VIVAnews -Albert Einstein, the world's leading scientists, science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. But it turns out, the search of science could be in line with spirituality.
The conclusion was the result of the recent research of a group of sociologists who do research on 275 people leading scientists. From the survey conducted, it turns out that 1 in 5 people scientists atheists call themselves as the ' spiritual ' or their chaplain.
"Scientists are atheists but this search for the essence of spiritual truth through spirituality, it is generated and is consistent with the work they do as scientists," said Elaine Howard Ecklund, sociologist of Rice University who chaired the research it.
Quoted from Life's Little Mysteries, Ecklund mentions, many scientists see science and spirituality as a ' travel search for meaning ' that does not require faith. On the other hand, Religion need trust without empirical evidence and it is not compatible with the search of science.
"Spirituality is present even among the most secular scholars though," said Ecklund on his report published in the journal Sociology of Religion. "Spirituality is also present in the pikran good religious or atheist scientist scientists," he said.
These findings, said Ecklund, contrary to the notion that scientists and other groups that we value as secular does not have the question ' Why I am here ' in him. "They also have a question for humanity like that and the desire to find meaning," he said.
In addition, Ecklund mentions, there is a difference between religion and spirituality. "According to the interviewed scientists atheist, religion is communal or collective effort, while spirituality is a very personal thing," he said.
To that end, researchers reasoned, searches against knowledge could be in line with spirituality.
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