• Question: What religion are you? What effect does this have on your views of your studies??

    Asked by 06kitet to Laura, Lily, Mark, Paul, Sarah on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Laura Maliszewski

      Laura Maliszewski answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I was raised Catholic but am not particularly adherent. I do think it affected my decision to be a scientist though. As a very little girl I wanted to be a Jesuit, a type of monk who lives a life of study and writing. So in that way Catholicism was for me a culture of research and learning. Being a scientist is pretty much the same lifestyle, only secular!

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      Lily Asquith answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I am an atheist. I do not believe there is a `deity’ or `god’.

      I don’t think this has any direct effect on my studies. The question of whether or not god exists lies firmly in the realm of philosophy rather than science.

      If someone was claiming that there was a giant man in the sky who keeps that planets moving round the sun then I would have to argue against that claim, but most of the major religions describe god as a sort of entity that exists outside of time and does not have physical form. So I don’t have anything sensible to say about that.

      How about you?

    • Photo: Mark Roberts

      Mark Roberts answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Ok so I am a pantheist.

      This means I believe that the Universe and God are the same thing.

      As for how that effects my studies I’ve never really thought about it as I don’t think about science in that way I guess. I don’t think it effects my work at all.

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      Sarah Bardsley answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I am not religious. I guess as a scientist I want to see the evidence for things which might be a little incompatible with God. But I try to respect other people’s opinions.

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      Paul Roche answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      I don’t believe in any religion, so I’m an atheist – so it doesn’t affect my studies at all.

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