RE: God vs Science
December 21, 2011 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2011 at 2:34 pm by Cyberman.)
I've already presented Einstein's position on religion in the other thread, so now it's Newton's turn. So what if Newton was religious? In that respect he was a man of his time. Newton, like all scientists, isn't - or shouldn't be - held up as some kind of prophet whose every utterance is carved into stone. If he's wrong, then he's wrong. What is important is the work he produced, the furthering of human knowledge, and nowhere in that body of knowledge is there a god. Which made a greater impact on the world, his religious writings or his scientific discoveries? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle apparently believed in fairies in later life, yet he is more famous for creating Sherlock Holmes. The astronomer George Ellery Hale, by all accounts, believed he had regular visits by an elf who advised him to approach the Rockefeller Foundation to fund construction of what was then the largest telescope in the world. The elf has long since evaporated, but the telescope remains.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
