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

@newjaninev2

@newjaninev2 But Einstein believed in God. Probable the Jewish God, I'm not sure.

@usher Read the above quote from his letter to Murray W. Gross on 26 April 1947.

All Abrahamic religions are centred on claims of a personal god (one watching over you personally), but Einstein [i]rejected[/i] the concept of a personal god

@CopperCicada yes, i can see how complex the question can be, and the very open interpretation of how God can be interpreted , but I was hoping for a opinion on the scientists who once lived who did believe in God. Like Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin...

@newjaninev2 yes, i agree on what is describes as a personal God. But he did believe in a God for all. Even so there are many more scientists who believe in God, Charles Darwin, Carl Sagan and a few more

@usher Sagan’s views mirrored Einstein’s, but were even more sceptical.

Darwin expressed his views in a letter to John Fordyce on 7 May 1879: "In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God - I think that generally (and more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.”

It seems that the personal views of individuals are of great interest to those who need to be directed by external authorities, but for science they have no merit, because science has no authorities... none whatsoever.

@newjaninev2 My question was not really on Einstein or Carl Sagan, but rather on how belief in both God and Science is unacceptable to some. This of course is the fulcrum of the question. No scientist in particular.