A similar article had come some time back that tracked that a significant chunk of the scientist community had belief in God. Here.
There has been a lot of heated discussion between the theory of natural selection and intelligent design and both of these theory don't have any proof. So for the time being they are only hypothesis. After all no body has seen God till now and neither has somebody lived through ages to see natural selection in action and vouch for it. Therefore it is fruitless to talk about whether god exists or not. The only question I would like to put across is, does having faith in a power beyond imagination have any repercussions on the conduct of human being in general and scientists & business men in particular?
To answer this question let me take two scientists who are equal in every respect except for their belief in god. One is religious (test) and the other is an atheist (control). Will one's career graph be better over the other? GOD will definitely not come and tell the secrets of nature in the ears of our religious guy. And since both of our gentlemen are scientists we can assume that the have equal scientific temperament. The only thing that I see might differ in the life of the two gentlemen is of having patience at work! (Research is definitely more about brains but is also about the level of persistence on can show in the face of obstacles.) Under the trying situation when years of your work have left you with nothing but written crap, the hope of some supernatural being seeing you will give the hope to persist. The hope to take the one extra step. As one of my professor used to say 'People just give in when they are at the door step of success!'
The same thing I believe goes with the businessmen. Optimism and persistence are the key to survival in any cut throat business. And it is belief that a businessman reposes in God that gives him the strength to get up every morning.
But just having faith in God and doing nothing else will not make you successful. If that had been the case India would have been the most prosperous nation given the bounty of hermits that we have. The optimism that comes to a spiritual person cannot compensate for hard work. It can only act as an adjuvant.
There has been a lot of heated discussion between the theory of natural selection and intelligent design and both of these theory don't have any proof. So for the time being they are only hypothesis. After all no body has seen God till now and neither has somebody lived through ages to see natural selection in action and vouch for it. Therefore it is fruitless to talk about whether god exists or not. The only question I would like to put across is, does having faith in a power beyond imagination have any repercussions on the conduct of human being in general and scientists & business men in particular?
To answer this question let me take two scientists who are equal in every respect except for their belief in god. One is religious (test) and the other is an atheist (control). Will one's career graph be better over the other? GOD will definitely not come and tell the secrets of nature in the ears of our religious guy. And since both of our gentlemen are scientists we can assume that the have equal scientific temperament. The only thing that I see might differ in the life of the two gentlemen is of having patience at work! (Research is definitely more about brains but is also about the level of persistence on can show in the face of obstacles.) Under the trying situation when years of your work have left you with nothing but written crap, the hope of some supernatural being seeing you will give the hope to persist. The hope to take the one extra step. As one of my professor used to say 'People just give in when they are at the door step of success!'
The same thing I believe goes with the businessmen. Optimism and persistence are the key to survival in any cut throat business. And it is belief that a businessman reposes in God that gives him the strength to get up every morning.
But just having faith in God and doing nothing else will not make you successful. If that had been the case India would have been the most prosperous nation given the bounty of hermits that we have. The optimism that comes to a spiritual person cannot compensate for hard work. It can only act as an adjuvant.
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