which one is true?1 .scientist believe that there is no god 2. peaple believe there is god.?
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1 is not true. Most scientists are religious. \n\n2 is true if you add "some" at the beginning. Not all people believe that there is a god.
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Of course, they co-exist.  Who do you think invented science?  God, of course.\n(Brace yourself for a lot of flak from those who say I'm an ignoramus, but I suspect most of that will come from people who haven't studied all that much science).
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Well, this is a touchy question...God or science. It is also a complicated question, but I will do my best.\n\nThe thing about faith, is if you don't have it, you don't understand it, but if you have it then no explanation is neccessary. In other words, people of faith do not need proof nor do they care to learn, they simply believe in God. People of science need proof of what they believe in. Scientists believe in the atom because they can see it, they can study it. Religious followers do not need to see God to believe in him. \n\nSince man could first walk upright we have been searching for a reason that we are here. Some people turn to God to make their search simple and refreshing. Others turn to science in order to seek a more rational explanation. \n\nReligion is nothing more than a very comforting way of going about your life. God put you here for a reason, God will protect you, God will forgive you, God will give you eternal happiness, and so on are just ways of controlling the weaker 96% of the worlds population. \n\nOn your question, science has not proven that religion is fraud, but it has proved that certain things mentioned in the Bible are untrue. This is easy because the Bible is not a historical record, it is a collection of stories that were passed down by mouth for generations before ever written down. As an example, the Bible says the world was created in six days, (remember, the seventh day was for rest not creation), well, was that six Earth days, or extra-solar days? A lot of what is in the Bible is relative. \n\nNow, although science has proven that a great many things in the religious world are not factual, science has yet to prove that God does not exist. That is one thing that science may never be able to prove...but just to be fair, Religion will also never be able to prove that science is wrong.\n\nI realize that I have put a negative window on religion and I wish to correct this. I myself, am Atheist...I have no belief in any God, I simply believe that no God exists, and I am fine with that. Many others have a need to believe in God. They feel good believing that there is an all-knowing and omnipotent being watching over them and taking care of them and guiding them, I have no problems with that in fact I encourage that.\n\nAlthough I am Atheist, I do read the Bible because the Bible does not only teach about God, it teaches you a good way to live your life and how to be a good person, it teaches morals, values, discipline, and responsibility. If you feel you need to believe in God, then you should, if you are comfortable not believing in God, then go ahead. It is all about personal convictions and preferences. Believe or dis-believe in whatever, or whoever you chose and let others do the same.\n\nI will end this with a quote, although I am not sure who said it. "If God did not exist, then it would be neccessary for man to create Him"
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Your assumption is incorrect. Atheism does *not* mean that you know for a fact that there is no God without a possibility of being mistaken. Atheism is simply a belief that there is no God.
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I'm a scientist (molecular virology and proteomics). There have been several studies on this - unfortunately some have been biased by the surveyors trying to prove one thing or another. The best one I've seen was published in the best scientific journal Nature. The study was by Edward J. Larson and Larry Witham: "Leading Scientists Still Reject God." Nature, 1998; 394, 313.\n\nThey surveyed scientists at leading research institutions in the USA.\n\nSummary of findings:\n\nBelief in god - 7%\nDisbelief in god - 72.2%\nDoubt or agnostics - 20.8%\n\nBelief in life after death - 7.9%\nDisbelief in life after death - 68.8%\nDoubt / agnostic - 23.3%\n\nPhysicists and biologists were most likely to disbelieve (94% and 93% respectively). Mathmaticians were the most likely to believe (14%).\n\nIn answer to your question, most scientists don't believe in god.
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i dunno i've ran into some people on here like that but that's true how could you explain anything. science, no science is something people use i think to jump away from the fact that god does exsist whether they like it or not. i've tried to make people beleive in god but some don't. so all you can do is beleive pray for those people. HE IS OUR SAVIOR SO WORSHIP HIM! GOD BLESS.
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Atheist or Nihilist.\n\nAn Atheist, by strict definition, is someone who doesn't believe in God. That doesn't mean that Atheists can't believe in other things.\n\nA Nihilist on the other hand doesn't believe in anything whatsoever.
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I wrote the following in a blog on God's coherence (source below):\n------------\nBefore I begin, I’m going to define some terms for the purpose of this discussion. These are by no means concrete and we can define them further if need be.\n\nAtheist: Someone without the belief in God. It is not necessarily a position where the person says affirmatively that God does not exist. Atheist is a general statement about a non belief in any God concept.\n\nHard Atheist: This is the person who says that God does not exist, affirmatively.\n\nWeak Atheist: This is a person who does not feel that there is any quality evidence for the existence of God. They do not rule the concept of God out definitely, but they see no reason to believe in any of the Gods they know of.\n\nAgnostic: Agnosticism is not a position on whether one believes in God or not, it is a position on whether one believes that it is possible to know positively whether God exists or not. Additionally it’s a position on whether God can be known through experience.
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Athiest:  One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.\n\nAgnostic:  1.a. One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God. 1.b. One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism. 2. One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
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An Atheist is a believer.  However, they do not believe in the correct religion.
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As far as I can read it, people who say they "believe in science" are saying that they believe that the methods of science can be trusted to reveal as much about how the universe works as is possible.  One of the most important aspects of this is that they are claiming that naturalism is correct - the first paragraph of my first Wikipedia source link explains it well.\n\nReally, the reason why many atheists will say they "believe in science" is because they often encounter people who will say that science cannot test magic, or that science cannot test the Bible, or that scientists are conspiring to hide evidence of aliens or creationism or the nonexistence of global warming or ... well, you see what I mean.  Believing in science may not exclude the last of these (though given how many scientists from how many directions look at those subjects, any global conspiracy would be worse than impossible to maintain), but it does exclude saying that science is _fundamentally_ blind to certain phenomenon.  If I believe in science, then I believe that anything which can be noticed, anything _real_, can be seen and studied with the methods of science.\n\n\nI assume that "I believe in science" may sometimes appear in other contexts, too - in those cases, the speaker is probably explaining why she (or he) does not believe a particular probably-pseudoscientific claim.
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Science can't prove or disprove the existance of God. What proves God is the change that is evident when someone receives Jesus as their Savior. It is a life-changing event! You can't disprove experience. You can't tell me that what I know & experience in my life isn't real. And the same things I've experienced in my relationship with the Lord is being experienced by thousands of others just like me throughout the world. You can't tell me that what I KNOW is real is all in my mind. Just because you didn't personally go to the moon doesn't mean that it wasn't experienced by others. It happened. It is a fact. So is my relationship with the living God of this universe. He lives in me. End of controversy! <*)))><
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An atheist does not believe in a higher power.  An agnostic isn't sure if there is one or not, and typically an agnostic doesn't go seeking for spirituality or answers to that question.
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The latter.\nAny 'god' is a figment of the imagination. Any 'god' is man-made.
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At first glance it looks like you are splitting hairs. But if you are splitting knowing from believing because know means to have indisputable evidence and believe means to strongly think something is true, then the answer is not that simple. We know things in every day life because we experience them. We sit in a chair because experience tells us it won't break. We can say we have faith in that chair but we don't go that far. That's silly. Of course the chair won't fall. It's something we know. However we believe that the North Pole is really up there but not because we have verified that through experience, but because the majority says it is up there. A lot of our knowledge is based on what the majority says is true and is continually verified by others. Now this brings up a question. Does a belief have to be held by the majority of people in order to pass from belief to knowlege? The first people who realized the earth was round had some hard sledding convincing others. In fact they were persecuted. All the time all the people thought the earth was flat; all the time a few thought the earth was round, and all the time that the majority thought the earth was round, through all these stages, the earth was always round. At first nobody knew that; then a few knew that; now  everyone knows that. It was always true. Belief did not make it true. The majority did not make it true. Is there a God? Look at the evidence. Does not make a difference what others believe. If you want to know what is true you will always find out what is true. If you have a bias, then all evidence will be processed in the mind to support that bias. So the question (does God exist), we have to want the answer that is true, not the answer we want. Atheists want the answer to be there is no God. But do Athiests know how much gold there is in the ground or how many grains of sand there are in the world? Of course not. Neither can they know there is no God. They would have to be God to know that. So an honest Atheist can only be an agnostic, not knowing.  Evolution would be true if all millions of the in-between or transitional life forms were in the fossil record. They are missing, all millions of them. So evolution is just as logical as throwing a bunch of metal on a flight line and presto a plane emerges. It won't emerge after five minutes, five hours, five years, five millenia. Airplanes are man made. Everyone knows that. Yet they use the above mentioned logic to say that trees, animals, fish, birds and people living on the only habitable planet, just evolved over billions of years. If the metal can't evolve into a plane after billions of years, what are the odds that in all this universe the earth's inhabitants evolved only on earth but nowhere else during all those billion of years? What makes sense to me is that a creator did all this. To me it is a belief but it is more than a belief. My inner self knows it to be true, and it disagrees with no logic or known fact.
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That means one God is true, but two isn't. That there's only one.\n\nBut I don't believe that. :(
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Dear Wanda,\n\nMy experience is that scientists in general have the same amount of faith (or non-faith) as the population at large. \n\nHaving said that, the degree to which some scientists dont believe in God does not make their belief or non-belief truth...\n\nTo me, what is more important (than the numbers) is the reasons that people (including scientists) give for their belief, or non-belief.\n\nYou mention that the people who believe that god exists are the dumbest people on earth... \n\nIn response... If you read the information in the links I provide below, and then still think that I am one of the dumbest people on earth (because I am a Christian theist), then please let me know, and I will accept your judgment, with humility.\n\nI used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ. \n\nFor a draft-version of my journey from atheism to Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html\n\nFor scientific and intellectual evidence for the existence of God, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/evidence.htm\n\nFor evidence for the historicity and truth of Jesus Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/jesus.htm\n\nFor information regarding scientists who believe in God, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/scientists.htm\n\nCordially,\nJohn