Thursday, September 6, 2007

Beyond Belief--Session Two--Clash of Cultures

Neil deGrasse Tyson

This was a very interesting speech. I don’t think that when a scientists gets to a point when he is having difficulty understanding something and cannot explain it he should stop and say it is God. That is not the scientific way of doing things. The best reaction is to look back on your research and find out what is being done wrong. To give up on research and stop trying to find answers is not what should be done.

However, say that because a scientist believes in God is a horrible thing and a problem is an ignorant statement. Believing in God is not rejecting science, rather it can be a way to encourage more scientific research in order to gain a larger understanding of the universe that God made. To waste time trying to figure out why some scientists believe in God is counterproductive in that the time spent doing that could be spent on trying to understand nature and the world around us.

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