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How technology promotes atheism and agnosticism 16 Articles

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    by Currie Jean

    You are a veteran from the Iraq war. You lost a leg, from the knee down, in an IED altercation. Some robotics engineers at your local University are working on a very special project: advanced prosthetics which would allow...read more

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    by Allison Platt

    I'm a geek. And... wait for it... a Christian! How is this possible? I'm amazed that the answer is so inscrutable to people. Faith and reason are not, and never have been, mutually exclusive. Both are necessary aspe...read more

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    by David Brown

    The idea that technology and other sciences have promoted atheism and agnosticism is sort of absurd. This writer does believe that there is a line, yet it be a fine line, between science and religion. In reading some of ...read more

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    by Monica Giles

    First of all, I think we should clarify the term "geek." The true definition of a geek is a man in a circus who bites off the heads of live chickens. Anyone with an argument as to why geeks are atheists is probably my hero...read more

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    by Linda Shoenberger

    Why wouldn't geeks be atheists? Geeks are people who read and learn. People who educate themselves look for the truth. Religion is based on stories told around campfires and passed on through generations. These are fai...read more

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    by Pope

    Oh yay! Another stereotype to write about. Who in God's name came up with this? So, I guess by your logic, most the jocks are Christians, right? So does that make the emos Buddhist? Or the preps Jewish? What the heck does ...read more

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    by Darian Peters

    There are at least three reasons why technology appears to promote atheism and agnosticism. One of these reasons concerns the fact that the technology itself is often based upon theories that require no mention of a god. A...read more

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    by Stanley Roberts

    I don't get it, most, geeks, atheists? I have been around and have been considered a geek for about 40 years now and this statement is out there. As far as me, and my friends, being geeks that is true; but, the atheist t...read more

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    by Marshall Venn

    Why most geeks are Atheists. LOL. Oh my God. Ok. Why most geeks are Atheists is for the simple fact that they like to think for themselves and they are more analytical and more logical then people with weak minds who a...read more

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    by Dan Gilfeather

    I'm presuming from the word 'geek' that the title is referring to people who work within the fields of Science, Technology and Discovery. Accusations have continually been made that any one who works within these fields i...read more

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    by John Sakimoto

    This is, without a doubt, a simple question with the most complex answer. I am most definitely a geek - I am well acquainted with technology, and spent a lot of my spare time with it. I am not athletic, and although I spar...read more

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    by Seth Keipper

    Arbitrary rules and customs, thankfully, do not hold up well under the powerful weights of empirical evidence and simple skepticism. Any rational person will only approach new ideas that are either beneficial or reasonabl...read more

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    by Krom

    Wow what a concept, most geeks are atheist. Whoever thought this article up thought as many do that religion and science are mutually exclusive. And they had good reason to think so. Judea Christian religions certainly s...read more

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    by CrystaljBrown

    Well the question is,why most geeks are atheist?There can be many answers depending on the definition of the two key words. An atheist is someone who does not believe in a God or a Devil. A heaven or a hell.They do not be...read more

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    by Brian Donohue

    The geeks I know aren't in the -ism game: you'd be hard pressed to find an -ist among them. And this is as it should be, in my opinion. -Ism is the tail of the dragon whose head is fundamentalism, and that goes for science...read more

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    by Trent Mcclure

    Okay, I can see from what has been written so far that the main reason you feel that Geeks, intellectuals, free thinking people, you pick your title, are Atheists, is because your minds are more open than religious people,...read more

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