(October 1, 2008 at 8:05 am)Alan Wrote: There's many areas where a religious mind has no impact on the results. Religious people CAN be scientific.
That is true but no scientific discipline exists in isolation and given the nature of science and the peer-review process it seem to me that as a scientist or a science adherent you either "buy into" that process or you don't and if you don't, like EVF and others say, you're not a true scientist (IOW you cannot just believe your bit of science is true whilst ignoring the evidences and explanations of other bits).
That said MANY religious people embrace science and quite a few of our best scientists have religious beliefs, Professor Sir John Polkinghorne (I think that's his name) for instance.
Kyu
