(December 5, 2018 at 12:10 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:(December 5, 2018 at 11:06 am)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Bingo! It's not a determining factor. They could all be chickens, and it wouldn't hold any relevance because the study of cosmology isn't bound by their religion (or being a farm animal), and neither are their findings. Atheism is an opinion and a religion, nothing more. I can believe its constructs for whatever reason I choose and call myself an "atheist" or not believe them at all, and still be considered an "atheist." At the end of the day, it's just an opinion about "god(s) vs no god."
You can't possibly be serious.
But thanks for disparaging religions.
Atheism is nothing but the ABSENCE of 1 thing.
A-theism. No theism. No theism.
It's nothing more than that.
Just like :
a-symmetry ... no symmetry, absence of symmetry
a-symptomatic ... no symptoms, absence of symptoms
Dismissing as preposterous the claims and notions of theists, is nothing more.
They do not merit consideration. At all. They're nothing more than the anachronistic meme's of long bygone eras.
That's hardly "religion" by any definition.
God isn't a requirement of "religion." Many Chinese people don't believe in any god whatsoever, but manage to be religious people, who attribute various "supernatural" attributes to things like their ancestors, birds, dragons, and what not. Other Chinese don't believe that at all and are still atheists. Many work in factories making aluminum and other goods. All atheists and no science necessary. Atheism is not a prerequisite of science. You could literally obliterate the notion of atheism from human existence and we would still have science. That doesn't mean atheists can't be scientists, and many are. But at the end of the day, most aren't and that's fine. It doesn't make them dumb or irrelevant. It just makes them opinionated and/or religious.