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Why are so many scientists atheist?

or when pressed, claim agnostic. what do they know that we d...
Miss Anthropy
  05/01/25
transcendent definitions of God are inherently vague and wit...
metaphysics is fallow
  05/01/25
1. Because one wrong move and they’re Ruined. They mus...
cowgod
  05/01/25
Your God can’t save Sony champ
Oh, you travel?
  05/01/25
https://ideology.us/kaczynski/c11.html
cowgod
  05/01/25
materialism and materialists are gay, even when focused on t...
lex
  05/01/25
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white dating coach with an asian wife
  05/01/25
I dont know that I understand what atheism is, or how one ca...
718-662-5970
  05/01/25
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;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.
  05/01/25
Your definition of atheist is a bit strict. It often refers ...
~~(> ' ' )>
  05/01/25
perhaps. i think it would be most helpful to use "athei...
718-662-5970
  05/02/25
all of this seems to adhere to some faith in linearity
theranchman
  05/01/25
i would think agnosticism is the default sciencemo religious...
UhOh
  05/01/25
Big big difference between "athiests" who deny the...
white dating coach with an asian wife
  05/01/25
God as in the benovolent loving God that cares for his child...
Miss Anthropy
  05/01/25
Atheists don’t believe in god you idiot. You’re ...
cowgod
  05/01/25
I'm aware of the distinction, but when people (including OP)...
white dating coach with an asian wife
  05/01/25
You don’t know that and to assert otherwise is intelle...
cowgod
  05/02/25
You don’t have to be a scientist to see that all relig...
,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.
  05/01/25
the problem is theres no other shorthand way to say this irl...
fussy pucker
  05/01/25
Most people don’t care about that anymore. Richard Daw...
,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.
  05/01/25
Wew lad
white dating coach with an asian wife
  05/01/25
Most people don’t know who the fuck Richard Dawkins is...
Coby Dick
  05/02/25
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences wil...
cock of michael obama
  05/01/25
Because they don’t poast. If they had an XO account an...
Billy Buttfucker
  05/01/25
Because Atheists become scientists to try to understand. ...
Drunkard
  05/01/25
religion is for the feeble mind clinging to hoap
\'\'\"\"\'\'\'\"
  05/01/25
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,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.
  05/02/25
My gut take is that atheists are more likely to become scien...
https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
  05/01/25
Ok he went there at least. I believe he got a PhD there. ...
https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
  05/01/25
most are autistic and people with autism don't really have s...
blow off some steam
  05/01/25


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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:16 AM
Author: Miss Anthropy

or when pressed, claim agnostic. what do they know that we dont know?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896012)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:17 AM
Author: metaphysics is fallow

transcendent definitions of God are inherently vague and without observable/attributable effects

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896014)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:20 AM
Author: cowgod ( )

1. Because one wrong move and they’re Ruined. They must follow ALL Rules exactly, even unwritten ones or else people will be like, “what a joke.” If you aren’t sufficiently Liberal then no one will fund your research imo

2. Bc they’re supposed to assume something doesn’t exist if they can’t prove it exists.

3. Bc they aren’t able to look beyond their “job training,” bc they’re proles

4. Because half of them are Losers who bombed the MCAT or Match Day or whatever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896023)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 12:27 PM
Author: Oh, you travel? ( )

Your God can’t save Sony champ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896275)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:28 AM
Author: cowgod ( )

https://ideology.us/kaczynski/c11.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896043)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: lex

materialism and materialists are gay, even when focused on the highest levels of cosmology

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896053)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:55 AM
Author: white dating coach with an asian wife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896078)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:45 AM
Author: 718-662-5970

I dont know that I understand what atheism is, or how one can "be atheist".

Rejecting Roman Catholicism, fine. Or rejecting claims about a personal God, sure. Thinking some questions are still unanswered, or even that some questions will probably never be answerable, okay.

But confronting these questions, e.g.

- I have consciousness and a personal self, that emerged some time in my life that I do not remember. How and why and from where and for what?

- I see certain things come to be and then cease to be. How did *anything* come to be, and when, and why, and for what?

- How can I not even imagine an alternative to the universe being, given that there most likely was a state affairs without it? Or, alternatively, if it just always was, how the fuck does that work?

Confronting these with a fixed, certain and universal claim: THERE IS NO GOD AND I KNOW IT.

lmao. Seems like the most retarded and immature creed ever, arrived at purely to annoy or flip the bird, with zero justification at all.

One either assents to some kind of religious faith, or one does not and holds the questions unanswered. There is no "atheism" apart from performative adolescence

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896064)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 12:31 PM
Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896288)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 12:57 PM
Author: ~~(> ' ' )>

Your definition of atheist is a bit strict. It often refers more broadly to those who lack god-belief, not just those who affirmatively assert god non-existence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896366)



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Date: May 2nd, 2025 8:09 AM
Author: 718-662-5970

perhaps. i think it would be most helpful to use "atheism" as a mode, i.e. I am doing this experiment atheistically, or not employing any god-belief I may or may not have

but atheists are not neutral in practice, they are hostile. they encounter the questions I posed above, as everyone must, and then claim that god-answerers have the burden of proof. But god-answerers do not. The questions have the burden. They can be engaged in these ways:

1. Ignored

2. Answered with reference to a "god" agent

3. Determined to be unanswered, or unanswerable

4. answered foreclosing "god"

atheists are not compelled by 2, and then say 2 people have all the burden, so default is 4

its bad logic, bad thinking, and juvenile in its polemic

honest doubters should rest at 3, and this is in no way "atheism" by any meaningful def

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48898361)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 9:51 PM
Author: theranchman

all of this seems to adhere to some faith in linearity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48897732)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:46 AM
Author: UhOh

i would think agnosticism is the default sciencemo religious stance. you can't disprove god any more than you can prove him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896066)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: white dating coach with an asian wife

Big big difference between "athiests" who deny the existence of God outright (midwit total retards) and "atheists" who believe in God but don't subscribe to any particular popular religion

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896077)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:35 AM
Author: Miss Anthropy

God as in the benovolent loving God that cares for his children, or the force that created everything. Scientists dont believe in the loving God being that actively gives a shit about humans, but they dont deny something created everything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896168)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: cowgod ( )

Atheists don’t believe in god you idiot. You’re talking about Deists.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896204)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 12:08 PM
Author: white dating coach with an asian wife

I'm aware of the distinction, but when people (including OP) use the term "atheist," they don't use it in this way. They just mean 'someone who isn't religious'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896237)



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Date: May 2nd, 2025 10:07 AM
Author: cowgod ( )

You don’t know that and to assert otherwise is intellectual dishonesty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48898556)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 11:57 AM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.


You don’t have to be a scientist to see that all religion is manmade fiction intended to serve a societal purpose.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896211)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 12:16 PM
Author: fussy pucker

the problem is theres no other shorthand way to say this irl without coming off as edgy and aloof.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896249)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.


Most people don’t care about that anymore. Richard Dawkins won the war on religion. Far fewer people in America identify as religious after The God Delusion was published, and religions now have far less power. Check out this graph (God Delusion published in 2006):

https://ibb.co/rfT1Zr6r

Religiousmos fucked with the wrong atheist and he destroyed them and everything they care about as a result

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896263)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 12:24 PM
Author: white dating coach with an asian wife

Wew lad

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896267)



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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:07 PM
Author: Coby Dick

Most people don’t know who the fuck Richard Dawkins is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48898835)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 12:24 PM
Author: cock of michael obama

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

— Werner Heisenberg

https://billionyearoldcarbon.substack.com/p/uncertainty-principle

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896268)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Billy Buttfucker

Because they don’t poast. If they had an XO account and saw how God punishes benzo they’d be believers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896327)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Drunkard

Because Atheists become scientists to try to understand.

Science does not cause atheism, atheism makes one more likely to be a scientist.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48896440)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 5:03 PM
Author: \'\'\"\"\'\'\'\"

religion is for the feeble mind clinging to hoap

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48897078)



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Date: May 2nd, 2025 12:04 PM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,:,,:,,.,:::,.,,.,:.,,.:.,:.,:.::,.




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48898823)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:00 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK


My gut take is that atheists are more likely to become scientists in the first place, but the single most hardcore atheist I know off the top of my head became a successful STEM prof at Berkeley or some place like that before he became an author. I forget what exactly he did but it was serious high level academic shit:

https://x.com/chediak?t=IeExOv5DwdW5a_HvJAjjGw&s=09

He's a 190 dood BTW. One of the greatest Americans of all time among Gen X.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48897749)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:04 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK


Ok he went there at least. I believe he got a PhD there.

https://x.com/chediak/status/1916180431122346223?t=KntRZTYnE3Evb4MdGv_2sg&s=19

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48897757)



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Date: May 1st, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: blow off some steam

most are autistic and people with autism don't really have souls

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5719226&forum_id=2#48897798)