(January 18, 2010 at 5:32 am)leo-rcc Wrote:(January 18, 2010 at 3:14 am)theVOID Wrote: 2) Atheism has it's foundations in the scientific method, something that i am deeply interested in.
Atheism was around long before the scientific method. For as long as deities have been made up, there have been people that didn't believe in them. The scientific method has nothing to do with that.
Sorry, should have said "new atheism" or "modern atheism" as Science is indeed the intellectual foundation of these positions.
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