Why do some people believe..... that you can't be a scientist and still believe in God ?

Quite frankly, there's a marketplace of gods. Einstein's views aligned more with Spinoza's God than anything promoted by religion, which definitely feeds confusion into the system. The overwhelming consensus on what God even is boils down to some anthropomorphized overseer, which many prominent scientists have spoken out against. Even Einstein thought that religion was basically a collection of fairy tales.

But to go back to the first point, God is a fairly personal topic which people interpret in a wide variety of ways. Science is considerably less subjective and focuses its efforts in finding objectively consistent answers. It's two very distinct patterns of thought applied to each topic.

People are pretty good at noticing inconsistencies. When we observe that one line of thinking is applied to one thing and a completely separate line is applied to another, it's almost intuitive to believe that both things are incompatible.

The truth is usually messy, and it's in this messy truth that we can understand that people can think about different things in different ways. You can be flexible enough to apply different standards of scrutiny as you see fit. It's not a zero-sum game that requires going all-or-nothing

Science deals with demonstrable facts and develops theories to explain evidence of how the universe works. Believing in mythical beings requires one abandon the scientific principle.

Science arose from the middle ages as an alternative to faith.

Its premise rests in Greek Logic.

Logic requires "proof", thus there is no room for faith.

This core principle makes it difficult for a person to "practice science" while harboring an over-riding belief in faith.

I do differentiate science from engineering

I do differentiate scientific measurement from research.

Thus, I suppose that an individual could work on measurement and applied science, call themselves a scientist and still have faith.

I never believed that...

I believe that science is another path towards God and one day it will help human understand the whole divine better(not only by heart but also by mind..)

I don't see the two as unreconcilable, much of the methodology and philosophy that became science comes from gnostics and alchimists who believed that all science brings you closer to god because by understanding his creation you understand god a bit more. I'm not saying that this is what I think just that its not completely impossible to believe and be a scientist. lets say, as a mental exercise, we were to take these two propositions as the truth: 1:god exists 2:he created the world. then all our observations would be interpreted in that context. what seems more of an impossible feat is to be a scientist and have a very specific idea of god. certainly there are contradictions between scientific findings and the bible and obviously the logical solution would be that the scientific observation is reliable, god still exists but the bible is wrong. in that way, being a christian who thinks the bible cannot be wrong is incompatible with science, and probably also prevents someone from actually finding god, if there is such a thing because if god exists then science IS the discovery of god.

My brother is a Paleontologist, and a devout Catholic. He has managed to reconcile evolutionary science with the bible in his own heart.

Science fights against ignorance (lack of knowledge).
Religion fights against everything (including itself).
So end the end you have to either believe in what you can observe and test. Or believe in what you can't observe and test. That is the basis of why they are diametrically opposed as belief systems.
But the best outcome are those people that can hold conflicting beliefs without imploding. Those people are rare. Most people can't take the dissonance and mental stress.

Regardless of anything the only way to discern the faith of another is to accept what another states.

A lot of people believe that science and religion are incompatible because the teachings of many religions are contradictory to the findings of science. That being said, most religious people aren't fundamentalists.

Because these people think believers of God're inherently illogical, therefore deducing that 1 can't believe in God if a scientist. Many of these people could do with a little more self-introspection.

"Don't believe every quotation you see on the internet."
-Abraham Lincoln

What I don’t understand is why people keep posting their religious or atheistic ideas. They will not convert anyone, they just cause more friction and spawn arguments. People are different - let it go.

Stupidity. Same as most people who think you can only be faithful by going to church. When going to church doesn't make you any more faithful then standing in a garage makes you a car.

It’s a nice quote, but it’s removed from the context that the god that Einstein believed in is perhaps the least traditional notion of a god.

One thing is true on the Internet: if it’s a meme, only a fraction of the story is being told.

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