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To: Theo
"Biologists"? The way that paragraph is disingenuously written, one would think that all biologists are evolutionists.

Give a few counterexamples, please.

Also, what is the percentage of biologists who accept evolution? 985%? 99+% What?

594 posted on 02/21/2004 6:55:27 PM PST by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
From this page:

In total, about 60% of scientists in the United States expressed disbelief or doubt in the existence of God in 1996.

According to another study, most biologists are overwhelmingly evolutionists -- that is obviously correct. From this page :

A recent poll of the members of the National Academy of Sciences found that, although commitment to atheism was predominant among the leading scientists in all fields, biologists were more so than others.

Biologists had the lowest rate of belief (5.5% in God, 7.1% in immortality), with physicists and astronomers slightly higher (7.5% in God, 7.5% in immortality).

In fact, probably most of this small minority who do believe in God are theistic evolutionists, not creationists.

However, it should be emphasized that this overwhelming commitment to evolutionism is not because of the scientific evidence, but rather because of antipathy to Biblical Christianity. Even Charles Darwin became an evolutionist and agnostic because of his rejection of the Biblical doctrine of divine punishment.

I did a quick google search, though, and came away with a list of scientists who believed the biblical "take" on how we came about. I quote from another page :

Of even greater significance than the fact that there are thousands of scientists who have become creationists in modern times, however, is the fact that most of the greatest scientists of the past founding fathers of modern science creationists and, for that matter, even Bible-believing Christians. One could go down the list of the names of the great men who founded the various disciplines of modern science like Kepler, Newton, Boyle, Pascal, Faraday, Pasteur, Maxwell, Kelvin and scores of others of like calibre he would find a very large percentage of them to have been men who believed the Bible to be the Word of God and the God of the Bible to have created all things in the beginning. Somehow these beliefs didn't deter them from understanding science!

595 posted on 02/21/2004 8:38:25 PM PST by Theo
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