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[Guest sallystrothers]

Has anyone else delved much into the personal beliefs of many of the men and women who have paved the road for math and science?

I find it interesting that Darwin renounced all of his research on his death bed, Schrodinger dismissed science's ability to quantify our existance, Einstein devoutly pursued God, and Hawkins writes an entire novel revealing math to be infinitely poor at describing the universe. There are many more too, far too many to list.

It is also interesting to me that 47% of all PhD holding scientists believe in God (or god).

I myself have had the opportunity to study with and learn from some of the brightest minds in the world and their complex minds are laced with true realization of the bounds of math and science.

You can't help but look at our world and not deny our understanding to be that similar to an ant who suddenly wakes up in a child's ant farm.

The ant must first have the desire to understand its origin. Then it needs to look around and observe its surroundings. It may take the ant a very long time, even its entire life, to even realize there is a glass boundary to a world much larger then the ant farm.

Even if the ant sees through the glass, it then will begin to wonder about all the curious items (what one would find in a child's room) and how they effect its origin. There could be generations upon generations of ants theorizing about how the G.I Joe in the corner of the room miraculously gave birth to the ant farm and all of its ants. In the life span of an ant farm (my ant farms always seemed to die off rather quickly, or would suffer an unauthorized mass exodus into my sister's room) you can't deny the improbabilty they would learn that in Uncle Milton Co, a subsiduary of Mattel Inc., in Middleton, IA has been mass producing ant farms using the latest polymer glassing production line technology and marketing them through Toys R Us to the end consumer: John and Jane Doe's child; whom saw a commercial on Nickelodeon one Saturday morning and simply could not live without your exotic soon-to-be-home.