Robert White and colleagues point out that most scientific luminaries from centuries past were religious (Nature 501, 33; 2013). This says a great deal about the societies that these scientists lived and worked in, but little about the value or truth of a theistic world view, as can be seen by considering what else these great names have in common: they were all men.
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Vaughan, S. Great scientists and society. Nature 502, 38 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/502038e
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/502038e