Atheism is whack

@redredred It's only a retreat if they use it to support ignorance and condemn knowledge; but they are many religious, of any faith, who also seek to understand the science.

For science and religion each ask two simple but very different things.

@ArishMell only one relies in a Bronze Age superstition and a single, error-ridden book of fables for all the answers.

@redredred Yes, I know, but a belief in a god is purely that and separate from studying physical reality.

Natural objects and events happen anyway, whether or not the individual observer believes in a deity driving it all. I forget his name but one of Britain's leading cosmologists is also a lay Methodist preacher: science asks How, religion asks By Whom. Neither ask Why: that is impossible for either to answer.

Also, I was careful to say not just the Abrahamic religions: science is international and has to reach over all cultures and religions.

@ArishMell belief in god is a silly superstition regardless of the source of the myth.

@redredred Well, I am not religious, but I am not so dismissive of religion because that attitude misses the vital, fundamental nature of probably all religions known, extant or extinct, or surmised from archaeological evidence.