# Atheist- would you take god away? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 26, 2010, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-would-you-take-god-away/565417 "2010-12-26T11:43:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-would-you-take-god-away/565417/81 "2010-12-28T03:14:52Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Note: can we dispense with the “religion and science and are incompatible”. Or rather, the implication that because a person is religious, they reject all science. Because we know that’s bullshit. Okay? > (Note: I’m not talking about the notion of gods themselves existing. More along the lines of, does believing in a god mean you reject things like evolution, germ theory, the Big Bang, blah blah blah) > > All right? My intention was not to imply that religion and science are incompatible. I was using two very extreme examples for simplicity’s sake. I used to be fairly religious while I was also an archaeologist. Although early human evolution wasn’t my field, it didn’t take experience in that field to understand that evolution is real. I know firsthand that being religious doesn’t automatically imply a disbelief in science. Mostly I just want to live and let live with respect to religion. I don’t know if god exists or not, don’t care anymore and don’t care whether or not someone else does. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-would-you-take-god-away/565417/82 "2010-12-28T03:48:21Z")
Okay, that’s cool then. I’m just sick of the stereotypes – I’m not some creationist freak because I believe there’s a god. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-would-you-take-god-away/565417/83 "2010-12-28T16:28:42Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I wish your friend was a doper who started an ‘ask the woman who believes in ghosts but not gods or religions’. I have questions. I’ll be seeing her later today so I could ask! Sadly she thinks my message board adventures are boring, but then she works 60+ hours a week so fun time is limited. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-would-you-take-god-away/565417/84 "2010-12-28T16:36:25Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > But they are incompatible. Because of its dedication to illogic and due to simply being wrong about everything, religion is an intellectual poison. It ruins anything it touches; the only way religious people can function at all in anything involving real-world matters is by preventing their religion from touching it by intellectual compartmentalization. As for science, the habits of thought required for science are poisonous to religion, as are the facts it discovers. > > Bottom line; religion is incompatible with _everything_, including science. Oh my goodness. Are you being facetious here or are you really this hysterical? Did you just have a really bad experience with a cult or something? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-would-you-take-god-away/565417/85 "2010-12-28T17:11:49Z")
[Mod Note]This is a poll in IMHO, _not_ a debate in Great Debates. Post your reason for your poll answer and(if you must) take the debate elsewhere. Thank you[/Mod Note] ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-would-you-take-god-away/565417/86 "2010-12-28T23:04:27Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > You don’t need religion to show you how good it is to help people. Which is why I did not claim that it was so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-would-you-take-god-away/565417.md?page=4)