Wolfy, it seems to me you have the impression that a passion for science is a prerequisite for being an atheist. If so, then relax; it's not. I am a permanent atheist, yet I can actually go for several days without thinking about atoms and molecules, or trying to come up with the next Big Science Thing. I'm not even mathematically minded - anything more than basic arithmetic is, to me, veering into the arcane realms of higher magic. In terms of the products of science I am, as Edmund Blackadder once said "one of these people who are quite happy to [use them], but have no idea how [they] work."
All that said, however, a basic understanding in general scientific principles is always going to be useful. It would still be irrelevant to being a theist or an atheist though.
All that said, however, a basic understanding in general scientific principles is always going to be useful. It would still be irrelevant to being a theist or an atheist though.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
