This was just a random survey that I wanted to check curiosity with. I was wondering if sci-fi fans were more analitical from seeing how science can be, to quote Arthur C. Clark, indistinguishable from magic. Another thread is free to be started, or this one can continue for a debate. As a good debate starter, I'll state one main reason for atheism: Religion has always been about what we don't understand. Supporting facts that someone will eventually pick apart in some way shape or form: 1: The Greeks, Romans, ect. developed early polytheism. Why? Because they didn't know why it rained sometimes but not other times, or why some wives bore no children, or volcanoes erupted. Thus they invented gods to have done each thing. God was developed as an ideology to explain what we don't understand: Life, the Universe, and everything. Oh, wait, that was Deep Thought... 2: How do we know that god might have been responsible for all in the bible? In the bible it states that it rained for foutry days and fourty nights with Noah's arc, and that a rainbow appeared to symbolise that God would never again flood the earth. What if these people merely experianced monsoons, or a hurricane, which lasted a shorter amount of time and were eventually changed to a longer period of time? After such a storm, a rainbow is only logical, and an arc with a few people and animals could easily have floated to an uneffected land mass. I'll have more reasons to back myself up as these are picked apart by the Christians, Catholics, Jews, and other religious folks (I just forgot what religions were mentioned- if I skipped yours, it isn't a sign that I think your religion is lowlier.)