Ignorant Atheists?

[Psalm 23]

I've heard from several people in debates that Atheists are logical, open minded, reasonable etc.

Some atheists are logical, open minded and reasonable. The majority of online atheists appear to be nothing but disgruntled Christians.

I was in a debate with an Atheist over the population of Theists in the Scientific community. He thought roughly 90% of Scientists were Atheistic.

He is wrong. 70% of the scientific field disbelief in a higher power. But these same atheists all agree that they cannot disprove a higher power.

I showed him this:
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/0...s_god.html

This link shows that 70% of Scientists believed in God. I thought the conversation would be over but he kept making excuses like it was a bias study or they lied and he was practically denying it as if it wasn't there.

Your sources are correct. The percentage of atheistic-scientists are roughly around seventy percent.

Then he made claims saying that all believers are creationists and they think that the Earth is 6000 years old and we're all made in the way we are in the present.

I'm a devout Christian and I believe the earth is 4 billion years old.

I showed him this:
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA111.html

That link says 0.15% of relevant Scientists are creationists. He kept making more excuses about this too.

Once again, this is also true. But does that mean creation is false?

I found it astonishing how this person could claim to be logical and then seem to be as closed minded and bigoted as the fanatical creationists he opposes.

I believe everything was created before it could evolve. Before creation, evolution didn't exist. We are living under certain laws of the Universe, that's why it's possible for our bodies to adapt to the earth's rapid climate change. Imagine human-kind if we didn't adapt? Yikes!

Darwin was Catholic.