| I believe that while you can choose faith in the face of no evidence, someone who is analytical will typically not choose it. They see the lack of evidence, and categorize it with alien abductions, ghosts, and the Loch Ness Monster.
As far as Einstein and Hawking, well I don't know about Hawking, but Einstein was not religious. He professed himself to be atheist, but did not have very strong feelings about it. He disdained dogmatic religion, but hinted that he felt that there might be something at work. He also felt that there was no Purpose to Nature.
I think that you're absolutely right about education allowing you to think for yourself. This ability is what frees many people from the religious indoctrination that they had forced upon them as children. |
