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Originally Posted by John13
Religion and god belief is a silly superstition and very anti-science.
I like to hang with those who share that view. I'm ex-Catholic so I have seen both sides.
A woman that goes to church would be a very bad match for me.
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If a woman is a bad match for you, then that's your preference and I can respect that.
But the first bit is offensive. Why take a jab at religious people? Religion is different things for different people--not everyone who practices religion is just like everyone else who does.
For example, there are plenty of scientists who are religious and painting all of us who practice a religion with such a broad brush is very inaccurate. You say you are ex-Catholic, many actual clergy and priests are scientists as well as laypeople. While some religions or denominations may be anti-science, there is no "anti science" in the Catholicism (as well as many other religions... but I will focus on Catholicism since you and I have it in common). Here's a list of famous Catholic scientists (both laypeople and clergy). It's from Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...c_scientists):
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799) – Mathematician who wrote on differential and integral calculus
Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) – Father of mineralogy[6]
Albertus Magnus (c.1206–1280) – Patron saint of natural sciences
Mariano Artigas (1938–2006) – Spanish physicist, philosopher and writer who received the Templeton Foundation Prize in 1995
André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836) – One of the main discoverers of electromagnetism
Francisco J. Ayala (1934–present) – Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine,[7][8]
Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856) – Noted for contributions to molecular theory and Avogadro's Law
Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294) – Franciscan friar and early advocate of the scientific method
Daniello Bartoli (1608–1685) – Jesuit priest and one of the first to see the equatorial belts of Jupiter
Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878) – Pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena
Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) – Awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his co-discovery of radioactivity
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) – British pioneer in X-ray crystallography in molecular biology.[9][10]
Claude Bernard (1813–1878) - Physiologist who helped to apply scientific methodology to medicine
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (1786–1856) – Mathematician known for Binet's formula and his contributions to number theory
Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) – Physicist who established the reality of meteorites and studied polarization of light
Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848) – Priest and mathematician who contributed to differentiation, the concept of infinity, and the binomial theorem
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679) – Often referred to as the father of modern biomechanics
Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787) – Jesuit priest and polymath known for his atomic theory and many other scientific contributions
Raoul Bott (1923–2005) – Mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense.[11][12]
Thomas Bradwardine (c.1290–1349) – Archbishop and one of the discoverers of the mean speed theorem
Louis Braille (1809–1852) – Inventor of the Braille reading and writing system
Martin Stanislaus Brennan (1845–1927) – Priest, astronomer and writer
James Britten (1846–1924) – Botanist, member of the Catholic Truth Society and Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.[13]
Jean Buridan (c.1300–after 1358) – French priest who developed the theory of impetus
Alexis Carrel (1873–1944) – Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering vascular suturing techniques
John Casey (mathematician) (1820–1891) – Irish geometer known for Casey's theorem
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712) – First to observe four of Saturn's moons and the co-discoverer of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter
Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857) – Mathematician who was an early pioneer in analysis
Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647) – Mathematician known for his work in optics and motion, calculus, and for introducing logarithms to Italy
Andrea Cesalpino (c.1525–1603) – Botanist who also theorized on the circulation of blood
Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) – Published the first translation of the Rosetta Stone
Guy de Chauliac (c.1300–1368) – The most eminent surgeon of the Middle Ages
Albert Claude (1899–1983) – Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his contributions to cytology
Christopher Clavius (1538–1612) – Jesuit who was the main architect of the Gregorian calendar
Mateo Realdo Colombo (1516–1559) – Discovered the pulmonary circuit,[14] which paved the way for Harvey's discovery of circulation
Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984) – Shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his wife for their discovery of the Cori cycle
Gerty Cori (1896–1957) – Biochemist who was the first American woman win a Nobel Prize in science (1947)[15]
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792–1843) – Formulated laws regarding rotating systems, which later became known as the Corialis effect
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806) – Physicist known for developing Coulomb's law
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) – First person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology
Johann Baptist Cysat (c.1587–1657) – Jesuit priest known for his study of comets
René Descartes (1596–1650) – Father of modern philosophy and analytic geometry
Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) – Historian of science who made important contributions to hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics
Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884) – Chemist who established new values for the atomic mass of thirty elements
Christian de Duve (1917–2013) – Nobel Prize winning cytologist and biochemist
John Eccles (1903–1997) – Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the synapse[16]
Gerhard Ertl (1936– ) – German physicist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces[17]
Stephan Endlicher (1804–1849) – Botanist who formulated a major system of plant classification
Bartolomeo Eustachi (c.1500–1574) – One of the founders of human anatomy
Hieronymus Fabricius (1537–1619) – Father of embryology
Gabriele Falloppio (1523–1562) – Pioneering Italian anatomist who studied the human ear and reproductive organs
Mary Celine Fasenmyer (1906–1996) – Roman Catholic sister and mathematician, founder of Sister Celine's polynomials
Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) – Number theorist who contributed to the early development of calculus
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) – Awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his work in induced radioactivity
Fibonacci (c.1170–c.1250) – Popularized Hindu-Arabic numerals in Europe and discovered the Fibonacci sequence
Hippolyte Fizeau (1819–1896) – The first person to determine experimentally the velocity of light[18]
Léon Foucault (1819–1868) – Invented the Foucault pendulum to measure the effect of the earth's rotation
Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826) – Discovered Fraunhofer lines in the sun's spectrum
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827) – Made significant contributions to the theory of wave optics
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) – Father of modern science[19]
Luigi Galvani (1737–1798) – Formulated the theory of animal electricity
Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) – French astronomer and mathematician who studied the transit of Mercury and named the aurora borealis
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850) – Chemist known for two laws related to gases
Riccardo Giacconi (1913– ) – Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy
Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) – Nobel Prize-winning pathologist and physician
Paula González (1932–present) – Roman Catholic sister and professor of biology
Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663) – Jesuit who discovered the diffraction of light
Robert Grosseteste (c.1175–1253) – Called "the first man to write down a complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment."[20]
Peter Grünberg (1939– ) – German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.[21]
Johannes Gutenberg (c.1398–1468) – Inventor of the printing press
Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy (1783–1875) – One of the pioneers of modern geology[22]
John Harsanyi (1929–2000) – Hungarian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner.[23]
René Just Haüy (1743–1822) – Priest, and father of crystallography
Eduard Heis (1806–1877) – Astronomer who contributed the first true delineation of the Milky Way
Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644) – Founder of pneumatic chemistry
George de Hevesy (1885–1966) – Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate.[24]
Charles Hermite (1822–1901) – Mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, elliptic functions, and algebra
John Philip Holland (1840–1914) – Developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U.S. Navy
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836) – The first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants
Athanasius Kircher (c.1601–1680) – Jesuit scholar who has been called "the last Renaissance man"
Brian Kobilka (1955– ) – American Nobel Prize winning professor who teaches at Stanford University School of Medicine.[25][26]
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713–1762) – French astronomer noted for cataloguing stars, nebulous objects, and constellations
René Laennec (1781–1826) – Physician who invented the stethoscope
Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) – Mathematician and astronomer known for Lagrangian points and Lagrangian mechanics
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) – French naturalist, biologist and academic whose theories on evolution preceded those of Darwin
Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943) – Nobel Prize winner who identified and classified the human blood types
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) – Famed mathematician and astronomer who has been called the "Newton of France"
Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833) – Pioneer in entomology
Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) – Father of modern chemistry[27]
Jérôme Lejeune (1926–1994) – Pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery of the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities
Georges Lemaître (1894–1966) – Father of the Big Bang theory[28]
Anthony James Leggett (1938– ) – His pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.[29]
Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694) – Father of comparative physiology[30]
Étienne-Louis Malus (1775–1812) – Discovered the polarization of light
Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) – Father of long-distance radio transmission
Edme Mariotte (c.1620–1684) – Priest who independently discovered Boyle's Law
Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) – Known for the Maupertuis principle and for being the first president of the Berlin Academy of Science
Craig Mello (1960– ) – American biologist who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize, with Andrew Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference.[31]
Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) – Father of genetics
Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) – Father of acoustics and mathematician for whom Mersenne primes are named.
Charles W. Misner (1932–present) – American cosmologist dedicated to the study of general relativity
Kenneth R. Miller (1948–present) – American cell biologist and molecular biologist who teaches at Brown University.[32]
Mario J. Molina (1943–present) - Mexican chemist and one of the precursors to the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole (1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry).
Peter Joseph Moloney (1891-1989) -Canadian immunologist and pioneering vaccine researcher, who worked out the first large-scale purification of insulin in 1922. (International Gairdner Award 1967) [33]
Gaspard Monge (1746–1818) – Father of descriptive geometry
Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771) – Father of modern anatomical pathology[34]
Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858) – Founder of modern physiology[35]
Joseph Murray (1919–2012) – Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate.[36]
John von Neumann (1903–1957) – Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath[37] who converted to Catholicism[38]
Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770) – Discovered the phenomenon of osmosis in natural membranes.
William of Ockham (c.1288–c.1348) – Franciscan Friar known for Ockham's Razor
Nicole Oresme (c.1320–1382) – 14th century bishop who theorized the daily rotation of the earth on its axis
Barnaba Oriani (1752–1832) – Known for Oriani's theorem and for his research on Uranus
Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) – Created the first modern atlas and theorized on continental drift
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) – French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philosopher
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) – Father of bacteriology[3][39]
Max Perutz (1914–2002) – Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry[40][41][42]
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) – Discovered the Orion Nebula
Georg von Peuerbach (1423–1461) – Called the father of mathematical and observational astronomy in the West[43]
Giuseppe Piazzi (1746–1826) – Theatine priest who discovered the asteroid Ceres and did important work cataloguing stars
Jean Picard (1620–1682) – French priest and father of modern astronomy in France[44]
Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998) – Croatian-Swiss organic chemist, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for chemistry.
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) – French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer and philosopher of science
John Polanyi (1929– ) – Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for his research in chemical kinetics.[45]
Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) – Hungarian polymath who made contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) – Awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions to neuroscience
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757) – Scientific polymath known especially for his study of insects
Francesco Redi (1626–1697) – His experiments with maggots were a major step in overturning the idea of spontaneous generation
Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878) – Chemist with two laws governing the specific heat of gases named after him[46]
Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598–1671) – Jesuit priest and the first person to measure the acceleration due to gravity of falling bodies
Wilhelm Roentgen (1845–1923) – Discovered X-rays.
Frederick Rossini (1899–1990) – Priestley Medal and Laetare Medal winning chemist.[47]
Theodor Schwann (1810–1882) – Founder of the theory of the cellular structure of animal organisms
Angelo Secchi (1818–1878) – Jesuit priest who developed the first system of stellar classification
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865) – Early pioneer of antiseptic procedures and the discoverer of the cause of puerperal fever
Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799) – Priest and biologist who laid the groundwork for Pasteur's discoveries
Nicolas Steno (1638–1686) – Bishop, and father of stratigraphy
Francesco Lana de Terzi (1631–1687) – Jesuit priest who has been called the father of aeronautics
Louis Jacques Thénard (1777–1857) – Discovered hydrogen peroxide
Theodoric of Freiberg (c.1250–c.1310) – Gave the first geometrical analysis of the rainbow
Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) – Inventor of the barometer
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397–1482) – Italian mathematician, astronomer and cosmographer
Richard Towneley (1629–1707) – Mathematician and astronomer whose work contributed to the formulation of Boyle's Law
Louis René Tulasne (1815–1885) – Biologist with several genera and species of fungi named after him
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763–1829) – Discovered the chemical element beryllium
Pierre Vernier (1580–1637) – Mathematician who invented the Vernier scale
Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877) – Mathematician who predicted the discovery of Neptune
Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) – Father of modern human anatomy
François Viète (1540–1603) – Father of Modern Algebra[48]
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) – Renaissance anatomist, scientist, mathematician, and painter
Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703) – Mathematician known for Viviani's theorem, Viviani's curve and his work in determining the speed of sound
Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) – Physicist known for the invention of the battery[4]
Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen (1841–1900) – Geologist and paleontologist
Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897) – Often called the Father of Modern Analysis[49]
E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956) – English mathematician who made contributions to applied mathematics and mathematical physics
Eric F. Wieschaus (1947– ) – He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) – One of the founders of scientific archaeology
Antonino Zichichi (1929– ) – Italian nuclear physicist, former President of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare[50]