• Question: if your a scientist can you believe in a religion

    Asked by AlliatS on 5 Nov 2020. This question was also asked by FreyaM.
    • Photo: Harriet Gamble

      Harriet Gamble answered on 5 Nov 2020:

      Yes, lots of scientists are religious. It is up to every individual to decide what they believe.

    • Photo: John Davies

      John Davies answered on 18 Nov 2020:

      I personally am not religious, but I know and am friends with good scientists who are. You have to follow your own heart and respect the views of others.

    • Photo: Zaria Serfontein

      Zaria Serfontein answered on 18 Nov 2020:

      Definitely! Being religious or not being religious doesn’t impact your ability to be a scientist. A lot of the time science and religion are trying to answer the same questions, but their approaches are different; science focuses on evidence that we find in the world around us and religion focuses a lot more on people themselves.

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      raam shanker answered on 19 Nov 2020:

      Yes.

    • Photo: Abbie Hutty

      Abbie Hutty answered on 23 Nov 2020:

      Definitely. While I’m not religious myself, some of the colleagues who I count as my closest friends are. I don’t think the two things are in any way incompatible, in fact a lot of my religious colleagues see finding out about the Universe we live in to be a great way of finding out more about their God or creator, and so see their career as enhancing their spiritual learning.

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