• Question: Do you think that a scientist can have a religious point of view?

    Asked by Nay to Stefan, Anna, George, Jodi, Rob on 13 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by woody is bae.
    • Photo: Anna Scaife

      Anna Scaife answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Yes, of course. I know lots of scientists who are religious – they don’t find any difficulty reconciling their religious beliefs with their scientific career. God is in the detail, as people say, and science is looking at the details.

      (“God is in the detail” was a first said by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was an architect.)

    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Absolutely. I’ve met quite a few devoted religious scientists! I met a scientist at university who was once an atheist, but became a devoted Christian after his studies of quantum mechanics – he felt like the universe was crafted so perfectly and so complicatedly detailed, there had to be something more.

    • Photo: Jodi Schneider

      Jodi Schneider answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Yes, absolutely! I read once that linguists/natural language processing researchers were more likely to be religious that other scientists.

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