Gerald R. Baron
1 min readOct 1, 2021

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Hello Olivier, I'd like to hear more why you believe science is incompatible with belief. Perhaps we should be more specific as science cannot believe anything, it is just a result of what scientists do. But do you believe doing science in incompatible with belief? How does that work given the beliefs of scientists from the founders of Western science like Galileo, Kepler, Newton and almost all of them, to the 90% of Nobel laureates who believed in some form of higher power, to the over 50% of practicing scientists today who believe in some form of transcendence? Is science not science if it is produced by a scientist who believes in God or a spirit world?

The point here in this article, however, is not about whether a scientist is a believer in God or Christianity, but that whatever direction you go, whether toward theism or atheism/physicalism, belief in something unproven and unprovable is necessary. I suspect it is that idea that you object to. But, how does one explain those who believe in the multiverse, for example. It is unknown, unproven, and almost certainly unknowable. An infinity of universes is needed to explain away design or a designer, yet, takes as much faith in the invisible, or more, than belief in a creator.

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Gerald R. Baron
Gerald R. Baron

Written by Gerald R. Baron

Dawdling at the intersection of faith, science, philosophy and theology. Author of It Was My Turn, a Vietnam story.

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