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Interestingly, creationists with advanced degrees often turn out to be engineers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal
by zck 17y ago
Interestingly, creationists with advanced degrees often turn out to be engineers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_hypothesis
- pchristensen 17y agoThanks, I hadn't heard of this before! Perhaps learning how things work makes you more sympathetic to the idea of a creator, or suspicious of complex things occurring spontaneously, or seeing how complex systems can arise from a few well chosen first principles. I've found that the more I learn about society, neurology, human psychology, and organizing principles of systems, it makes me more confident of two things. First, that the world could definitely and logically be the product of a certain kind of Creator (not all visions or ideas of God apply). Second, that such a Creator is not necessary if you believe in infinite universes. The thing that bothers me about #2 is that if you believe in infinite universes, shouldn't there be a universe with a God in it?
- carey 17y agoWhich infinity? If you believe in infinite rational numbers, shouldn’t there be a rational number equal to the ratio of a circle’s radius to its circumference? (I don’t believe in God or infinite universes. Standard Model FTW!)
- Locke1689 17y agoThat doesn't really work. Fundamental scientists (especially academics) tend to be the least religious.
- nightlifelover 17y agoMaybe I should go into biomedical engineering.. I can't imagine that they have religious people there ;)
- tel 17y agoAs a guy just about to graduate from a BME program it's anecdotally just not the case.