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|    Jay Morris to William Hyde    |
|    Re: xkcd: Chemical Formula    |
|    13 Feb 26 22:48:42    |
      XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips       From: morrisj@epsilon3.me              On 2/13/2026 1:47 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.       >       > William Hyde              There's an association of Christian scientists. The American Scientific       Affiliation.              https://network.asa3.org/page/asaabout              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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