(July 4, 2012 at 10:23 am)CliveStaples Wrote:(July 1, 2012 at 8:28 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Because the merit of his work is being effected by his beliefs.
How would you feel if there was a teacher at a medical school teaching 'The Curse Theory of Disease' because the Bible says diseases are caused by curses?
Scientists are not considered scientists if they don't do science. Trying to fit the observed facts to your already existing beliefs is NOT science.
Just a few scientists that have not 'renounced god' and are/were still great scientists:
Max Planck
Francis Collins
Kenneth Miller
Edwin Hubble
V.S. Ramachandran
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekh
Ooops, the last 2 believe in a different god than you do. Do they sill count?
But here's the thing that made them great scientists. They did NOT try to fit the facts to their existing beliefs.
I am really getting the idea you don't understand what the scientific process is, and why creationist 'scientists' are not engaged in that process.
Let us know if that is the case and we'll explain it to you.
Schroedinger, Godel, Noether...heck, the father of the scientific method was Christian.
The Christian scientists I know see no problem with methodological naturalism. An atheist acquaintance of mine insists that being a Christian makes me a worse mathematician--that I'm somehow yielding my rationality. I don't think it's true, but what would I know? Crazy people don't know they're crazy, right?
I would not say it makes you a worse mathematician. But yes, you do toss rationality into the shitter.
