UMC -- open hearts, open minds. Ha!

[vorlon13]

and then there are the mormon apologists; they don't have regular lies, they have damned lies, abominations and chutzpah.

[Lek]

I am an atheist, as are some 90% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences, and while my intellectual and educational credentials are nowhere near those of the NAS membership, the scientific method leads to atheism, as the atheistic stance would be the "null hypothesis" that would need to be adjudicated/disproved based upon scientific and empirical evidence.

Do you think scientists are more qualified to make a decision about whether or not God exists than non-scientists, say a garbage collector?  I often hear people stating that most scientists are not believers as a good reason to accept atheism, and I don't agree with that idea.  Scientists derive their beliefs from testing the universe for proof of God.  But they have no idea of whether this universe just came about from nothing or whether it has existed from eternity.  Either choice cannot be proven from scientific study.  How do their "educational and intellectual credentials" make scientists any more qualified to make decisions about the existence of God than anyone else?

[Minimalist]

Do you think scientists are more qualified to make a decision about whether or not God exists than non-scientists, say a garbage collector?

As opposed to superstitious twits?  Yes.

[Jehanne]

You get an A for effort, Jehanne.

But fuckwits will always react with repression.  It's what their fucking god teaches them.

Thanks.  My point in posting on their website was to give readers of the article an understanding that people (including, children) embrace atheism for a reason; of course, there are those who just want to piss their parents off, but then again, there are kiddos in atheistic homes who are embracing a religion for the exact same reason.