1st Edition

Can Scientists Believe Some Examples of the Attitude of Scientists to Religion

By Sir Nevill Mott Copyright 1991
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

In this collection of thought-provoking essays, a range of distinguished scientists and theologians, men and women, young and old, all with strong scientific training and deeply held religious beliefs, in the Judeao-Christian tradition, give their personal answers. They do not always agree, the views of each contributor being informed both by their particular scientific expertise and religious... Read more
Christianity without miracles?, Sir Nevill Mott; the scientist as priest, Dr John Habgood * scientific knowing and the knowledge of God, Christopher Moss * probability, belief and truth, Professor D.J. Bartholomew; science and the Christian world view, Dr P.E. Hodgson * the mystery of being human, Sir John Eccles, FRS * a physicist in the presence of the cross and the resurrection, Professor G. Ludwig * how can a scientist be a Christain in today's world?, Richard H. Bube * scientists and religion - notes by a simpliccio of our time, Professor V.I. Frenkel * faith and reason in Judaism, Professor Cyril Domb * a Catholic scientist, Dr Mark Howson * religious views of a condensed matter scientist, Juana Vivi Acrivos * belief in science and God - both require faith and logic, John J. MacClone * science in my Christian belief, Professor Semiramis Dionysion-Kouimtzi * faith amd mystery in science - reason and scepticism in religion, Professor C.W. Francis Everitt.

Biography

Sir Nevill Morr was a professor in Bristol from 1933-1954 and head of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge from 1954 until 1971. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977.