Why are the top scientists 70% atheists 23% agnostics and 7% believers?
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Dear Wanda,\n\nMy experience is that scientists in general have the same amount of faith (or non-faith) as the population at large. \n\nHaving said that, the degree to which some scientists dont believe in God does not make their belief or non-belief truth...\n\nTo me, what is more important (than the numbers) is the reasons that people (including scientists) give for their belief, or non-belief.\n\nYou mention that the people who believe that god exists are the dumbest people on earth... \n\nIn response... If you read the information in the links I provide below, and then still think that I am one of the dumbest people on earth (because I am a Christian theist), then please let me know, and I will accept your judgment, with humility.\n\nI used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ. \n\nFor a draft-version of my journey from atheism to Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html\n\nFor scientific and intellectual evidence for the existence of God, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/evidence.htm\n\nFor evidence for the historicity and truth of Jesus Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/jesus.htm\n\nFor information regarding scientists who believe in God, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/godsci/scientists.htm\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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Everyone sins. Including the people who grow our food, sell us food, and sell us our houses and I'm pretty sure a majority of those people are atheist.  It would be ridiculous to deny things because another person denies God.
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For the same reason "most pornographers" are atheist.
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I have schizophrenia and 9 out of my 10 personalities are atheists.  That might be why it seems like there is so many.
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I would be more worried about a Fundamentalist president than an Atheist one.  Most Atheists operate on logic and reason.  Fundamentalists are f*cking crazy.
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No.  All an atheist is saying is that they don't believe in God.  One could be an atheist and still not believe in science.
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Actually, very few atheists exist anyway, or if they do it is in complete inconsistency. A true atheist would also be an anarchist. Thus robbing, pillaging, murdering at will should be no problem for them (i.e. the law of the jungle, eat or be eaten) An animal wouldn't think twice about stealing if it benefited the individual.\n\nMost people that claim to be atheists then, I would say, yes are uncertain that their agnostic beliefs hold real truth, and are at odds with becoming true atheists and denying all sense of morality.\n\nWhy do they hold on to morality that in its origin was derived from God? Usually when you hate something you would tend to distance yourself as far from it as possible, however the atheists, in their walk in society at least, for the most part, seem to live according to the same laws as believers.\n\nIt's a contradiction they can't escape until embracing the only thing they claim to believe....that is that we are nothing more than an animal, a part of the accident called the milky way.....earth and its nearest neighbors.\n\nVery few are willing to do this.....the rest end up on America's most wanted.
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Because the things they are taught to believe are incredulous and often raise a question or two. And they are prone to doubt the fact that Jesus of Nazareth(real name Yeshua Bin Yusef *proven*) was a zombie. Because of this, and other things, makes it more reasonable to turn to Atheism and Agnosticism(me). Some do have faith, apparently like the ones that posted before, but they are the minority.\n\nSo why do they have so little faith? Because most of the **** is too incredible to believe
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Hard to accept? Nonsense. I'm a believer with quite a few atheist friends. I believe; they don't. Simple as that.
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This article is about 5 years old, but:\n\nThe atheist population is about 29.4 million, roughly 14.1% of the American community.
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Yes. Among other things, atheists believe in the scientific method, they believe in the material world, they believe only in what they know through their senses, they believe in their own happiness and in societal values (whatever they may be), and they believe religiously in the atheistic article of faith that there is no God.
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Living in an extremely religious country I'm afraid I have to agree with you. \nThe most educated and knowledgeable people I know are atheists, agnostics, secular humanists.\nI don't think it's a coincidence.
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Atheists are under represented in prison (i.e. they go to prison less), they divorce less, tend to be more educated.  Religion isn't the great thing believers make it out to be.
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its not that these people werent thinking of science it was just that much of the "masses"(peasents) weren't educated. the ones that were were from the clergy(church) so a science was not part of religion as we all know because God invented it all and there shouldnt be any questions or impovements but there were scientists who had ideas like devincci he had sketches of some good working tech that we have now.
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i am an atheist, and i have the same concept of time as you do. Also, i think the world will eventually be on average atheist, because science will do what it hasnt been able to do without a doubt yet, and that is to prove god doesnt exist, but there will always be people who do believe in a higher power
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There are a bunch of half-baked believers that physically exist.
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If you know any scientists personally... they will pretty much tell you that it's a majority...not everyone, but there are all kind of crazy ideas in the outer realms of science that are minority beliefs...\n\nbut, just because a majority of the scientists think that it's true, doesn't mean that it is... it just means that all the current evidence points in one direction... that is one thing science proves over and over again...