Do scientists believe in God? Most of them do, concludes Reporter Howard Whitman after a cross-country tour of the nation's laboratories.
There are skeptics, of course, Whitman concedes in an article in the current issue of Collier's. But the majority of scientists, like Newton, consider themselves children playing on the seashore while the ocean of truth lies undiscovered in the distance.
"What we know is just the tiniest fragment," said a Wayne University professor of physics. "For the whole, we depend upon faith." Even the "law of chance" presupposes a law, argued an anthropologist. "Whose law? For me, I prefer the belief in...
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