(April 30, 2017 at 11:37 am)Mermaid Wrote: I work with some of the most talented and brilliant scientists in the world, many of whom are religious. Some of them are verrrrrry religious. I don't think it's about intelligence or denial, it's about the ability to rationalize things. I certainly can't do it, but apparently a lot of people can, and people who are smarter than I am.
True, but a deeper inspection shows a lot of hypocrisy in this area. A lot of scientists are "doing it" to please a spouse, usually, a wife, but often times a husband as well. As for someone like Dr. Francis Collins, he was raised in a religious home, attended church, etc., but claimed that he became an atheist. Probably true, but then he did a residency and watched a patient of his (probably, a little child) die and then he "snapped" and "got religion". And, now, he is making a ton of money off it, plus pleasing his spouse, and, he gets to have a plush job in Washington as one of the Evangelical's "golden boys". But, and this is just a hypothesis, maybe Francis feels that he deserves a Nobel and Jesus helps him cope with not having one.
