Religion is common. While spirituality is a very personal thing. Researchers reasoned, searches against knowledge could be in line with spirituality. (sefora.org)

VIVAnews -Albert Einstein, the world leading scientists, science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. But it turns out, the search of science may, in accordance with spirituality.

The conclusion was the result of the recent research of a group of sociologists who do research on 275 people leading scientists. The survey shows that 1 in 5 people scientists atheists themselves as the ' mental ' or their chaplain.

"Scientists are atheists but this quest for the essence of the spiritual truth through spirituality, it is generated and is in line with the work they do as scientists," said Elaine Howard Ecklund, sociologist of the Rice University who chaired the research.

Quoted from life's Little Mysteries, Ecklund mentions, many scientists See science and spirituality as a ' travel search for meaning "requires that no faith. On the other hand, religion need trust without empirical evidence and it is not compatible with the search of science.

"Spirituality is even at the most secular scholars nowadays," said Ecklund on his report published in the journal sociology of religion. "Spirituality is also present in the pikran good religious or atheist scientist scientists," he said.

These findings, said Ecklund, contrary to the notion that scientists and other groups that we as secular value need not be the question "why I am here ' in him. "They also have a question for humanity like that and the desire to find meaning," he said.

In addition, Ecklund mentions, there is a difference between religion and spirituality. "According to the interviewed scientists atheist, religion is common or collective effort, while spirituality is a very personal thing," he said.

To this end, researchers reasoned, searches against knowledge could be in line with spirituality.