The new Origin Of The Species! Get ready schools....

[Kasz216]

highwaystar101 said:

Kasz216 said:

highwaystar101 said:
Whenever I hear statistics about scientists I always think two things...

A. That the actual number of scientists that believe in god is significantly lower than the national average within their country.

B. Scientists who belong to a religion will most likely work in a field that is unconnected to their faith and so does not mean they have to compromise on their beliefs.

I would be willing to bet that both of these statements are true.

You would be wrong... well about B.... 59 percent of biologists believe in a god.

A is true.

Like Rath and his "quantum mind" theory.  Scientists stick to the first theory they come up with until there is some proof suggesting it isn't so.  Even when there is no empieracal evidence... and sometimes when there is empierical evidence to the opposite... like Rath's Quantum mind theory... which is actually less likely as it has stuff going against it and no empirical evidence.

59%? A lot more than 59% of biology has no reason to interfere with personal religious beliefs. You can work in most areas of biology and not compromise your religious beliefs, Slimebeast is a perfect example of this.

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Kasz, I looked on the internet at specific areas of biology and as you would expect 79%  of evolutionary biologists don't believe a god exists. But that is because atheism plays much more of a key role in evolutionary biology. However if you working in a field such as biochemistry then it would rarely influence your religious beliefs.

How does atheism play a key role in evolutionary biology?

Atheism doesn't play a key role in anything.

It's not like evolutionary biology is particularly complicated for people to understand.

If anything I'd think it suggests that something about atheism makes biologists more likely to choose evolutionary biology as a field.

Any biologist should know enough about evolution to know that it didn't go down like Genisis.