This is a response to a very common comment posted by trolls on this fine website. I keep seeing it, and it annoys me, because not only is it misleading and ignorant, you know that whoever copied and pasted it will not come back to read anything that you write responding to it.
Here it is, I'm sure many of you have seen it, or a variation of it:
"And of course atheistic scientists (Dawkins assures us most scientists are atheists) have filled the world with nuclear weapons that could destroy civilization in an afternoon.
After all, fundies may talk about the end of the world... atheistic scientists have made it possible."
I'm going to do my best to take it apart, but I'm still young, so please feel free to add anything that you feel I have missed.
Its clear to most of us that this comment is rubbish. Pure unadulterated drivel. But I didn't know the exact details, so I did a little research to find out more.
What I found out was that, although its true that most scientists are atheist, an interesting thing to note is that the American physicist who lead the team of scientists who created nuclear weapons was J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was Jewish.
Ironic, no?
Secondly, I decided to check out the only 2 cases of nuclear weapons being used (outside of test detonations). These were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August, 1945, respectively, by the American government.
Obviously, the use of nuclear weapons can only be approved by the president. Now, I'm a young Englishman, so if it's not Bush or Clinton, I don't know who was president. I looked it up, and it was a man named Lyndon B. Johnson who was, you should have guessed by now, a Christian.
Ah, another thing (I'm researching this as I'm writing it, so I apologise if it is a little disjointed), the man who discovered nuclear chain reactions, a fundamental necessity for even the idea of nuclear weapons, and worked with Oppenheimer on the development of nukes, was Hungarian American scientist Leó Szilárd, who was.....Jewish.
Now, I'm not going to research every scientist who worked on this project, because I cant find a list of their names, and it would just take too long. However, after a little research I have discovered that the two most important scientists responsible for nuclear weapons were Jewish, not atheists, and the man responsible for firing them at innocent people was a Christian.
Thank you for reading this, I encourage you to add anything that you feel may have been missed, and I hope that the troll(s) who repeatedly post the comment accusing atheism of potentially destroying humanity to comment on my findings, and explain why they spent so long clinging to an assumption, rather than actually looking anything up.
Besides, if we are assuming that ALL scientists are atheists, then we can assume that it is atheist scientists who discovered antibiotics, electric cars, computers, and cancer treatment. I have no idea whether they were atheists, but hey, I'm just trying to find the rules on fact checking here.
Here it is, I'm sure many of you have seen it, or a variation of it:
"And of course atheistic scientists (Dawkins assures us most scientists are atheists) have filled the world with nuclear weapons that could destroy civilization in an afternoon.
After all, fundies may talk about the end of the world... atheistic scientists have made it possible."
I'm going to do my best to take it apart, but I'm still young, so please feel free to add anything that you feel I have missed.
Its clear to most of us that this comment is rubbish. Pure unadulterated drivel. But I didn't know the exact details, so I did a little research to find out more.
What I found out was that, although its true that most scientists are atheist, an interesting thing to note is that the American physicist who lead the team of scientists who created nuclear weapons was J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was Jewish.
Ironic, no?
Secondly, I decided to check out the only 2 cases of nuclear weapons being used (outside of test detonations). These were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August, 1945, respectively, by the American government.
Obviously, the use of nuclear weapons can only be approved by the president. Now, I'm a young Englishman, so if it's not Bush or Clinton, I don't know who was president. I looked it up, and it was a man named Lyndon B. Johnson who was, you should have guessed by now, a Christian.
Ah, another thing (I'm researching this as I'm writing it, so I apologise if it is a little disjointed), the man who discovered nuclear chain reactions, a fundamental necessity for even the idea of nuclear weapons, and worked with Oppenheimer on the development of nukes, was Hungarian American scientist Leó Szilárd, who was.....Jewish.
Now, I'm not going to research every scientist who worked on this project, because I cant find a list of their names, and it would just take too long. However, after a little research I have discovered that the two most important scientists responsible for nuclear weapons were Jewish, not atheists, and the man responsible for firing them at innocent people was a Christian.
Thank you for reading this, I encourage you to add anything that you feel may have been missed, and I hope that the troll(s) who repeatedly post the comment accusing atheism of potentially destroying humanity to comment on my findings, and explain why they spent so long clinging to an assumption, rather than actually looking anything up.
Besides, if we are assuming that ALL scientists are atheists, then we can assume that it is atheist scientists who discovered antibiotics, electric cars, computers, and cancer treatment. I have no idea whether they were atheists, but hey, I'm just trying to find the rules on fact checking here.
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