Questions for Athiests/Agnostics

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If I'm following the question correctly the answer is "no."

I assume that had Thomas Jefferson lived today he would be as much of an atheist as Hitchens or Dawkins but no one can blame him for clinging to the inane idea of creation because in the late 18th/early 19th century no one understood much if anything about astrophysics, evolution or genetics.

However, people who cling to fairy tales today when science has shown them to be thus are a different story. Remember religion asks no questions because it arrogantly thinks it already has all the answers.


The answer to part II is most likely not. If a mind like Jefferson's couldn't wean himself off of fantasy I have no illusions that I would have been able to either.

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What exactly has science shown me about religion? I didn't know there was a dichotomy there? Nor was I aware that religion, in whole or part, asks no questions. How could they provide answers without having a question? While I can conceed that a popularly exagerated majority of Christianity probably think less about the how and why they believe; That still doesn't mean they don't ask those questions ever. And the amount of deconverted Christians to atheism should be a testament that Religion (Christianity in this context) doesn't have all the answers.