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   From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   Paul S Person wrote:   
   y.   
   >   
   > I mean, the effrontery of the man! Does he not know that all true   
   > scientists are thoroughly doctrinaire atheists?   
      
      
   Mohammad Abdus Salam was a believing Ahmadi Muslim who quoted the Koran   
   in his Nobel acceptance speech.  His headstone once read "First Muslim   
   Nobel Laureate", but as Pakistan has declared the Ahmadis to not be   
   Muslim, that word has been removed.   
      
   My google skills are failing me, but I believe that there was at least   
   one mid century Nobel winner in physics who went to a fundamentalist church.   
      
   As did Faraday.   
      
   Then there was Philip Gosse.  Despite the failure of his "Omphalos"   
   idea, there is no doubt that he was a very successful natural scientist   
   as well as a fundamentalist Christian.   
      
   George MacReady Price was able to recruit a sting of Physicists and   
   Chemists to his creationist foundation.  All of them were serious   
   Christians and were initially prepared to believe that those evil   
   biologists were lying through their teeth about evolution.   
      
   Alas for Price, when these scientists actually looked at the evidence   
   for an old earth and evolution, they were convinced by it, and left   
   Price's organization.   
      
   They remained Christian, though.  IIRC several became theistic   
   evolutionists.   
      
   Many scientists are indeed atheist or agnostic.  But I don't believe I   
   have ever worked in a department which was without some believers.   
      
   William Hyde   
      
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