AM PDT by Migraine
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The problem for agnostic scientists, and even more for atheists, is that there is plenty of scientific evidence for the existence of God, indeed the God described in the Bible, no matter how much they ignore, deny or try to define it away.


15 posted on 03/22/2019 6:41:56 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: Heartlander

Excellent, thanks for posting.


16 posted on 03/22/2019 6:55:25 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: Heartlander

We say, “Okay, you can have a hypothesis, you have to have some evidence against or for that.” And so an agnostic would say, look, I have no evidence for God or any kind of god (What god, first of all? The Maori gods, or the Jewish or Christian or Muslim God? Which god is that?) But on the other hand, an agnostic would acknowledge no right to make a final statement about something he or she doesn’t know about. “The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,” and all that.

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If you ever discuss theism with an atheist ask them if they’ve considered all possible definitions of God?


17 posted on 03/22/2019 7:03:10 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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You know, I’m a “Rare Earth” kind of guy. I think our situation may be rather special, on a planetary or even galactic scale.

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I’m a Rare Earth guy because that’s what the preponderance of evidence suggests.


18 posted on 03/22/2019 7:04:33 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I cannot,for the life of me,understand how scientists...particularly astronomers...can be convinced that there’s no God.

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I think most of them reject a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible.


19 posted on 03/22/2019 7:05:54 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: Heartlander

bkmk


20 posted on 03/22/2019 7:59:52 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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