It's a big, fat myth that all scientists are religion-hating atheists

[Evoman]

71. Only an idiot would believe in this "myth" in the first place.

The same people that believe those atheist professor emails, probably.

Of course there are religious scientists. Duh. Of course not all scientists hate religion. Double duh. Who the fuck ever claimed otherwise?

If this myth was ever propagated, it was probably done so by religious leaders that hate science and scientists. They want to scare people away from science. Because the truth seems to be that if you are taught science and embrace it, your chances of being a faithful believer decrease. You can be a religious scientist, but it becomes harder....harder to reconcile faith with the scientific method, harder to suppress applying what you know about evolution to religious origin stories.

When I was in grad school, the majority of other grad students in physics, biology and chemistry who I knew personally were not religious. Some of them were vaguely "spiritual", but few were outright religious. But religious scientists did exist. One of the biologists was actually Mormon.