Will there be fewer atheists in the future?

Question

I think that there will definitely be less.

The "theory" of evolution will be abandoned by scientists, just like the theory that the world was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth has been.

Answer 1

Evolution is one of the most strongly supported theories in all of science. It is nowhere near a theory in crisis.

This claim has been made constantly since even before Darwin. In all that time, the theory of evolution has only gotten stronger. Prior to the development of evolutionary theory, almost 100 percent of relevant scientists were creationists. Now the number is far less than 1 percent. The numbers continue to drop as the body of evidence supporting evolutionary theory continues to build. Thus, claims of scientists abandoning evolution theory for creationism are untrue.

Answer 2

You do realize that it was Christians who put scientists in prison for suggesting that the Earth revolved around the sun, right?
And the Bible said in many different places that the Earth was flat.
"take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it (Job 38:12-13)
"The earth takes shape like clay under a seal." (Job 38:14)
"[T]he devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them" (Matthew 4:1-12) --{The world would have to be flat to see all the kingdoms of the world.}
"The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great. The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth." (Daniel 4:10-11) --{The "whole" earth? No matter how tall the tree was, even if it was only a dream, it would not have been visible from the other side of the earth. }

It wasn't modern scientists who claimed that the Earth was flat. Modern scientists have so much evidence pointing to evolution that only the most blind and closed-minded can refuse to believe it. And it's funny that those same people who call scientists "stupid" for accepting the theory of evolution have no problems with ANY other areas of science. Only this ONE area--and not for lack of EVIDENCE--but simply because it disagrees with the first chapter of a 2000 year old book that was written by superstitious middle-eastern sheep herders. Believe in Creationism if you want, but your deciding to believe in a fairy tale does not make hundreds of thousands of biologists, geologists, anthropologists all over the world with doctorates in science "stupid".
Oh...and another suggestion...learn what the scientific definition of the word "theory" is. It makes people look ignorant to put the word "theory" in quotation marks as if they're trying to insinuate that the word "theory" is interchangable with the words "opinion" or "belief". Religion depends on opinion and belief, not science.

Answer 3

You know, the geocentric theory is supported by the Bible and as such, was also supported by the Church, until the evidence started really piling up.

And of course, Satan was able to see all the kingdoms of the earth from one mountain, so either the world in the Bible is flat, or he's one tricky devil.

Answer 4

Really?

Read your Sciences history ...... the world was flat and sun revolved around earth idea was one of churches' main selling point, to prove earth was the chosen place by god ....... those opposing it was burnt on the stake, please make phone call to Giordano Bruno.

Aristotle and Plato had found out Earth was a finite spherical shape 300 years before Jesus Christs was born ......

Answer 5

the "theory" of Evolution has been abondoned by scientists. Now, its a fact. They teach it at school. No, there will be more athiests in the future.

Answer 6

Evolution is a fact and a theory.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html

It won't be abandoned and it is not linked to atheism.

There will be more atheists in the future.

Answer 7

No, far more. Perpetual theistic lies, especially regarding evolution and cosmology will drive more and more people away from religion.

Answer 8

Fortunately, random opinions not based on fact have never been shown to carry any significance.

Answer 9

I get a real kick out of hearing Christians say "Evolution is just a theory... it's not 'fact'."

First of all, evolution is strictly a biological science. It has nothing whatsoever to do with or to say about the origins of the universe or the world. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the origins of life. It has only to do with changes to the genetic makeup (allele frequency) within populations of organisms, over time. (Anybody who wants to know what the current scientific thinking is on the origins of life can go look up 'abiogenesis'.)

Scientific theories are not just 'ideas', as the scientifically illiterate seem to regard them. Theories occupy a higher stratum of importance in science than do mere 'facts'... theories EXPLAIN facts. The 'theory of evolution' provides an explanatory framework for the OBSERVED FACT of changes to the genetic makeup of populations of organisms, over time. The mechanisms that has been identified... AND OBSERVED... to account for those changes are 'genetic drift' (statistical variations in allele frequency), and genetic mutations (random), operated on by 'natural selection' (NOT random). In other words, the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators.

So, evolution EXPLAINS facts... it does not INVENT facts... and its 'explanatory power' is unprecedented, so far as theories go. But insofar as science is concerned, evolution is 'fact'.

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"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'" ~ Stephen Jay Gould
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'Intelligent design' is not a 'theory'... it has no explanatory power, it makes no predictions that can be verified by experiment or observation. It is a 'red herring'... a 'Trojan Horse'... creationism wrapped up in a pretty package, and re-labeled 'science'. The crux of Intelligent Design is to say that at the point where science just starts to get interesting, we throw up our hands and declare "That's too complicated. God must have done it." It is specifically intended to UNDERMINE science, in general, and evolution, in particular. A part of the strategy is to create, among the scientifically naive, the ILLUSION that there is a scientific controversy about evolution when, in fact, there is none. This devious strategy is laid out in writing, in the 'Wedge Strategy':

http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html

A claim such as intelligent design is not a scientific theory, but pseudo-science which is any body of knowledge, methodology, or practice that is erroneously regarded as scientific.

Pseudo-science fails to meet the criteria met by science generally (including the scientific method), and can be identified by a combination of these characteristics:

* by asserting claims or theories unconnected to previous experimental results;
* by asserting claims which cannot be verified or falsified (claims that violate falsifiability);
* by asserting claims which contradict experimentally established results;
* by failing to provide an experimental possibility of reproducible results;
* by failing to submit results to peer review prior to publicizing them (called "science by press conference")
* by claiming a theory predicts something that it does not;
* by claiming a theory predicts something that it has not been shown to predict; or
* by a lack of progress toward additional evidence of its claims.

As you see, Creationism and/or ID easily can be identified with one or more of the characteristics shown above and therefore, cannot be regarded as a part of scientific teaching in our public schools. It would be easy to attribute Intelligent Design to intellectual laziness... but sadly, that is not the case. It is a conspiracy... a carefully crafted and skillfully orchestrated public relations campaign with a hidden agenda, designed to create the illusion of there being a 'scientific controversy' where no such controversy actually exists. The objective is to sabotage science... to reintroduce religion to the public schools via subversion. The saddest thing about it is that a large percentage of Americans ARE intellectually lazy, and generally ignorant of the concept and processes of critical thought. They (enthusiastically) fall for this nonsense.

Answer 10

Religion is dying, thank Darwin!

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