Re: [Phys-l] Richard Dawkins Answers Reddit Questions

[carmelo@pacific.net.sg]

It could be of interest to some of you that the following scientists  
and philosophers were awarded Templeton Prize (>US$1000,000) The prize  
has been criticized by Richard Dawkins in his book, The God Delusion,  
that the prize was given "usually to a scientist who is prepared to  
say something nice about religion".

1995	Paul Davies (Theoretical physicist)
1996	Dr. Bill Bright (Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ)
1997	Pandurang Shastri Athavale (philosopher, founder of Swadhyay Movement)
1998	Sigmund Sternberg (Philanthropist Founder of the Three Faith Forum)
1999	Ian Barbour (Professor Emeritus at Carleton College)
2000	Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
2001	Rev. Arthur Peacocke (Former Dean of Clare College, Cambridge)
2002	Rev. John Polkinghorne (Physicist and theologian)
2003	Holmes Rolston III (Philosopher)
2004	George F. R. Ellis (Cosmologist and philosopher)
2005	Charles Townes (Nobel laureate and physicist)
2006	John D. Barrow (Cosmologist and theoretical physicist)
2007	Charles Taylor (Philosopher)
2008	Rev. Prof. Micha³ Heller (Physicist and philosopher)
2009	Bernard d'Espagnat (Physicist)
2010	Francisco J. Ayala (Biologist)


Quoting "Rauber, Joel" <Joel.Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>:
> As I recall John M. said that those who *bring* their religious   
> habits and ways of knowing into the lab are significantly   
> handicapped . . . This says nothing about those who successfully   
> decouple their religious ways of knowing from their scientific ways   
> of knowing; i.e. those who do not bring those religious habits into   
> the lab.
>
> I believe it's an important distinction.