• Question: Are all scientists athiests considering they don't believe that God created the world

    Asked by anon-193409 to Emma on 11 Nov 2018.
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      Emma Crawford answered on 11 Nov 2018:


      That’s not necessarily true. I am a scientist, but I am also christened. Whilst I don’t regularly go to church anymore, I like to believe in a God-like presence. I found a great quote about this from a Guardian news article:
      “Scientist is not synonymous with atheist. Scientists also don’t all have the same gender, race, sexual orientation or political ideology, much less religion or lack thereof. Whether or not a person is religious, with respect to their vocation as a scientist, is completely irrelevant. Just like sexual orientation, race and gender should be irrelevant to being a scientist. Reinforcing the scientist = atheist stereotype, whether you are for it or against it, necessarily excludes people. No one should be excluded from science if they want to do it, be excited about it or read about it.”
      Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2013/mar/04/myth-scientists-religion-hating-atheists

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