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

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JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M
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.

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Sharon · F
@JoeyFoxx Whether on not a third party believes in the christian god depends on what one wishes to prove. Einstein is reported to have said "God doesn't play dice the universe" in respect of Quantum Theory*. Some christians claimed that proved he believed in their god. More recently, Stephen Hawking said that god did but threw them where we couldn't see them. Some christians claimed that proved he was a christian but when he died other christians gleefully announced that he was burning in Hell for being an Atheist.

The same dependency affects the size of the religion. Some christians like to boast about how many people are christians and claim it must be right because so many believe it. However, they often deny certain subgroups are "true christian" when including them is inconvenient for some reason. At least one christian here has claimed that Catholics are not really christians.



[c=#008099]*Despite not really accepting Quantum Theory, he had to make use of it for his work on the Photoelectric Effect, for which he won a Nobel Prize.
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