(April 14, 2011 at 6:22 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: The difference between an atheist and a theist is that an atheist has gone beyond (at least mentally) his local neighbourhood, his own country and his own Solar system to contemplate the existence of the Cosmos with it's BILLIONS of Galaxies and Billion Stars etc x 10 (to the power) of etc.
This has nothing to do with the definition of atheist, it's entirely possible that SOME people are atheist because of the process you describe, but it's certainly not true of all atheists, in fact some people arrive at being an atheist for entirely bad reasons, I've seen bad arguments convince people atheism is a rational position before.
I'm also sure there are many people who have considered the greater picture of the cosmos and arrived at being religious, so the 2 aren't linked in any strict way.
I would have agree that there is definitely some kind of trend amongst my peers where those who are interested in critical thinking are often interested in the sciences and frequently the study of space/cosmology. But it's far from definitive and certainly nothing to define atheists by.
