The article "The Church of the Nonbelievers" states that "Highly intelligent people are mostly atheists" and that "technical and scientific people [are] possibly the social group that is least likely ... to be religious." Is that a good thing? It is a historical fact that 65 years ago, the professional groups that had the largest percentage of Nazi Party members were scientists and physicians. The Nazi Party of Hitler and the Communism of Stalin and Lenin were self-serving "religions" of godlessness, the common denominator being atheism.
The modern Intellectual Elite of America indeed seems to embrace atheism with a curious lack of discernment. As for my small intellect, I would much rather embrace Einstein's exclamation: "I have found no better expression than 'religious' for confidence in the rational nature of reality, insofar as it is accessible to human reason. Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism." "I do not think that it is necessarily the case that science and religion are natural opposites. In fact, I think that there is a very close connection between the two. Further, I think that science without religion is lame and, conversely, that religion without science is blind. Both are important and should work hand-in-hand."
By the way, what's the scientific explanation for what happened in Fatima, Portugal, on October 13, 1917?
Fritz Baumgartner,MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of SurgeryUCLA School of Medicine
