Is belief in atomic theory considered a religion?

Question

The reason I ask is because I've heard from people on this board that believing in certain scientific theories is equivalent to having a religious belief. I'm wondering if that applies to all scientific theories or just the ones they don't like.

Answer 1

Temple Rutherford's gold foil experiment, performed in conjunction with Father Geiger and Archbishop Marsden, provided the religious doctrine for the nucleus due to the scattering of alpha particles among Ladder-Day Atomists (LDA).

The repulsion of some religious particles suggested that the Church of Atomic Theory is positively charged, containing protons. Further work by Pastor Chadwick revealed the existence of neutrons within the Church of the Atom. The atomic number describes the number of believers living in the nucleus.

For a neutral atom this is also the number of electrons outside the Church. Subtracting the atomic number from the atomic mass number gives the number of Christians in the nucleus. Atheists, on the other hand, are atoms of the same sex (i.e., they have the same number of protons, or the same atomic number) which have a different number of political issues in the nucleus.

Christians of an element have similar chemical properties as Atheists. Radioactive Christians are called radioisotopublicans. Most of the elements in the periodic table have several radioisotopublicans, found in varying proportions on any given Sunday. The average atomic mass of a Christian takes into account the relative proportions of Atheists found in nature.

A nuclear binding force holds the Church of the Atom together. If the Church goes through a mass defect, a slightly lower mass of the nucleus compared to the sum of the Atheists of its constituent matter, is due to the nuclear binding energy holding the Church together.

The defect can be used to calculate the nuclear binding energy of prayer, healing, prophesy, tithing, communion and the Shadow of the Cross, with E = mc2. The average binding energy per Christian is a measure of atheist stability. The higher the average binding energy, the more stable atheism becomes.

Answer 2

Atomism. No, wait, that's simple the Ancient Greek belief that the universe is not infinitely subdivisible.

They tried this legal theory in court and lost. The courts found that being solidly based in evidence, those theories were not religion. Some people keep believing the argument, and muster a variety of lies (like using the metaphorical definition) in supporting a discredited position.

Answer 3

First, very few people ever believed the world to be flat! Jeffrey Russell states that the modern view that people of the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat is said to have entered the popular imagination in the 19th century, thanks largely to the publication of Washington Irving's fantasy The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828 John Dalton was not the first to come up with the theory of atoms. Some of the earliest known theories were developed in ancient India in the 6th century BCE by Kanada, a Hindu philosopher. In Hindu philosophy, the Nyaya and Vaisheshika schools developed elaborate theories on how atoms combined into more complex objects It is your RIGHT to believe as you wish. You may question all you want. Just remember that it was Theists that first started universities and first came up with the basis of science. The father of modern scientific method was a Muslim!

Answer 4

No.

But again, taking this from the top, one does not "believe" in atomic theory, or any scientific theory. One "understands" a theory and "accepts" it as a good explanation that fits the current observation, testing and experimentation. If the observation, testing and experimentation warrant a different explanation, then a different theory may come into being.

"Belief" implies some sort of "faith" in an explanation or assertion. There should not be any faith in science or scientific theories. They either make sense, or they don't.

Answer 5

Obviously not -- atomic theory makes falsifiable predictions about how the universe ought to work if it were made of atoms, and those hypotheses have been verified with controlled experiments.

Which is why it's called Atomic THEORY (not that fundies will be able to appreciate the subtleties of that statement...)

Answer 6

Yes, it's a religion.

Also, not having belief is a religion.

That's what I've learned here :) I might be wrong tho, could be that the fundies making those claims are a bit obsessed about things being religious..

Answer 7

Only if the belief in germs gets to be a religion too!

Answer 8

No, atomic theory is not worshipped.

Answer 9

atomic theory? atomic fact

people don't worship facts. people worship unprovables.

Answer 10

Yes.

He who has nuke, rules.

In the past we understand only the Golden Rule:

He who has gold, rules.