Do Scientists Believe In God?

Some of them do. But the reason will surprise you.

Scientists have given us the comforts and accomplishments of the modern age, from the light bulb to spacecraft. They managed to do this because of their relentless and uncompromising pursuit of objective truth.

Scientific facts are not a matter of opinion where you and I can “agree to disagree.” It is as objective as knowledge can be.

If there is disagreement on the value of the speed of light, neither could we have made it to the moon, nor would our mobile phones work.

So when a scientist says that he/she believes in god, believers take it to mean that god must be true — because it's coming from the seekers of objective truth. Not that the believers really needed this validation (they were believers already), but belief is all about post-rationalization and confirmation bias. Hence, “validation” from a few scientists goes a long way.

‘So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.’ — Ben Franklin.

They conveniently forget that a majority of scientists do not believe in god.