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   On 2/13/26 2:47 PM, William Hyde wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Newton was a devout Christian, of the monotheistic variety, yes?[1]   
   Tony   
   [1] Iirc, he did not believe in the Trinity.   
      
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