(July 3, 2019 at 10:30 pm)Fireball Wrote:(July 3, 2019 at 10:18 pm)Jehanne Wrote: One can be an open atheist and at the same time a well-respected scientist:
Pew Research Center -- Scientists and Belief
In particular, I was pleased to see the percentage of physicists and astronomers who were wholly atheistic:
Kind of surprised by the "Biological and Medical" atheists being proportionately smaller than the "Physics and Astronomy" crowd, of which I am one. I knew few people with biology degrees who were not atheists. Maybe the medical people made a difference?
You should be disturbed by the higher percentage of "don't know".
And I'm going to guess that they included a high number of chiropractors in the survey.

Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.