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Re:All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists by michaelsbradley on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @02:52PM (#10193412)
Persons of deep faith have been, are, and can be great scientists.

See, for example, Scientific Geniuses and Their Jesuit Collaborators[1]. Not to mention that the author's field (physical cosmology) was deeply influenced by a Catholic priest-scientist[2]. There are numerous other examples spanning the last few centuries, including our own.

Faith and reason ought to go together and are entirely compatible with one another – at least that's the Catholic view, not new but recently articulated by Pope St. John Paul II.[3]

[1] http://www.strangenotions.com/scientific-geniuses-and-their-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

[3] http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/doc...

[&] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fides_et_Ratio

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Re:All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists by gay_genocide on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @02:59PM (#10193468)
I didn't mean to be disrespectful to either the religious or militant athiests. The idea that one group's "rationality" is somehow holier than the other gave me a chuckle. I read the linked article as more of a sociological statement.
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