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He was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University and Senior Astronomer Emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Gingerich wrote about people of faith in science history. [255] [256] Charles W. Misner (1932–2023): American physicist and one of the authors of Gravitation. His work provided ...
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God, which there isn't. I'm an atheist. [367] In addition, Hawking stated:
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... The following is largely a link to lists of notable people who left Christianity, sorted by the religious or non-religious ...
American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic. Morgan Spurlock [68] United States: American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter and playwright, raised Methodist but became agnostic later in life. Joseph Stalin: Soviet Union
Willis Vernon Cole (1882-1939) – American poet and author, Christian Science practitioner tried for practising medicine [n 14] Sibyl Marvin Huse (1866-1939) — American author of religious books and teacher/Reader of Christian Science [61] [62] Godfrey John (d. about 2003) – Welsh poet and Christian Science teacher [63] [64]
J. Neil Schulman - Libertarian science fiction writer who states he met, or experienced, God and that this ended his atheism. The first such experience would have occurred when he was 35. That stated he remains skeptical of "the church" and does not belong to any religion. [15] Dave Sim - comics writer and anti-feminist.
William G. Pollard: author of a significant amount of material in the areas of science and religion such as Physicist and Christian: A dialogue between the communities (1961) William B. Provine: author of the chapter on "Evolution, Religion, and Science" (pp. 652–666) in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (2006) [16] Mihajlo Pupin ...
His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th-century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history", because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his ...