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   On 2/13/26 4:03 PM, William Hyde wrote:   
   > Tony Nance wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Yes, he was an Arian.  Dedicated a million or two words on the topic,   
   > which were studiously ignored until the last century.  He took this work   
   > just as seriously as work on physics, mathematics, or alchemy.   
   >   
   > I didn't want to cite older scientists, though, since at one point   
   > everyone was either a Christian or pretended to be (we know of some   
   > atheists through Pepys' diaries.  Without this source we'd call them   
   > Christian).   
   >   
      
   Understood - thanks.   
      
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