ATHEISM,

FOR BILL MAHER. THERE ARE NO ATHEISTS IN PRISON. FORGET FOXHOLES. THE STATISTICS ARE THAT THERRE ARE NO ATHEISTS IN PRISON.

THE ONLY SIDE THEY HAVE, THE RELIGILOUS IS THAT RELIGION IS BETTER FOR SOCIETY THAN ATHEISM. AND IT IS. BUT, IT'S WRONG. WE HAVE QA PARADOX. IF WE KNOW SOMETHING IS A LIE, BUT IT'S GOOD FOR SOCIETY, WHAT DO WE DO.

\WE DON'T PREACH AGAINST IT. DAWSON, HITCHENS, MAHER, TAKE NOTE. SHUT UP. RELIGIONB IN MODERN TIMES.

1. CHRISTIAN RELIGION DOES MORE GOOD THAN HARM.

2, AND IS BASED ON A LIE.

IF 1. IS TRUE, WHAT THE FUDCK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO ABOUT IT.

AND ONLY A LONELY NERD WOULD GIVE A FLYING RAT'S ASS. WHO CARES.



We found the highest percentage of belief among NAS mathematicians (14.3% in God, 15.0% in immortality). Biological scientists had the lowest rate of belief (5.5% in God, 7.1% in immortality), with physicists and astronomers slightly higher (7.5% in God, 7.5% in immortality).

Overall comparison figures for the 1914, 1933 and 1998 surveys appear in Table 1.When scientists don't know something — like why the universe came into being or how the first self-replicating molecules formed — they admit it.

Pretending to know things one doesn't know is a profound liability in science. And yet it is the life-blood of faith-based religion. One of the monumental ironies of religious discourse can be found in the frequency with which people of faith praise themselves for their humility, while claiming to know facts about cosmology, chemistry and biology that no scientist knows. When considering questions about the nature of the cosmos and our place within it, atheists tend to draw their opinions from science. This isn't arrogance; it is intellectual honesty

.Although it is possible to be a scientist and still believe in God — as some scientists seem to manage it — there is no question that an engagement with scientific thinking tends to erode, rather than support, religious faith.

Taking the U.S. population as an example: Most polls show that about 90% of the general public believes in a personal God; yet 93% of the members of the National Acad