|
minasoliman
|
 |
« on: February 17, 2011, 11:26:08 AM » |
|
In the fields I described above, there seems to be a general trend of atheism. Have there been any known theists in cosmology or theoretical physics? I remember my undergraduate physics professor was a devout Catholic, but I'm not sure whether he understood cosmology and the theoretical physics behind it or not.
Or is this a case of the most vocal of the cosmologists are the atheists?
|
|
|
|
« Last Edit: February 17, 2011, 11:26:58 AM by minasoliman »
|
Logged
|
Vain existence can never exist, for \\\"unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain.\\\" (Psalm 127)
If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.
|
|
|
Achronos
What's so good about Cincinnati? You like it? You think Cincinnati is cool? I've never heard anyone say, 'I'm going to Cincinnati on vacation.'
Site Supporter
Warned
Hoplitarches
 Offline
Faith: Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
Jurisdiction: Just as little is seen in pure light as in pure darkness.
Posts: 9,304
And we gave him the Rolling Stone cover?!
|
|
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2011, 01:49:13 PM » |
|
Doesn't quantum physics, from Newtonian physics, actually help's in the defense of Christianity?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"We see at once that the words absolute, divine, eternal, and so on do not express what is implied in them.
|
|
|
|
Papist
|
|
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2011, 01:58:45 PM » |
|
The scientist who developed the "Big Bang Theory" was a Catholic priest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"The only-begotten Son of God, wanting us to be partakers of his divinity, assumed our human nature so that, having become man, he might make men gods." - St. Thomas Aquinas
|
|
|
|
minasoliman
|
|
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2011, 02:06:24 PM » |
|
Indeed, but we're not in Newtonian physics anymore apparently. Things seem to be more complicated due to some recent discoveries, which lead to many mathematical reworkings. I'm talking about people in Hawking's particular profession of theoretical physics. Do we have any believers in this field?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Vain existence can never exist, for \\\"unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain.\\\" (Psalm 127)
If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.
|
|
|
|
Jetavan
|
|
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2011, 02:18:28 PM » |
|
Indeed, but we're not in Newtonian physics anymore apparently. Things seem to be more complicated due to some recent discoveries, which lead to many mathematical reworkings. I'm talking about people in Hawking's particular profession of theoretical physics. Do we have any believers in this field?
Undoubtedly. Ever hear of John Polkinghorne? |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
If you will, you can become all flame.
Extra caritatem nulla salus.
In order to become whole, take the "I" out of "holiness".
I'm not a witch.
Ἄνω σχῶμεν τὰς καρδίας
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -- Mohandas Gandhi
Y dduw bo'r diolch.
|
|
|
|
minasoliman
|
|
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2011, 02:26:13 PM » |
|
Indeed, but we're not in Newtonian physics anymore apparently. Things seem to be more complicated due to some recent discoveries, which lead to many mathematical reworkings. I'm talking about people in Hawking's particular profession of theoretical physics. Do we have any believers in this field?
Undoubtedly. Ever hear of John Polkinghorne? Well, no, but I just googled him. It's amazing how much you don't hear of such people, and make the stereotype of an atheistic scientific community. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Vain existence can never exist, for \\\"unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain.\\\" (Psalm 127)
If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.
|
|
|
|
Entscheidungsproblem
|
|
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2011, 08:03:50 PM » |
|
Freeman Dyson would probably be one of the most influential, theistic theoretical physicists.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.
-- Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS |
|
|
|
minasoliman
|
|
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2011, 08:09:38 PM » |
|
Wow...these people are really never known, at least by me maybe. Am I alone in the fact that when people think of cosmologists and theoretical physicists, the most famous ones are the atheists?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Vain existence can never exist, for \\\"unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain.\\\" (Psalm 127)
If the faith is unchanged and rock solid, then the gates of Hades never prevailed in the end.
|
|
|
|
Entscheidungsproblem
|
|
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2011, 08:20:05 PM » |
|
Wow...these people are really never known, at least by me maybe. Am I alone in the fact that when people think of cosmologists and theoretical physicists, the most famous ones are the atheists?
There is a sizeable group of famous cosmologists who are believers, but the majority of them make up the "old guard" and are not producing the amount nor quality of research to keep them in the limelight. Honestly, besides Paul Davies, I cannot think of one who has written something that I have read recently. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.
-- Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS |
|
|
|
