Many scientists present themselves as completely impartial truth-seekers.
However, the evidence reveals something very different. Scientist John C.
Lennox has written:
• Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, for one, has no hesitation in saying so: “The
world needs to wake up from the long nightmare of religion… Anything we
scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in
fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.” That is the New Atheists’
stated goal in a nutshell; and the observant reader will not miss the
totalitarian sounding word “anything” in Weinberg’s statement.
• [Richard] Dawkins states the goal this way: “If this book works as I intend,
religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down,” even
though in his next sentence he recognizes that this might just be presumptuous
optimism. He wants not only to rally the faithful (atheists) and to encourage
them to “come out” for their faith (for such it is, despite their protests to
the contrary as we shall see); but also to proselytize —to “raise the
consciousness” of others, by describing the attractions of the New Atheism
—thus increasing the footprint of atheism on the demographic landscape.
“Award-winning Finnish biotechnologist Matti Leisola has written a fascinating
account of what happens when a scientist follows the evidence wherever it
leads. Leisola’s account of how he succeeded should inspire up-and-coming
scientists who face the same challenge.” (Biologist Jonathan Wells, PhD):
• Over and over again I have encountered materialist fanaticism from people who
are not ready to give up their views in the face of contrary evidence.
Actually, they usually are not even interested in considering the evidence.
Why do scientists not consider any explanations outside of the
naturalistic/materialize box?
• ...most scientists who go along with methodological materialism put about as
much thought into it as they do breathing. I was that way. And in hundreds of
discussions over the years I have witnessed a blindness to basic philosophical
commitments in many kinds of people from at least thirty different
nationalities. Even among scientists few are aware of their basic
presuppositions. Most of them consider science a neutral search for truth.
Perhaps we have placed the scientist on an undeserved and impregnable pedestal.
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