(May 15, 2023 at 2:24 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(May 15, 2023 at 1:50 pm)Kingpin Wrote: I'm not a big fan of Craig personally as I find his arguments to be a bit convoluted. I find no qualms between being a scientist and a theist. Some very well respected scientists are believers and a great deal of the founders of modern science (Newton, Kepler, Capernicus, Maxwell etc) were as well, but of course the argument there was how little they knew compared to what we know today (which I don't personally agree with). Newton's Principia Mathematica was written "in hopes that one may believe". Take Peter Higgs of Scotland and William Phillips of USA. Both won the Nobel prize for Physics, one an atheist, the other a theist. Their science doesn't separate them, but their worldview does.
That some theists are scientists is not at all the same proposition as theism being scientific. Do I mistake an appeal to authority here?
No just that science in and of itself does not lead one to a worldview one way or another. Some are theists, others atheist, agnostic etc. Science and theism don't compete unlike Stephen Hawking's view that one must choose between science and God.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.