XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   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).   
      
   William Hyde   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)