西方自然科学家宗教信仰探析

科学和宗教在本质上是对立的。西方大部分的自然科学家都是宗教信仰者,在这些科学家身上,宗教和科学彰显着和谐。这些科学家所信仰的上帝并非我们常人所理解的干涉自然事件、决定人类命运的最高神,而是宇宙间的自然规律、世界秩序,这种信仰是一种无神论的信仰,是一种强烈的宇宙宗教情感,这种情感是他们进行科学研究的最高动力,激励着他们去发现自然界的一些最基本、最深邃的奥秘。因为在他们看来,上帝伫立在科学无限探索的尽头,研究科学的道路,就是通向上帝,逼近上帝之路。

Brief Analysis for the Religious Belief of the Nature Scientists

Religion and science are opposed to each other from the point of essence.Most of the western nature scientists believed in religion.Science and religion appeared to be harmonious in the minds of these scientists.To them, the GOD was not the highest supernatural being who intervenes in nature's occurrences or human being's fates, but the natural rules and universal orders in the universe.The belief was atheism, a kind of fierce religious sensation to the universe, which was the most important impetus for the...