• Question: Are you religious, do you feel that this/or this would contradict what you find out in science?:D

    Asked by falak to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 19 Nov 2011. This question was also asked by antimatteroffact, aoifemoffatt, miles888, beckstargirl.
    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      I am not religious, the only reason for this is that I find it difficult to accept something without reproducible evidence. I see religion as requiring one to believe things blindly, accepting simply the word of someone else – which is at odds with the way I think.

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      Katharine Schofield answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      Personally I’m not religious, but I don’t think it’s a contradiction to be a religious scientist. You run into problems if you take religious texts absolutely literally, like in creationism, as there is clear scientific evidence that’s simply not the case. Science and religion are two different ways of trying to develop an understanding of your experience of the world.

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      Jony Hudson answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      I don’t hold religious beliefs, but I know many very good scientists who do. I don’t think that science and religion need to contradict each other. In some senses they’re both trying to understand the world and our place in it. They just take different approaches and come up with different kinds of answer.

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      Mark Basham answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      I’m not particularly religions (although I got married in a church) and I know a few scientists who are religions, but none of them overly so, and they generally don’t bring it up when talking about science. Jony and Katherine are right, Religion and Science are answering different questions.

    • Photo: Peter Williams

      Peter Williams answered on 19 Nov 2011:

      I’m an atheist. I actually think it’s dangerous to hold views through belief alone, so in that way i’m quite anti-religious.

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