Why do atheists & agnostics think belief in Jesus & intelligence are

[The Good Fight]

mutually exclusive ideas in light of? So many scientists who believe in Jesus?

Oh you want proof? Ok look 'em up and just ask 'em yourself if you like for clarification. I have many more if you would like more...just email:

Dr. William Arion, Biochemistry, Chemistry
Dr. Paul Ackerman, Psychologist
Dr. E. Theo Agard, Medical Physics
Dr. Steve Austin, Geologist
Dr. S.E. Aw, Biochemist
Dr. Thomas Barnes, Physicist
Dr. Geoff Barnard, Immunologist
Dr. Don Batten, Plant Physiologist
Dr. John Baumgardner, Electrical Engineering, Space Physicist, Geophysicist, expert in supercomputer modeling of plate tectonics
Dr. Jerry Bergman, Psychologist
Dr. Kimberly Berrine, Microbiology & Immunology
Prof. Vladimir Betina, Microbiology, Biochemistry & Biology
Dr. Andrew Bosanquet, Biology, Microbiology
Edward A. Boudreaux, Theoretical Chemistry
Dr. David R. Boylan, Chemical Engineer
Prof. Linn E. Carothers, Associate Professor of Statistics
Dr. Rob Carter, Marine Biology
Dr. David Catchpoole, Plant Physiology
Prof. Sung-Do Cha, Physics
Dr. Eugene F. Chaffin, Professor of Physics
Dr. Choong-Kuk Chang, Genetic Engineering
Prof. Jeun-Sik Chang, Aeronautical Engineering
Dr. Donald Chittick, Physical Chemist
Prof. Chung-Il Cho, Biology Education
Dr. John M. Cimbala, Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Harold Coffin, Palaeontologist
Timothy C. Coppess, M.S., Environmental Scientist
Dr. Bob Compton, DVM
Dr. Ken Cumming, Biologist
Dr. Jack W. Cuozzo, Dentist
Dr. William M. Curtis III, Th.D., Th.M., M.S., Aeronautics & Nuclear Physics
Dr. Malcolm Cutchins, Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Lionel Dahmer, Analytical Chemist
Dr. Raymond V. Damadian, M.D., Pioneer of magnetic resonance imaging
Dr. Chris Darnbrough, Biochemist
Dr. Nancy M. Darrall, Botany
Dr. Bryan Dawson, Mathematics
Dr. Douglas Dean, Biological Chemistry
Prof. Stephen W. Deckard, Assistant Professor of Education
Dr. David A. DeWitt, Biology, Biochemistry, Neuroscience
Dr. Don DeYoung, Astronomy, atmospheric physics, M.Div
Dr. Geoff Downes, Creationist Plant Physiologist
Dr. Ted Driggers, Operations research
Robert H. Eckel, Medical Research
Dr. André Eggen, Geneticist
Dr. Dudley Eirich, Molecular Biologist
Prof. Dennis L. Englin, Professor of Geophysics
Dr. Andrew J. Fabich, Microbiology
Prof. Danny Faulkner, Astronomy
Prof. Carl B. Fliermans, Professor of Biology
Prof. Dwain L. Ford, Organic Chemistry
Prof. Robert H. Franks, Associate Professor of Biology
Dr. Alan Galbraith, Watershed Science
Dr. Paul Giem, Medical Research
Dr. Maciej Giertych, Geneticist
Dr. Duane Gish, Biochemist
Dr. Werner Gitt, Information Scientist
Dr. Warwick Glover, General Surgeon
Dr. D.B. Gower, Biochemistry
Dr. Robin Greer, Chemist, History
Dr. Stephen Grocott, Chemist
Dr. Vicki Hagerman, DMV
Dr. Donald Hamann, Food Scientist
Dr. Barry Harker, Philosopher
Dr. Charles W. Harrison, Applied Physicist, Electromagnetics
Dr. John Hartnett, Physics
Dr. Mark Harwood, Engineering (satellite specialist)
Dr. George Hawke, Environmental Scientist
Dr. Margaret Helder, Science Editor, Botanist
Dr. Harold R. Henry, Engineer
Dr. Jonathan Henry, Astronomy
Dr. Joseph Henson, Entomologist
Dr. Robert A. Herrmann, Professor of Mathematics, US Naval Academy
Dr. Andrew Hodge, Head of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Service
Dr. Kelly Hollowell, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacologist
Dr. Ed Holroyd, III, Atmospheric Science
Dr. Bob Hosken, Biochemistry
Dr. George F. Howe, Botany
Dr. Neil Huber, Physical Anthropologist
Dr. James A. Huggins, Professor and Chair, Department of Biology
Dr. Russ Humphreys, Physics
Evan Jamieson, Hydrometallurgy
George T. Javor, Biochemistry
Dr. Pierre Jerlström, Molecular Biology
Dr. Arthur Jones, Biology
Dr. Jonathan W. Jones, Plastic Surgeon
Dr. Raymond Jones, Agricultural Scientist
Prof. Leonid Korochkin, Molecular Biology
Dr. William F. Kane, (Civil) Geotechnical Engineering
Dr. Valery Karpounin, Mathematical Sciences, Logics, Formal Logics
Dr. Dean Kenyon, Biologist
Prof. Gi-Tai Kim, Biology
Prof. Harriet Kim, Biochemistry
Prof. Jong-Bai Kim, Biochemistry
Prof. Jung-Han Kim, Biochemistry
Prof. Jung-Wook Kim, Environmental Science
Prof. Kyoung-Rai Kim, Analytical Chemistry
Prof. Kyoung-Tai Kim, Genetic Engineering
Prof. Young-Gil Kim, Materials Science
Prof. Young In Kim, Engineering
Dr. John W. Klotz, Biologist
Dr. Vladimir F. Kondalenko, Cytology/Cell Pathology
Dr. Leonid Korochkin, M.D., Genetics, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology
Dr. John K.G. Kramer, Biochemistry
Dr. Johan Kruger, Zoology
Prof. Jin-Hyouk Kwon, Physics
Prof. Myung-Sang Kwon, Immunology
Dr. John G. Leslie, Biochemist, Physician, Archaeologist
Dr. Jason Lisle, Astrophysicist
Dr. Alan Love, Chemist
Dr. Ian Macreadie, molecular biologist and microbiologist:
Dr. John Marcus, Molecular Biologist
Dr. Ronald C. Marks, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Dr. George Marshall, Eye Disease Researcher
Dr. Ralph Matthews, Radiation Chemist
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@ lainiebsky It's a pretty impressive list don't you think? Like I said...I have WAY more than this if you would like them. Yahoo answers would only allow me to fit the ones that you see. Sorry. The point is that I'm sick to death of hearing atheists and agnostics who think they are the only ones with intelligence and that to believe in a God makes you an absolute moron. I would say that all those "phd's" and other titles up there would beg to differ with those assumptions. You get on here and say, "well.....well.......well.......we have more smarter people than you do...nah nah nah nah boo boo!" That's funny.
@ old spuds - Oh, you so atheists don't believe in other things either such as cutting and pasting! Wow. You guys don't believe in ANYTHING do you. You only believe in YOU because you're, "Good Enough, Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like you!"

But then again we wouldn't know if you're telling the truth because you HIDE all of your questions and answers. What are you scared of people to see. Live in the light brother.....live in the light!

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[lainiebsky]

The percentage of scientists who believe in a god is much smaller than the percentage of the general population that believes in a god. That's pretty significant.

It's also true that as intelligence and education levels rise, rates of atheism rise.

If I provided a list of scientists who are atheists would you consider that proof that atheists were smarter? No? Then why do you think your list proves anything?

 

[Mistress]

You got Duane Gish in there! He's no biochemist! Just making shit up are we? Look at project Steve. A list of scientists supporting evolution. It's longer than yours even though we only allow scientists named Steve onto it! Lol

 

[Harry Potter]

belief in god and jesus aren't unintelligent they are just irrational.

it just happens that the majority of christians have a tendency to be stupid.

appeal to popularity fallacy.

 

[SIMON C]

At one time in history, it was an extreme minority who believed the earth revolved around the sun.
At one time in history, it was an extreme minority who believed the earth was not flat.

Far more people than you listed who were considered intelligent and well educated for their time believed the earth was the center of the universe, and/or that the earth was flat.

The belief in myths and intelligence are not mutually exclusive, but the individual's capability for rational reasoning is made suspect when they believe in something as outlandish as the story of Jesus.

 

[Tom A]

Although a list either way proves nothing, how many scientists of the world have you accounted for in that relatively short list?

 

[Lomax]

Perfectly true, no doubt - and I admit to unjust simplifications.

Believers are only stupid within a narrow sphere. Outside that, many of them are quite smart.

 

[Gervaise Mollusk]

Allow me to cite Dr. I Mukerjee (Biochemistry), Dr. S Chandra (Chemistry), Ms. B Sivakumar MSc (Immunology) and Dr. A Premkumar (Molecular Biology) all personally known to me, all of whom are Hindus.

And there are thousands more Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims all with science and engineering degrees ranging from BSc to PhD.

 

[old school - spuds to you]

we don't. we also don't cut and paste.

 

[m00rt00]

Phd'S particularly Phd's from backwoods american so called universitys are no gurantee of rationality, indeed my daughter has one from the most prestigious universtiy in Australia. Neither her nor any of her friends while highly intelligent are particularly rational, particularly on those matters outside of their chosen field. They are academics they compartmentalise everything but the matters pertaining to their particular field and simply dont think about them.

 

[Emma]

Okay, so there's a lot of religious people out there. So what?