(November 24, 2018 at 1:31 pm)blue grey brain Wrote:
- Atheism does not merely concern rejecting deities, as you'll see on Wikipedia/atheism, or point 2 below.
- Modern Science is an atheistic endeavour. Since we didn't always have modern science, it is probably no surprise that Modern Science emerged from "archaic science/religion/protoscience" in the scientific revolution, as religion was literally dropped from science in the scientific revolution or age of enlightenment. See "Wikipedia/protoscience", or "Wikipedia/Scientific revolution". A quick example: See when "astrology/religion/archaic science" was dropped from "modern science/astronomy", on Wikipedia/astrology and astronomy.
- This does not mean I am saying religious scientists can't exist. However, atheistic scientists are scientists that tend to objectively analyse the truth value of religion; they precisely align with the scientific endeavour of disregarding religious endeavour. This contrasts non-atheistic scientists on this matter, who disregard or "turn off" scientific endeavour while analyzing religion.
Scientists certainly can hold religious beliefs, but scientific method itself is not a religion, but a neutral tool. It is not there to be used to point to any club/deity.