What´s the most common religion/spiritual belief among scientists?
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Surveys of scientists find that about half of all scientists are atheists with the proportion of atheists higher among the elite scientists (and science is only getting more atheistic).
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Science seeks the answers. Religion closes its eyes to the nature of the Universe.
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yes they do, the Quran explains the relationship between science and religion, read it (the english version).
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Baha'i \nBuddhism\nChristianity \n  Catholic \n  Christian Science \n  Eastern Orthodox\n  Mormon \n  Protestant \n     Quaker \nFalun Gong \nHinduism \nIslam \nJainism \nJudaism \nNation of Islam \nPagan & Earth-Based \nScientology \nSecular Philosophies \nShinto \nSikhism \nTaoism \nUnitarian Universalist \nZoroastrianism
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There are many medical (and other fields) researchers with a deep faith in God.  The question is irrelevant in that their field is a scientific endeavor, and their beliefs are a matter of faith.  Both are compatible and they are not against each other as the questioner seems to imply.
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it depends on your own metaphysics\n\ngods and devils are on explanation into the unknown.\n\nscience is another\n\nperhaps, today's science will be consider ignorant in the future\n\nperhaps, religion is yesterday's science
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A Christian Scientist is one who attends the Church of Jesus Christ Scientist (not to be confused with Scientology).\n\nThe biggest difference between Christian Scientists and other christian churches is that Christian Scientists do not believe in accepting any kind of medical treatment.  They believe that they will be healed through prayer rather than by Doctors and medicines.\n\nIt's a curious stance considering some New Testament scriptures.  For example, Jesus said, "a healthy man does not need a physician, but a sick man does".  Also, Luke, for whom the book of Luke is named, was a physician, and there is no mention of his occupation being in conflict with his worship.\n\nIn fact, the Bible is unusually quiet on the topic of whether or not it is appropriate to seek medical attention.  You could make a good case that Christians should put their faith in God rather than men, which would be in accordance with the scriptures, but you could also make a case that to cherish God's gift of life would require that you use whatever means available to stay healthy.
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What? You mean those volumes of factual research written by scientists. The same scientists that said the world was flat. The same scientists that said the atom could not be split. The same scientists who said we would never put a man on the moon. O.K. I believe in the Bible because I know it is true. It was inspired by a God who knows everything.
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Dear Wanda,\n\nMy experience is that scientists in general have the same amount of faith (or non-faith) as the population at large. \n\nHaving said that, the degree to which some scientists dont believe in God does not make their belief or non-belief truth...\n\nTo me, what is more important (than the numbers) is the reasons that people (including scientists) give for their belief, or non-belief.\n\nYou mention that the people who believe that god exists are the dumbest people on earth... \n\nIn response... If you read the information in the links I provide below, and then still think that I am one of the dumbest people on earth (because I am a Christian theist), then please let me know, and I will accept your judgment, with humility.\n\nI used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ. \n\nFor a draft-version of my journey from atheism to Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html\n\nFor scientific and intellectual evidence for the existence of God, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/evidence.htm\n\nFor evidence for the historicity and truth of Jesus Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/jesus.htm\n\nFor information regarding scientists who believe in God, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/scientists.htm\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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There are certainly some scientists who believe that, but they are a very small minority. You aren't actually wrong for believing that to be the case, but you should be aware that it is considered unlikely by most scientsists.
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• Belief in Deity\nScientology considers the belief in a God or gods as something personal and therefore offers no specific dogma. The nature of the Supreme Being is revealed personally through each individual as s/he becomes more conscious and spiritually aware. There exists a life energy or force (Theta) beyond and within all. \n\n \n• Incarnations\nThere are no particular human incarnations of God, as the universal life force (Theta) is inherent in all. All humans are immortal spiritual beings (thetans) capable of realizing a nearly godlike state through Scientology practices. \n\n \n• Origin of Universe and Life\nAll is manifestation of the universal spirit, which is all that actually exists. \n\n \n• After Death\nRebirths continue until one consciously confronts all pre-birth, current-life, and previous-life traumas and realizes one's true nature as a "thetan," immortal spirit--transcending matter, energy, space, and time. Achieving this state enables the spirit to escape the cycle of birth and death--to operate independently of the physical universe and become one with God. \n\n \n• Why Evil?\nPainful experiences and harmful acts in one's prebirth, current, and past lives become imprinted in the reactive mind and lead to irrational behavior. Departures from rational thought and untrue ideas ("aberrations") can result in wrongdoing. \n\n \n• Salvation\nSalvation is achieved through the practices and techniques of Scientology, the ultimate goal of which is to realize one's true nature as an immortal spirit, a thetan. The path to salvation, or enlightenment, includes achieving states of increasingly greater mental awareness--Pre-Clear, Clear, and ultimately Operating Thetan. An Operating Thetan is a spirit who can control matter, energy, space, time, thought, and life. Practitioners ("Auditors") are regarded as ministers and counselors who assist others to achieve self-enlightenment. Auditors help others to identify their prebirth, current, and past-life disturbances, which are obstacles to happiness and spiritual enlightenment. \n\n \n• Undeserved Suffering\nSuffering occurs as part of the spirit's entrapment here in the physical universe. Only when the individual is aware of his spiritual nature can he identify his barriers within the universe and overcome them, rising out of a lower state and into a higher state of happiness and freedom. \n\n \n• Contemporary Issues\nBased on the belief that you cannot free yourself spiritually without working to free others, Scientology has founded and supports many organizations for social betterment, particularly in the areas of drug abuse, crime, psychiatric abuse, government abuse of law, human rights, religious freedom, education, and morality. Scientology strongly favors the use of their methodology for spiritual/mental healing over the use of conventional treatment.  \n\n=)
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the religion of the universe
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Good question. Rationally, you would expect science to at least consider all possibilities and seek to encompass them in a complete model.\n\nWhile a great many scientists have a personal belief in God, as an organized system, "science" itself is more akin to a religion, deliberately seeking to pit itself as a force against monotheism or any acknowledgment of a higher power.\n\nThe debate on Godel's theories, the uncertainty principle, the anomalies within Quantum and the rejection of all forms of paradox point to science (as a system) actively ignoring any possible signs of God, even at the expense of incomplete and broken theories.\n\nThis of course is not rational and against the very principles of science.  But it is where we find ourselves. Privately, scientists are happy to confess their belief and views on God, but collectively you'd have a better chance in getting them to admit in the existence of Santa Claus.\n\nUntil science (as a religion) accepts rational debate, there can be no theory that will suffice.
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I'd suppose they believe in the scientific, mathematical, physics-driven Big Bang.  Which would be right. \n\nA THEORY can be proved mathematically. Faith doesn't involve math, sug. \n.
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Results: http://www.selectsmart.com/PRO/beliefnet/index1.html\nThe top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.\nBelief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.\n\n1.  Unitarian Universalism (100%)  \n2.  Theravada Buddhism (99%)  \n3.  Mahayana Buddhism (92%)  \n4.  Neo-Pagan (88%)  \n5.  Liberal Quakers (87%)  \n6.  Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (83%)  \n7.  New Age (80%)  \n8.  Taoism (75%)  \n9.  Hinduism (73%)  \n10.  Jainism (69%)  \n11.  Sikhism (68%)  \n12.  New Thought (66%)  \n13.  Secular Humanism (64%)  \n14.  Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (63%)  \n15.  Bahá'í Faith (61%)  \n16.  Scientology (55%)  \n17.  Reform Judaism (55%)  \n18.  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (45%)  \n19.  Orthodox Quaker (44%)  \n20.  Nontheist (35%)  \n21.  Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (32%)  \n22.  Jehovah's Witness (27%)  \n23.  Orthodox Judaism (26%)  \n24.  Seventh Day Adventist (22%)  \n25.  Eastern Orthodox (15%)  \n26.  Islam (15%)  \n27.  Roman Catholic (15%)  \n\nLOL, well, you asked !   :)
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None really - science is a methodology.  The scientists might have faith in all sorts of things -but science itself does not.
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I'm a scientist (molecular virology and proteomics). There have been several studies on this - unfortunately some have been biased by the surveyors trying to prove one thing or another. The best one I've seen was published in the best scientific journal Nature. The study was by Edward J. Larson and Larry Witham: "Leading Scientists Still Reject God." Nature, 1998; 394, 313.\n\nThey surveyed scientists at leading research institutions in the USA.\n\nSummary of findings:\n\nBelief in god - 7%\nDisbelief in god - 72.2%\nDoubt or agnostics - 20.8%\n\nBelief in life after death - 7.9%\nDisbelief in life after death - 68.8%\nDoubt / agnostic - 23.3%\n\nPhysicists and biologists were most likely to disbelieve (94% and 93% respectively). Mathmaticians were the most likely to believe (14%).\n\nIn answer to your question, most scientists don't believe in god.