No Insults or Snide Comments: Just a Serious Question why do Atheists hang out in the Science Section of YA?

Answer 1

I'm sure many of us do. Many scientific and skeptical minds are atheists as well. What' your point?

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Opps, nevermind, I saw the other question below...

Answer 2

I was not aware they did hang out in the science section, but is that really odd, giving that most scientists are atheists? Some believe they all hang out here in the R&S section.

Answer 3

I don't know if they do hang out in the science section, I'm guessing not, because they're too busy hanging out here insulting christians. Then again, maybe the intelligent ones do hang out in the science section, so we get stuck with the left overs. Not trying to be snide, just all I can figure. I sure wouldn't be hanging out in the gay or sexual forums because I have no interest in them, so its kinda illogical for atheists to hang out here. They do give the excuse that they're trying to protect themselves from our harrassment, but if they weren't in the religious/spiritual section, how would we be harrassing them?

Answer 4

I would guess that it's because people go where their faith leads them if it's actually the case that they hang out there. It's too bad that they don't realize that science has never proved Christianity or the Bible to be false. Here's how one scientist who is a Christian put it in a PBS interveiw where he was asked about his faith.

Dr. Francis S. Collins is Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently leads the Human Genome Project, directed at mapping and sequencing all of human DNA, and determining aspects of its function. His previous research has identified the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences

Collins spoke with Bob Abernethy of PBS, posted online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/transcripts/collins.html, in which he summaries the compatability of fact and faith thusly:

“I think there’s a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

“Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it’s rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, ‘Faith is actually plausible.’ You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone.”

Answer 5

Same reason christians hang out on the LBGT section--we go with what we know the most about

Answer 6

I'm just a passer-by, if it's any concern to you.

Answer 7

Birds of a feather......

Answer 8

It is their religion!