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I agree that science and faith are theoretically compatible, but you intentionally omit that they have been compatible in practice for hundreds of years. I wou

• sirrocco 16y ago
  For that list to have any significance you'd have to put it side by side with a list of people who didn't have faith . You would also have to remove many of the believers on the list because being a person without god in 1400 would probably have made you a witch and you'd probably burn at the stake or something.
  • pbhjpbhj 16y ago
    >For that list to have any significance you'd have to put it side by side with a list of people who didn't have faith . So you're saying that Newton, say (who incidentally wrote many theological treatise), no longer is a scientist [of any worth] if there were more people at the time who didn't have a faith in God? The fact that there may or may not be scientists without faith is orthogonal to the fact that scientists with a faith in God produce worthwhile results, or do you disagree?